
Flattr Plus: Publisher savior or unwelcome benefactor?
The publisher’s rescuer has apparently arrived — and in a most unexpected form. A partnership between ad-blocking software provider...

Henny Penny and the state of digital marketing: The sky is not falling
If one pays casual attention to marketing and media trade publications, it’s easy to draw the conclusion that the heyday of digital...

Will personal marketing become the new mantra for political campaigns?
The current US presidential campaign has been one of the most fascinating and unusual episodes in electoral politics in a very long time,...

The #1 way advertising budgets will change this year
Brands continue to invest more in digital advertising: This year, spending on digital display ads in the US is anticipated to hit $32.17...

Putting the audience first in digital publishing and advertising
Thinking back to old-school newspaper editors, this idea of relationship building was at the core of their work. The same goes for...

Tapjoy launches private in-app ad exchange, powered by Rubicon Project
“For years, marketers have used Tapjoy to sponsor in-app content for consumers, creating a deep emotional connection with their brands...

IAB releases 2016 plan to develop LEAN scoring, its effort to take on ad blocking
The IAB Tech Lab announced more on how it plans to execute its LEAN ads scoring system that will be used to evaluate ad experiences on...

AdSense mobile Page-level ads now available to all publishers
Google has rolled out two new ad types for mobile AdSense publishers. Grouped under what Google calls Page-level ads, Anchor and Vignette...

How to protect yourself against ad fraud
We have come a long way in our examination of online ad fraud. So far, we have learned: what ad fraud looks like, why it exists and who...

PaperG, now “Thunder,” offering cross-channel creative tools for display and social
PaperG began in roughly 2007 as an automated display ad creation tool for the small business (SMB) market. It evolved into an enterprise...

Report: Publisher ad-blocking detection could be illegal in EU without user consent
Publishers using scripts to detect ad blockers may need consumer consent or risk violating European privacy law. This comes via the UK...

Beyond breakthrough: 5 secrets of seek and share advertising
With the proliferation of content and the rise of multi-device, multi-media multi-tasking, it’s harder than ever for ads to break through...

Google launches DoubleClick Dynamic Ad Insertion to personalize TV ads across devices
Daniel Alegre, president of global partnerships at Google, made the announcement Thursday at the NAB Show, the annual event put on by the...

Majority of users frustrated by disruptive ads, aware of ad blocking [Survey]
The cat-and-mouse game between publishers, advertisers and consumers may soon turn into an outright cat fight. A new global consumer...

How to ensure your campaign uses the best-available targeting data
It’s 11:30 a.m., and a reminder notification appears on your desktop. It reads, “Two weeks until campaign launch — ensure data is...

Is an RTB supply crisis looming? Ad buyers and sellers debate
As programmatic has become the buying method of choice for online display advertising — overtaking manual digital ad buying last year,...

New Advrtas ad platform offers “first fully interactive 360-degree rich media ad” with VR mode
A single-screen view of an Advrtas ad An LA-based virtual reality software development company is today announcing a new ad format that...

Google takes on clickjacking
Among its latest efforts to address online display advertising fraud, Google says it has rolled out new defenses against clickjacking....

The future of digital advertising: Ads that look back
We’re all familiar with traditional billboards and Digital Out Of Home (DOOH) screens in locations ranging from New York’s Times Square...
























