July 05, 2023 Google’s Q1 2024 Cookie Deadline Did Google Violate Its Video Ad Standards? Around the Water Cooler Is Google’s Q1 2024 Cookie Deadline a Mistake? The Google cookie deprecation countdown clock is inching closer and closer to its final tick. While many are testing their post-cookie solutions, some…
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a lawsuit against Amazon, accusing the company of signing users up for Prime without their knowledge. Now, when any website only provides a halfway decent ad experience, they can fall on the crutch of, "At least I didn't sign my users up for a…
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The tech titan Google has found itself in another antitrust debacle. The EU dropped a bombshell, charging them with violating EU antitrust laws. Google's dominance in online advertising has led them down a slippery slope, undercutting their competitors left and right.
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The IAB Tech Lab's 2022 video ad guidelines created a challenging video ad landscape for publishers, especially smaller ones. About 90% of what used to be considered instream inventory was now labeled outstream. In addition, it restricted plenty of quality inventory from being labeled as instream, thus wounding both publishers'…
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The daily routine of an ad ops manager, whether they work for a marketing agency or represent a web content publisher, is pretty much like a board game. Stumbling blocks are all around, even when they do not expect them. Not that ad ops managers should “beat the card” in…
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In Jounce Media's annual report, 'The State of the Open Internet,' three influential market forces shed light on the obstacles that media companies and advertising technology platforms face: demand concentration, bidstream bloat, and bidstream blindspots. How can we level the playing field between the dominant walled gardens and the rest of the…
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The Trade Desk must build ad products that can buy ads on e-commerce websites and successfully pitch advertisers to use The Trade Desk to get a large chunk of the e-commerce spend.
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Publishers on long-tail sites face several challenges related to addressability, including the difficulty of attracting advertisers to their sites due to the lack of addressable data, lower advertising rates, and data privacy regulation challenges.
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Programmatic podcast advertising is gaining market share, and more and more publishers are interested in integrating it within their monetization strategy, dramatically increasing revenue generation. Old-school hosting platforms cannot trade programmatically, but now these efficiency features are available on the platforms that seriously invested in ad tech from the early…
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A recent Association of National Advertisers survey revealed that marketers aren’t as enamored of retail media as everyone thinks. In fact, 88% of brands say they feel pressured by retailers to spend in their channel, with some 42% feeling it’s just a cost of doing business. Some marketers hint that…
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