As ClutchPoints celebrates a decade, they launched a new initiative centered around HBCU sports coverage. HBCU student journalists and athletes will run the new vertical, allowing them to publish stories and curate content for video, social media, and podcasts. The students participating in the HBCU initiative will receive financial compensation,…
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CTV is coming to the forefront as a performance channel, and marketers should seize this tremendous opportunity. With the ability to pursue incredibly segmented audiences and fully measure the ROI on CTV campaigns, marketers will have more control than ever before over their CTV ads — if they lay the…
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IAB Tech Lab believes there won't be a single "silver bullet" technology or approach that makes sense for everyone. Instead, advertisers and publishers will need to rally around a portfolio of approaches to addressability that individually meet different functional needs and business use cases.
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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.
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AdMonsters has been talking so much about how hot newsletters are that we just had to jump on the trend! We follow a lot of ad-tech industry and adjacent news, and not every happening makes it on AdMonsters.com or to our events. So we launched a weekly newsletter—The Wrapper—featuring a…
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Developers on a recent GitHub thread are really heated about the Chromium project freezing the User-Agent String that provides the advertising ecosystem with metadata about a user's browser name and version, operating system, and rendering engine used\. Many fear they'll no longer have the ability to access this information to…
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It’s a weird time for the cookie. Villainized by privacy advocates and the media, the itty bitty sticky bits of data seem to be more popular than ever when it comes to digital ad targeting and tracking.Publishers are increasingly meeting cookie-obsessed advertisers on the programmatic playing field via private exchanges,…
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At Ad:Tech NYC, Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson and Simulmedia CEO Dave Morgan took the stage for a wide ranging discussion on the future of digital media. The Op-Ed covered the core of that discussion in a piece last week, and also tracked down Morgan after the chat for a brief…
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OPS Market's Focus On Session leader Doug Conely takes us through the concept of 'audience efficiency' in his latest blog post. Read Tribal Fusion's Senior Director for Data & Targeting ‘s piece here. If you’ve heard me speak, internally and externally, over the last few months you will have heard…
Read MoreOnline publishers have a lot of problems to think about when it comes to ad management. To maximize their revenue, they have several levers to pull including inventory pricing tiers and models as well as sales channels (direct sales vs. ad networks and exchanges). Yet, marketers are buying audience. So…
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