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As a marketer, you assume that when you buy digital ads, the ads are shown to humans visiting websites — in other words, the ads load when the pages load when humans visit. But what if I told you that...
“It’s time to grow up. It’s time for action.” Marc Pritchard, CEO of Procter and Gamble, shared these words with digital advertisers worldwide in 2017, and the statement echoes into today’s advertising technology landscape in the dawn of the GDPR...
Private-equity firm Vista Equity Partners has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Integral Ad Science, the latest in a wave of deals involving advertising technology companies that help marketers measure the effectiveness of their digital ads. Founded in 2009...
Dive Brief: Sixty-five percent of surveyed marketers purchasing digital ads programmatically have either moved those functions in-house (18%) or have started to, with plans to continue internalizing functions (47%), according to new research by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) made...
World Federation of Advertisers’ members including Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Mastercard and Diageo issue a bugle call for all players of the complex adtech ecosystem – ad-tech companies, agencies, publishers and platforms – to work with advertisers in an effort...
Once, Mad Men ruled advertising. They’ve now been eclipsed by Math Men—the engineers and data scientists whose province is machines, algorithms, pureed data, and artificial intelligence. Yet Math Men are beleaguered, as Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated when he humbled himself before...
Andy Batkin, CEO of Duration Media stated, “Our network enables publishers to increase their inventory and revenue by 20 percent-100 percent, while guaranteeing to advertisers that their ads were 100 percent in view, with a fully engaged user, in a...
The World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) released on Thursday a Global Media Charter aimed at advertisers that will “create the conditions for a marketing ecosystem that works better for brands and consumers.” The charter follows a data manifesto issued by...
The digital media industry’s latest obsessions are brand safety and viewability. Two closely linked topics born out of the controversial practice of programmatic advertising. Programmatic does serve certain purposes but more often than not it’s about trying to get inventory...
For publishers, complying with the impending General Data Protection Regulation and the eventual ePrivacy law continues to involve a series of trust falls — too many for publishers’ comfort. On April 25 — a month before GDPR takes effect —...
