Powered by: March 30, 2022 Are Ad Tech Players Causing Pubs Headaches? TLDR: Get Started on Your Identity Resolution Strategy Nielsen Lives to See Another Upfront Affiliate Marketing Has Some Answers for Publishers Are Ad Tech Players Causing Major Woes? Middlemen aren't always helpful and can actually cause more…
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Powered by: November 30, 2021 Could CMA Commitments Delay Cookie Cutoff Further? The Long Goodbye to Third-Party Cookies Should Pubs Up Their Influencer Collabs? Next Up: Sustainable Advertising Ad Tracking Ending to Come Sooner Or Later The ICO’s (Information Commissioner’s Office) outgoing commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, posted a scathing opinion…
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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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The burden of cost for preemptively identifying and blocking bad ads lies solely at the feet of the publisher. And because this approach often means that blocked ads don’t get filled at all, revenue cannot be recovered. Malvertisers, on the other hand, don’t stand to lose a thing – their…
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August 17, 2021 NY Times Goes All in on Newsletters User-Agent String Deprecation Delayed, But Soon NPR Debuts Real-Time Diversity Tracker NYT Goes All in on Tiered Newsletters Image sourced from the NYTimes The New York Times is banking on newsletters to continue elevating its subscriber base. Approximately one-third of…
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Google released the timeline for the Privacy Sandbox and is finally bidding adieu to third-party cookies in 2023— maybe it's for real this time. This estimated timeline is based on origin trials, Privacy Sandbox use cases, readiness at scale, and ending support for third-party cookies. Chrome will continue to update…
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In preparation for our upcoming webinar with Permutive: Vox Media’s Approach to a Changing Media Landscape, Tuesday, April 27, 1 PM ET, (Register now!), I spoke with Michael Ogunjobi, Customer Success Lead, Permutive, about how publishers can fully maximize the value of their first-party data and demonstrate that value to…
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Now that ad spend is starting to pick back up, sellers and buyers have an eye toward the future. What will happen when the cookie crumbles? What will take its place? What will become of mobile attribution? Will OTT and CTV continue to rise? Oh, so many questions. Well, here's…
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October 20, 2020 IAB Europe Fails GDPR Standard Ecommerce on the Rise Ad Tech IPO Rumors Abound TCF Fails GDPR Standard Image sourced from Twitter This is big news y’all. The Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD-GBA) has conducted an investigation of the IAB and its Transparency Consent Framework and found…
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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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