Monthly Archives: January 2017

  • Display Advertising Statistics for Different Types of Digital Ads
Original Article: smallbiztrends.com We’ve collected these display advertising statistics from a variety of sources. If you’re unsure of the differences between the different types of display advertising, there’s an explanation beneath the statistics. Last updated: January 22, 2017 Banner Ads...
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  • Yahoo Beats Expectations, but Pushes Back Verizon Deal
Original Article: www.itproportal.com Yahoo reported better-than-expected revenues and profits during Q4 2016, surpassing Wall Street estimates to grow revenues 15 per cent year-on-year, but the spectre of two large-scale data breaches continues to hang over the firm, which has pushed...
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  • Mobile and ‘partial ad blocking’ will run riot in 2017
Original Article: www.itproportal.com  It wasn’t just the news of Trump and Brexit that dominated headlines in 2016 – adblocking also remained high on the news agenda after experiencing a roller-coaster year. Murmurs among the industry claimed that 2016 would represent...
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  • Digital advertising: “We need to clean up our act of how ads are served,” says Unruly’s Vijay Kunduri
Original Article: www.financialexpress.com Digital advertising is the buzzword with brands and ad tech platforms building various performance metrics to engage customers through video ads and target purchase intent. With India being a key growth market in this space, it didn’t...
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  • A Vision of Viewability for 2017
Original Article: performancein.com If you’ve got to see it to believe it, you’ve certainly got to see it to be influenced by it. Or at least that’s what advertisers assert in their continued quest for enhanced viewability. Viewability is now...
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  • The global state of fake news in 5 charts
Original Article: digiday.com It has been an interesting start to the new year. Donald Trump is president, and fake news is a widely discussed phenomenon. Although the exact definition of “fake news” has been severely distorted as people (including Trump...
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  • The Russian Methbot Scam Is Just the Tip of the Ad Fraud Iceberg
Original Article: fortune.com Estimates are that more than $7 billion a year is lost to fraudulent traffic and bogus clicks. In what appears to be the largest digital advertising scam in history, a group of Russian hackers reportedly built a...
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Original Article: www.forbes.com What do firm leaders think will happen to marketing this year? To find out, I turned to CEOs who represent a variety of different industries and companies. Marketers will begin focusing on PR tech: Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer, CEO, AirPR...
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  • Does the uncovering of Methbot fraud spotlight a glitch in the industry’s ability to self-govern?
Original Article: www.thedrum.com The federal action the only way to tackle ad fraud The ad industry’s ability to self-govern has been pulled into question after the uncovering of a global fraud operation, allegedly the biggest ad fraud in history, was...
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Original Article: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk The digital ad space will continue to grow and prosper in 2017, but certain risks. There will be more opportunities for ad placements within mobile apps and mobile messaging programs, but at the same time fake ad...
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