Monthly Archives: April 2018

Consumer-goods giant returns to Google site after a year away P&G will only run ads on videos it has reviewed and approved Procter & Gamble Co. , one of world’s biggest advertisers, kept its ads off YouTube for more than...
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  • How Data Creates Transparency In The Ad Supply Chain
When one thinks of organized criminal activity, it is often unsavory activities involving trafficking of some form, but fraudulent web traffic is rapidly growing as a high reward, low risk, low effort criminal pursuit. Last year, the World Federation of...
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  • Can Ad Tech Capture the Next $20 Billion in Video Spend?
In just two short years, the market for programmatic video is forecast to reach nearly $20 billion. But buyers face a market fragmented by different ad units, video players and attribution models — while digital-first sellers face the challenge of...
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  • Nearly half of advertisers suspicious of publishers not using ads.txt, study finds
Dive Brief: Nearly two out of three advertisers think ads.txt is a step in the right direction in reducing ad fraud, according to a new study by Oath made available to Marketing Dive. More than 50% of advertisers said ads.txt...
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With the deadline a month away, only 40% of companies worldwide are prepared for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), according to a study released on Tuesday by Crowd Research Partners. The main obstacle is lack of expert staff....
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  • Ads.txt has gained adoption, but 19 percent of advertisers still haven’t heard of it
It has been nearly a year since the Interactive Advertising Bureau Tech Lab introduced ads.txt as a way to ward off certain forms of programmatic ad fraud. In that time, publisher adoption and advertiser enforcement of ads.txt have increased ....
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Brand safety means different things to different brands. For some, even the most kamikaze stunts can be brand safe, but you will never know unless you have a real conversation with the marketer, and you won’t be able to act...
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With the news that global ad spend growth is predicted to slow in 2018 , it’s clear to see that the impact of transparency concerns are continuing to rise. This trend is being driven, in part, by the efforts of...
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  • The End Of An Era; Say Goodbye To OpenRTB, It's Time To Burn It Down
OpenRTB was once a gamechanger. Introduced nearly eight years ago, the protocol was meant to enable real-time bidding (RTB) by providing open standards between buyers and sellers of advertising. But transparency, fraud and brand safety issues have become so prevalent...
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The answer is no, at least not for everyone, said Elgin Thompson, managing director of the technology investment advisory firm Digital Capital Advisors, at AdExchanger’s PROGRAMMATIC I/O in San Francisco last week. A look back at IPO filings of former...
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