We’ve all heard the stories about ad placements that make brand managers cringe: ads for respectable brands appearing in terrorist recruitment videos, and the like. Obviously, marketers want to avoid such placements. But that’s just a start. In an ideal world, your ad will be seen by real people alongside…
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What is zero-party data? Ask ten people (well, not ANY ten people; ten adtech dweebs) and you’ll get ten different answers—along with some medium-to-heavy ridicule. Zero-party data is still a relatively new concept (having been coined a scant three years ago), and adtech likes to take its time settling into new ideas.…
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November 23, 2021 Privacy Has A Three-Body Problem Hey Meta, Leave Those Teens Alone WarnerMedia Launching Nielsen Competitor in 2022 Online Privacy’s “Three-Body Problem”? MaxwellMolecule, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons We love to hope and believe that things are sacred and protected online — like one’s privacy —…
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November 16, 2021 Apple's Google Play Store Ad Spend Switcheroo In Search of Nielsen Alternatives Ad Targeting Like the Weather Apple Buys App Ads on Google to Grab Publisher Revenue Photo by Artem Podrez from Pexels Apple wants a big piece of that subscription revenue share, so much so that…
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Whether it's evaluating contextual as a key performance driver amidst the decline of third-party cookies and mobile identifiers, or new use cases—like extending contextual audiences into CTV—there is so much more to consider about the practice of segmenting and analyzing content. So in advance of our upcoming Revenue Strategy Session,…
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November 03, 2021 Apple Didn't Hit Twitter's Revenue Is Spotify Gunning For the Number 4 Spot? Twitter Flies Away from Apple’s Revenue Hits Many companies felt the brunt of Apple’s privacy changes earlier this year, but Twitter was not one of them. Its quarterly revenue went up 37%, causing stock…
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Supply Path Optimization (SPO), aka finding the most direct route to a publisher’s inventory, sounds like an activity that’s best left to the world’s DSPs. After all, they’re the ones with the AI-powered algorithms that focus on winning ad placements for advertisers. SPO actually requires teamwork amongst all parties, especially those…
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October 27, 2021 Is Google Taking Double? Google and Facebook Colluded Against Apple? How Apple's Privacy Changes Actually Hurt Google Takes Double What Competition Takes For Ad Deals? Talk about inflating ad deals. In an unredacted lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York, it…
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The sheer number of proposed solutions to the third-party cookie almost guarantees that there will be no single winner and that publishers will need to adopt a multi-point approach to meet the needs of their ad partners. Figuring out what that exact approach needs to be will require serious testing…
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September 08, 2021 The Duopoly in Hot Water With Sen. Warren Nielsen TV Accreditation Gone Bye Bye Is Apple Making Additional Concessions? Google and Facebook on Sen. Warren’s Naughty List Image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay Sen. Elizabeth Warren is coming after Google and Facebook hard, writing a letter to…
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