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Monthly Archives: June 2018
Despite being engulfed in several scandals of late—especially the widely-publicized Cambridge Analytica scandal that resulted in its founder having to testify before Congress —Facebook reported its second-largest quarter ever in terms of revenue generated in the first quarter of 2018,...
Last October, Facebook announced that it would start requiring advertisers to disclose their identities when purchasing space on the social network. Now, according to a report at Politico , the company is going global with the feature this week in...
Google has undergone a wholesale rebrand of its adtech wares by unifying its DoubleClick products and Google Analytics 360 Suite under the Google Marketing Platform, along with the debut of a new Google Ads offering in a bid to simplify...
What’s agencies’ loss is consultancies’ gain. Consultancies like Accenture Interactive, PwC and Deloitte Digital are all making one core tenet part of their pitch to marketers: If you want to take back more marketing in-house, we’ll help you do it....
Few would argue that the digital ads industry isn’t broken. We’ve come to accept ads as a punishment for using free services, but they’re invasive, annoying, and creepy; they collect too much information, and they can contain malware . Even...
Ad fraud is a major concern in the media industry, being rated as anything between a mild annoyance to the very death knell of programmatic advertising, depending where one sits on the issue. And if you thought this was a...
AT&T has snapped up adtech giant AppNexus in a deal estimated to be worth more than a billion dollars as it looks to bulk up its adtech capabilities, its second acquisition within a month. The pair haven’t publicly disclosed the...
Why Can DAD With 500 Million Users Reshape the Digital Advertising Industry? Advertisement: The word comes from Latin “advertere,” which means “attention, inducement and transmission,” which then evolved into “advertising.” Its meaning is often taken to be “an action to...
Creating a fake account on social media is easy. For the most part, social networks have few built-in mechanisms for readily authenticating accounts as they are created, and users can claim to be anyone or anything they want without consequences....
Three leading UK national news publishers have combined forces to create a jointly-owned advertising platform which they hope will build a “better digital ecosystem” for publishers and readers. The Telegraph, Guardian News and Media, and News UK, which publishes the...
