Posts filed under: Ad Tech

The growth of digital media has created tremendous opportunities for publishers to reach and monetize audiences across the web. However, the industry’s obsession with scale has brought challenges, such as platform vulnerability and not knowing their audience, leading publishers to...
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  • How viral content became a hotbed of online ad fraud and what can be done to stamp it out
Just weeks ago, Unilever, one of the biggest advertising spenders in the world, threatened to pull ads from digital and social platforms if they fail to eradicate content which “creates division in society and promotes anger and hate.” Considering that...
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This is the third in a series of deep dives from AdExchanger on mobile fraud and mobile data quality, including guides to fraud tactics and threat vectors and practical solutions from advertisers in the growth and user acquisition trenches. Part...
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  • Digital Advertising Vs Transparency: Round Two?
Fraud has always been a huge challenge for the ad tech ecosystem. The market has certain difficulties with it for its lack of transparency and control. Check the list of initiatives that help increase the level of transparency and neutralize...
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In March, Horizon Media hosted a blockchain summit and brought together platforms to discuss how they are working with the technology. The conference was meant to educate the agency about blockchain as much as enthuse its publisher clients. Horizon Media...
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  • LUMA Digital Brief 019 - Market Report Q1 2018
LUMA’s latest Market Report highlights the public and private markets during Q1 2018. Coming off a year headlined by media’s mega mergers, the impact is expected to spur continued consolidation this year along with other market forces. In Ad Tech,...
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By Tom Shields, Chief Strategy Officer, AppNexus Why is transparency important in the programmatic supply chain? I get this question a lot. Recently, I delivered a keynote on radical transparency at the Programmatic Summit in Sydney. The session went well—until...
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Integral Ad Science (IAS) has unveiled a first-to-market technology solution that helps programmatic advertisers target mobile in-app ads that are brand safe, free of fraud and have a viewability goal. The tool is already integrated into the trading process on...
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  • Google Chrome's Ad Blocker: Friend or Foe of Online Advertising?
Google launched its Chrome native ad blocker on Feb. 15 to a mix of fanfare and concern.   The blocker is based on standards set by the Coalition for Better Ads (CBA), of which Google is a founding member, aimed...
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This morning, Facebook responded to the ongoing Cambridge Analytica scandal by announcing a series of changes to its privacy settings—essentially making it easier for users to find them, control what they share, and download and delete their data. The company—which...
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