
Sharethrough’s latest SSP update aims to dramatically simplify ad ops for publishers
Sharethrough, the native advertising SSP, has launched Unified Auction features in its Sharethrough for Publishers platform. The features...

The brand safety problem is bigger than the news cycle — and so are the solutions
yanking their ads from YouTube earlier this year (what amounted to 5 percent of its total advertisers), all corners of the digital...

How Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention works & why Google, Facebook could benefit mo
Apple has announced that the next version of Safari in macOS High Sierra, coming out this fall, will include Intelligent Tracking...

WWDC: Safari will block third-party ad trackers from following users around the web
Among the announcements coming out of Apple’s WWDC developer conference is news that Safari will prevent cross-site tracking. Apple...

Google confirms it will start blocking ‘annoying’ ads on Chrome next year
Two years ago, in response to the rise of ad blocking, Google’s head of ads and commerce Sridhar Ramaswamy said the industry needed to...

The future (and present) of programmatic TV
Regardless of exactly when, it seems inevitable that all TV will eventually be bought programmatically. Traditional TV advertising has...

Report: Google’s Chrome ad blocker coming to both PC and mobile ‘within 6 months’
In April, The Wall Street Journal reported that Google was going to introduce an ad blocker into Chrome. On Thursday, the publication...

Survey shows US ad-blocking usage is 40 percent on laptops, 15 percent on mobile
Some in the industry argue that ad-blocking is motivated primarily by user experience issues (page speed, data usage) rather than by...

For emerging ad exchange NYIAX, it’s back to the future
There are a variety of ways to solve the ad tech transparency problem. But, for a new ad exchange, it comes down to combining an old...

The calm before the storm: Why media channels die quickly
I recall an amazing chart I saw a few years ago about the decline in newspaper advertising revenue. Here it is: If you’re like me, what...

Google launches ads measurement system for cross-device campaigns on YouTube, DoubleClick, GDN
The ads measurement system that Google initially created for analyzing YouTube campaigns now includes data from the Google Display...

Why some ad tech vets have doubts about Havas’ new transparency platform
While a digital ad needs to be clear to make the sale, the digital ad industry has been racking up zillions of sales in ad placements...

Blippar launches ‘first AR digital ad unit’ that doesn’t need an app
Augmented reality (AR) provider Blippar has announced what it says is the first-ever AR digital ad unit that doesn’t require an app....

Publishers: Tell your users what they’re getting out of viewing ads
27 percent since the beginning of 2017, the fact that publishers such as The Guardian have removed their inventory from the platform...

YouTube location extensions, in-store sales measurement now available
Alexey Boldin / Shutterstock.com This morning, at Google Marketing Next in San Francisco, the company is making a number of ads and...

To purge fake ad sellers from digital advertising, IAB Tech Lab launches ads.txt
Called ads.txt, the solution enables publishers to declare publicly which sellers are authorized to sell their inventory in a file posted...

At IAB Programmatic Symposium, digital advertising looks to grow up
“Like Tom Hanks [in the movie ‘Big,’], we have to grow up.” That’s how Michael Barrett, president and CEO of ad tech firm Rubicon...

Ad fraud detection: A guide for marketers
Ad fraud seems to consistently produce news headlines in the advertising world. Half the time it’s people claiming that the sky is...

Google pushes AMP Ads adoption, announces Celtra & Moat integrations
Last July, Google introduced broad support for AMP-enabled ads and landing pages in DoubleClick. Now, Google wants to make AMP the...
























