Posts filed under: Programmatic

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...
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Frustration among advertisers has boiled as it relates to the inability and unwillingness of many ad tech players to truly address and resolve the transparency and fraud problems that have been plaguing the digital programmatic advertising industry in recent years....
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“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...
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The arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation’s enforcement May 25 has hurled the digital media and advertising industries into a tailspin. Since the early hours of May 25, ad exchanges have seen European ad demand volumes plummet between 25...
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  • 4 signs bots may be stealing your ad dollars
The following is a guest post from Michael Tiffany, president and co-founder of White Ops . It used to be easy to tell when non-human traffic was sapping your ad dollars. Until recently, bots almost exclusively lived in data centers...
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“PLEASE don’t leave us.” From the dozens of e-mails in people’s inboxes, begging them to give their consent to be sent further messages, you could deduce that the senders of newsletters and the like are hardest hit by the European...
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Mobile ad fraud is in the midst of a period of rampant innovation. That was the takeaway of a recent report from app marketing firm Adjust, which found that the rate of fake app-installs, clicks, attributions and other mobile scams...
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  • IAB: 65% of marketers move all or parts of programmatic buying in-house
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...
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  • Top 10 Global Advertisers Issue Charter to Clean up Digital Advertising
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...
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  • How the Math Men Overthrew the Mad Men
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...
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