When Mark D. Walker, Co-Founder and CEO, Direct Digital Holdings, started in the media business in the 90s, he heard murmurings that the consumer landscape was evolving to become more ethnically diverse. Black Americans drove culture and wielded immense spending power, birth rates for Hispanic Americans were rising, and LGBTQIA+…
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A recent study showed that header bidding led to a 23% increase in fill rate and a 20% increase in average CPM. With these benefits and more, it's no wonder why header bidding has become a popular and essential tool for publishers looking to maximize their monetization potential.
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The federal privacy battle came to a standoff after President Biden's State of the Union address. Don't hold your breath if you're hoping the two sides are coming to common ground. President Biden reiterated his proposed restrictions for federal ad targeting regulations at the State of the Union. In response,…
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GoodRx, was fined $1.5 million for allegedly sharing users' health data for ad purposes. The FTC filed a complaint in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. It alleges that the drug company frequently violated consumers' privacy by sharing personal health information with advertisers or third parties.
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The IAB Tech Lab has committed to publishing programmatic best practices alongside their quantified carbon impact from sustainability vendors like Scope3 and Cedara.IO, who are part of the working group. To educate the industry, we will publish benchmarks using existing data on supply paths. In the future, we will update…
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Most people relate Web3 Wallets to cryptocurrencies and NFTs. Still their individually identifiable, highly secure, and web-based nature also makes them the ideal successor to email and social media accounts — a new way of identifying a customer online that bundles identity, engagement with digital objects, brand loyalty, and data…
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Lotame announced the launch of its new data platform at IAB ALM. In collaboration with various customer data platforms (CPDs), the tech enables interoperability and data portability across brand and media owner tech stacks. We spoke with Alex Theriault, General Manager, Spherical at Lotame. We discussed Spherical, the difficulty accessing…
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At the start of IAB ALM 2023, incoming chair Alysia Borsa took the audience on a journey where she explored the current state of the industry and what we can expect for the rest of the year. Unsurprisingly, measurement, the cookie apocalypse, loss of identifiers, inconsistent privacy regulations, brand safety, and…
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The lawsuit essentially asks Google to pick a side ( buy or sell, but not both). Its request for relief asks that at a minimum, Google should divest itself of the “Google Ad Manager suite, including both Google’s publisher ad server, DFP, and Google’s ad exchange, AdX, along with any…
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A residential IP proxy network is a network that pays consumers to share their Internet. The network then re-sells those consumers’ residential IP addresses to its customers — companies or users who want, for whatever reason, to appear as if they’re residential IPs within a specific region.
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