Google’s reign over search and advertising is under scrutiny, but are the DOJ’s antitrust cases missing the bigger picture? Mike Seiman, CEO of Digital Remedy, explores how AI, CTV, and evolving search behaviors are reshaping the digital ad landscape—challenging Google’s dominance and redefining the future. All eyes this year have…
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The holiday season is a crucial time for retailers and advertisers. However, this period intensifies competition among advertisers, leading to overcrowding in traditional advertising channels and potentially diminishing returns on ad spend. The key to success is creating great user experiences and capturing genuine user attention.
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Will Blueksy dethrone twitter? With a fraction of the following it once had on X, The Guardian is already seeing Bluesky traffic outperform weekly referral numbers from Musk’s platform in 2024, says Dave Early, Audience Editor at Guardian Australia.
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Intrusive ads frustrate 73% of desktop users—more than privacy or security concerns. Discover how digital media owners can tackle this challenge by adopting user-centric strategies, with insights from Jan Wittek, Chief Commercial Officer at eyeo, and the latest eyeo-Harris Poll report.
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Shafi Mustafa, Chief Strategy Officer at ElementalTV, explores how deep audience insights and advanced targeting strategies can help CTV publishers combat CPM pressures and unlock new revenue opportunities amidst a rapidly evolving ad tech landscape.
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The advertising industry holds the power to sustain democracy through reinvesting in quality journalism. Ali Manning, COO and co-founder of Chalice Custom Algorithms, explores practical steps marketers, agencies, and media owners can take to support a free press while driving value for brands.
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With the buy and sell sides constantly vying for the upper hand on data strategies, it can be hard to find common ground. In a heated debate at AdMonsters PubForum Scottsdale, representatives from each camp took the gloves off, trading blows over transparency, identity, and creative optimization.
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Bad actors aren't as sinister as bigotry, but they played a part in the hateful texts sent to marginalized groups after the presidential elections. Data brokers often compile information by harvesting web browsing habits, social media profiles, and commercial activity, merging it with demographic and contact information and bad actors…
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Data clean rooms (DCRs) are hyped as a privacy-safe alternative to audience targeting, but the FTC isn’t buying it. In a blog post, the FTC says that DCRs "are not rooms, do not clean data, and have complicated implications for user privacy, despite their squeaky-clean name."
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As artificial intelligence reshapes the ad-marketing landscape, it revolutionizes data-driven decision-making, enhances creative processes, and paves the way for predictive analytics. In this article, Christena Garduno, CEO of Media Culture explores how AI's integration drives efficiency and personalization while keeping the human touch at the forefront of meaningful customer interactions.
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