
The Power Of Information In Advertising
There have been a flurry of recent articles stemming from a new study by Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) about how ad value spikes...

Google Steps Up Ad Fraud Fight With Spider.io Acquisition
announced today it has acquired the well-regarded web traffic analytics firm spider.io. Google has made significant investments in...

Yahoo Gemini Brings Together Mobile Search & Native Ads In Single Ad Marketplace
It’s called Yahoo Gemini and it’s available as part of Yahoo Ad Manager, the company’s existing self-service ad buying platform. Here’s...

Premarketing: The Evolution Of Targeting
Nothing has evolved more in online marketing than the way we identify and target users. Just a few years ago, segmentation of publishers...

Mozilla’s Firefox To Show Sponsored Content “Tiles” To New Users
Mozilla will soon begin to show sponsored content on Firefox when new users open up the New Tab page in the browser. When users begin to...

Google’s ComScore Deal Bakes Brand Ad Measurement Into DoubleClick
Google has been working on its own measurement technology, Active View, but the industry has been calling on the company to integrate...

Beyond SEM: When You’ve Maxed Your Search Ads, What’s Next?
Advertisers frequently tell me, “If you can hit my CPA target, my SEM budget is unlimited!” This is great in theory but often limited in...

FBX Advertisers Spent More, Saw Conversion Costs Drop 18 Percent YoY This Holiday Season
new data from Facebook Exchange DSP, Triggit, advertisers spent 127 percent more on spend on Facebook Exchange (FBX) ads in November and...

Au Contraire, Ad Contrarian: In Defense Of Digital Advertising
Bob Hoffman is an advertising legend — a seasoned ad executive who has gained a reputation as one of the most influential advertising...

WTF Is A Cookie, Anyway? Do You Really Know, Or Just Think You Do?
This month’s column was inspired by a very brave CMO who bluntly asked, during a recent conversation, “WTF is a cookie, anyway?” This...

Federated Media Sells Content Marketing Business To Focus On Programmatic
Media-seller Federated Media Publishing, which began in 2005 with big native advertising ambitions for independent bloggers, has given up...

Creating & Iterating Today: The Marriage Of Tech & Imagination
In our industry, we acknowledge the longstanding rub between the quant and the qual. We know that the math and the creative imagination...

Online Display Ad Spending Up 32 Percent In 2013, Still Just 4.5 Percent Of $243 Billion Market [Nie
Nielsen’s latest quarterly look at the global advertising market is out, and the report shows internet display advertising grew by more...

The Third Team: 1/4 Watch Super Bowl For Ads; 81% See Them As Entertainment
The National Retail Federation (NRF) and Prosper Insights released survey (PDF) data mostly focused on anticipated consumer spending on...

Google Rolls Out “AdSense Direct” For Publishers To Manage Direct Ad Sales
announced the roll out of AdSense Direct today to allow publishers to implement campaigns for ads they sell direct to advertisers through...

Google Remarketing Ads Broke Canada Privacy Laws, Concedes To Revamp Ad Review System
In the process of the investigation, Canada’s privacy watchdog also found Google’s automated ad review system to have “demonstrable...

Google Launches WordPress Plugin For AdSense And Webmaster Tools
Google has released a new plugin for publishers using WordPress. The official Google Publisher Plugin offers support for Google AdSense...

Old Guard Industries Now Driving Growth In B2B Online Advertising
For the first time, established industries such as financial services and manufacturing are fueling the growth in real-time bidding in...

Unlocking The Tremendous Possibilities Of Audience Data
I don’t think it’s news to anyone that there is more readily-available audience data than ever before. “From the dawn of civilization...
























