
IAB Tech Labs starts to replace VPAID with more interactive SIMID ad specs
IAB Tech Lab has begun the process of replacing VPAID (Video Player Ad Interface Definition) with SIMID (Secure Interactive Media...

Privacy-centric browser Brave launches its twist on display ads
Brave Ads display as browser notifications. Brave, the browser created by Mozilla founder Brendan Eich, comes with built-in ad blockers...

Tappx offers free hosting for app developers’ app-ads.txt files
Tappx has launched a new solution for mobile app developers who don’t have a website to host app-ads.txt files. The company has set up a...

Pump up the power of your display ads
As the web’s oldest form of advertising, display ads have long been a standby for brands. However, over the last several years, consumers...

Google, Facebook ad gains continue to shrink what’s left for everyone else, says analyst firm
With Google and Facebook gobbling up more of the internet ad market this year, the rest of the players are left battling for a shrinking...

Reddit US ad revenues could top $100M this year amid added focus on ad products
Over the past year, social community site Reddit has aggressively rolled out improvements to its ad offerings — introducing native...

Mobile app ad fraud scheme stuffed banner ads with multiple video players
DoubleVerify’s explanation of how bad actors resold in-banner ads as premium inventory. A mobile app ad fraud scheme involving banner ads...

Content may be king, but context is queen
“Content is King-er” concluded a leading media industry prognosticator in the keynote address at the recent Media Insights and Engagement...

Google took down 2.3 billion bad ads, 1 million ad accounts in 2018
Google took down 2.3 billion “bad ads” in 2018, according to its annual report on actions it took to address policy violations on its ad...

Google Ad Manager adopting first price auctions for programmatic display, video
Image: Google With the aim of simplifying programmatic buying, Google Ad Manager will start transitioning publisher inventory to a first...

Video comes to Google responsive display ads
New responsive display ads combinations report now available. Now you can add YouTube video assets to Google responsive display ad (RDA)...

Addressable TV gets a boost as Nielsen buys Sorensen Media
Nielsen announced Thursday that it will acquire Sorensen Media as a step toward providing an end-to-end addressable TV ad delivery...

Digital ad spending to top traditional for first time
Digital ad spending in the U.S. will exceed traditional ad spending in 2019, according to a forecast out Wednesday by eMarketer. Much of...

Google touts ROI of AMP display ads, adding they perform best on AMP web pages
Display ads created using the open source (Google-led) Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) framework perform better on AMP pages than on...

Oracle discovers another major fraud operation affecting Android users and mobile advertisers
A major new mobile ad fraud operation affecting Android phones, mobile apps and advertisers on the platform was revealed Wednesday by...

Google won’t block ad blockers after all
Last month Google was set to move forward with a change that would have disabled most blocking and content filtering capabilities of...

IAB names direct-to-consumer brand to board seat for first time
For the first time, a brand leader will sit on the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) board of directors, the industry trade group...

Why ARF thinks marketers should reconsider their personalization strategy
At a time when technology is enabling marketers to inch ever closer to one-to-one marketing, one of the industry’s most highly respected...

Google Display ads have evolved: What’s next for display?
Do you remember that? It’s the infamous “punch the monkey” ad, and it’s one of the earliest examples of display advertising. Back then,...