April 14, 2021 IPG Commits to More “Inclusive” Bidding & Buying Contextual Gets a Cash Infusion Brave Browser Blocks FLoC Texas Tightens Reins On Google Antitrust Case Around the Water Cooler IPG Makes Less Biased Bids & Buys Priority with New DEI Hire Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Making…
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April 06, 2021 Should Pubs Even Care About NFTs? Will ClubHouse's Direct Payments Shake Up the Digital Media Ecosystem? Around the Water Cooler...Everything Else We're Reading Could NFTs Be a Boon for Publishers? Image sourced from FutureStreamTV We’ve been sitting on the sidelines watching all of this NFTs (nonfungible tokens)…
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Powered by: March 30, 2021 The Next CTV Land Grab: A Peloton Screen? The Future of CMS Could User Panels Be a Panacea for Digital Identity? Around the Water Cooler The Next CTV Land Grab: A Peloton Screen? Image sourced from Peloton The virus that shall not be named…
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Powered by: March 23, 2021 Google Blocked 3.1 Billion Ads in 2020 Time For Pubs to Find New Normal Around the Water Cooler Google Goes Blocka, Blocka, Blocka on 3.1 Billion Ads The year 2020 really brought malvertisers out of the woodwork. From pandemic-related scams, to #BLM-related scams, to…
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Powered by: March 16, 2021 Are We Really Ready For the Cookiepocalypse? Is Your CMS Killing Your ROI? Around the Water Cooler Are We Really Ready For the Cookiepocalypse? Ad tech is getting confusing AF. Immediately following the brouhaha over Google’s announcement to not support identifiers tracking users across…
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Powered by: March 09, 2021 An Ecosystem Divided Brands Are Hungry For New Digital Ad Options Around the Water Cooler An Ecosystem Divided Photo by Luca Bravo on Unsplash "Are we creating two different ecosystems?" Shenan Reed, SVP, Head of Media, L'Oréal asked Jerry Dischler, Vice President / General…
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March 02, 2021 Podcasts' Future Depends On AdTech Nielsen Releases Cookieless ID What Else We're Reading Ad Tech Will Shape the Future of Podcasts While having a podcast host read ads on air has long been standard promotional practice in the industry, podcast networks are increasingly buying ad tech companies…
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February 23, 2021 66% of Marketers Say Audience Beats Context, Pubs Disagree Virginia Closer to Passing Consumer Privacy Law News You Can Use 66% of Marketers Say Audience Beats Context But Pubs Disagree Lotame’s new report, Beyond the Cookie: The Future of Advertising for Marketers & Publishers, reveals that, while…
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February 16, 2021 Google's Privacy Engineer Defends Sandbox Ads for Weapons Spike Around the Capitol Riots Big Tech Finally Paying Pubs For Content? Clubhouse Craze Google Engineer Defends Privacy Sandbox Plans While the imminent death of third-party cookies has not been exaggerated, Google’s proposed suite of privacy-minded tools for advertisers,…
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February 10, 2021 Google Ad Revenue Up, Despite Pandemic NY Times Unlocks First-party Data Revenue Ad Tech Consolidation Nation Around the Water Cooler Google Ad Revenue Up, Despite Pandemic Image sourced from While global ad spending no doubt took a substantial hit in 2020, Google’s parent company Alphabet posted record…
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