Purple's ability to grow mattress sales 46% in Q1 can partly be attributed to changing consumer behaviors during the pandemic, but there's also a good dose of engineering ingenuity behind their marketing. They worked with AcuityAds all-new illumin platform, an advertising automation technology that offers planning, buying and omnichannel intelligence…
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We caught up with Alicia Ray, Founder of The Ad Tech Collective, a community for Black people in ad tech to network and learn from one another within ad tech. She was a participant on the Minority Report Podcast Live session and she has some great ideas about how companies…
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October 06, 2020 Google’s $1bn News Pub Giveaway Europe's Programmatic Revenue Grows—Despite GDPR Deciphering Google’s $1bn News Pub Giveaway Image sourced from Google Google is opening its big fat wallet to news publishers, with the intention of giving away $1bn in licensing fees over the next three years. The announcement was made in…
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Jig’s up, guys. The new book “Subprime Attention Crisis,” by Tim Hwang, former Global Public Policy Lead for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Google, says the ad tech bubble is going to go pop just like the subprime mortgage market a dozen years ago.
Read MoreAdMonsters October 1, 2020 You Gotta Sell Self-Serve This past week we caught up with a number of mid-sized pubs to talk through a range of topics thanks to ADvendio. It was interesting to learn how the past few months went for them and a few common themes emerged,…
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September 29, 2020 Dotdash's Recipe for Success ANA Pushes for Federal Privacy Regs Can Media Take on the Big Boys? Only 14% of Advertisers Satisfied with Decisioning Solutions Dotdash Has the Recipe for Success Image sourced from Data: Dotdash; Table: Naema Ahmed/Axios While many publishers are floundering to stay alive…
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September 22, 2020 TikTok’s Quite a Prize for Walmart and Oracle Quibi Is in Struggle Mode Putting Ad Tech Under the Blacklight Blockchain Proves Programmatic Potential TikTok’s Quite a Prize for Walmart and Oracle Image sourced from The Drum Although President Trump may have given the TikTok-Walmart-Oracle his “blessing,” the…
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September 16, 2020 Facebook: Open Web Ally ITP Toggled on for All Browsers Political Ad Spend Will Spur Rebound Amazon Closes in on the Duopoly It's Official: Taboola and Outbrain Breakup Ad Blocking on the Decline FB Supports the Open Web? Image sourced from Twitter CafeMedia’s Chief Strategy Officer, Paul…
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We spoke with Jake Abraham, President at Audigent about why he thought pubs seemed a little gun shy about identity solutions, how they should go about showcasing their first-party data as well as how Audigent plans to help them drive revenue by making their audience data and inventory actionable for…
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If Apple's plans to have each app ask users for tracking permissions becomes a reality, industry analysts predict low opt-in rates making IDFA access severely limited to advertisers. All at once, the SKAdNetwok framework has become an important measurement tool, one of the main ways advertisers will receive the attribution…
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