Posts filed under: Ad Tech

  • Cash Conversion – A Secret to Google and Facebook’s Success
Apple is the case study for mastering the cash conversion cycle. Last year, the company collected money from consumers 86 days before they paid their vendors. Because they’ve found a way to get paid before they have to pay, they...
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“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Steve Wadsworth, president and CEO at Tapjoy . Many in digital advertising have been calling for the end of...
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  • Facebook unveils new analytics features, including a tool to track the omnichannel journey
Facebook introduced new analytics features — including a tool to track customer journeys through multiple channels — on Tuesday at its F8 developer conference. Journeys is the most notable addition to Facebook’s currents analytics tools. It provides omnichannel data and...
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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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The day after David Bowie died in January 2016, Pandora users generated 200,000 Bowie-themed stations. The solar eclipse last August drove a 3,000 percent leap in Spotify plays for Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” Music lasts, in other...
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  • The creator of Javascript is using blockchain to save the internet from ads
This article is part of our series “ Blockchain beyond Bitcoin “. Bitcoin is the beginning, but it’s far from the end. To help you wrap your head around why, we’re taking a deep dive into the world of blockchain....
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Yesterday the House of Lords published a report into the UK’s digital advertising market. It includes: a call for a CMA study into whether the market is working fairly for businesses and consumers; proposals for enhancing workforce skills and attracting...
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  • 4A’s Attendees Predict How the Ad Industry Will Evolve Over the Next 5 Years
4A’s Attendees Predict How the Ad Industry Will Evolve Over the Next 5 Years
4A’s Attendees Predict How the Ad Industry Will Evolve Over the Next 5 Years
Almost every facet of the advertising industry is in upheaval, leading marketers to agree on one thing, if nothing else—that five years down the road, the landscape for them is going to look vastly different than it does today. And,...
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Ad tech is not immune to jumping on new trends. Remember big data? These days, blockchain is the latest craze . Interest — if not precise understanding — from advertisers and publishers in how the technology could be applied to...
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