
Ad-Blocking Report: Nearly 200 Million Users, $22 Billion In Lost Ad Revenue
Ad-blocking software, once thought to be a relatively small-scale phenomenon, is apparently rapidly going mainstream. According to a new...

Building The Business Case For Attribution
If you’re a marketer, you probably know the feeling — You’re looking back at last quarter’s performance, facing the hard truth that a...

Yahoo Ad Network Targeted In Malvertising Attack Seeking Flash Vulnerability
A group of hackers took advantage of Yahoo’s popular network of sites to perpetrate a wide-spread attack on visitors to those sites...

EFF Launches New Do Not Track Standard With Coalition Of Web Companies
In reaction to the digital advertising industry’s inability to come to a consensus on how to or whether to adhere to users’ “Do Not...

Ad Blocking: A Binary Solution To A Complex Problem
There is no free lunch. Everything has an inherent cost, whether it’s in time, money or resources. Consumers have the option to decide if...

Google Database Sets Foundation For Ad Tech’s Master Blacklist Of Bad Bots
To fight malicious activity in the programmatic advertising ecosystem, the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) is aiming to create a...

Nearly Every Google AdSense Publisher Must Comply With EU Cookie Consent, Not Just Those Based In Th
Google has notified AdSense publishers that they must get “cookie consent” from site visitors from countries within the European Union to...

Forecast: Instagram Will Pass Google, Twitter In Mobile Display Ad Revenue By 2017
Instagram’s advertising efforts appear to be paying off in a big way. How big? Big enough to pass Twitter and Google in mobile ad revenue...

Navigating The Modern Ad Serving Stack, Part 4: Open Auction (RTB)
We have finally arrived at the last installment of our four-part series on navigating the modern ad tech stack. We previously covered...

Google Suspends Several Apps After Release Of In-App Fraud Report
Ad Age is reporting that Google has pulled several apps from the Play Store after the release of a report on in-app ad fraud on Thursday....

Study: In-app Ad Fraud Could Near $1 Billion Globally In 2015
Forensiq says its fraud detection platform identified more than 5,000 mobile applications committing ad fraud while monitoring for...

Beyond Search: Bing Native Ads Launch In Beta Across MSN.com
Search query data, contextual signals and actions taken on advertisers’ sites can be used to help target ads on the MSN.com portal. The...

IAB Issues First Programmatic Display Report: US Revenues Topped $10.1B In 2014
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) issued its first revenue report on programmatic display ad revenues in the US on Monday, finding...

AdWords Estimated Total Conversions Now Counts Activity Across Apps And Web
As apps consume more of our time on mobile devices, Google announced it is plugging what had been a growing gap for many advertisers in...

There Are No More Secrets Left In Programmatic, Only Lots Of Work To Be Done
Bornfree / Shutterstock.com “No. Try not. Do … or do not. There is no try.” -Yoda As more publishers adopt programmatic best practices...

Q2 Report: Ad Spend Growth On Facebook FBX Outpaced Google Display
Advertiser spending on Facebook FBX grew 48 percent while display ad spend on Google dropped 9 percent among customers...

Using Second-Party Data To Expand Reach & Improve Your Retargeting
We already know the importance of first– and third-party data. We’ve tossed in this concept of second-party data every now and again, but...

Advertisers Keep Running Flash Ads On Mobile Even Though It’s Almost Never Supported
Source: Sizmek Before assuming advertisers have moved past Flash, notice in the chart above that there were more Flash mobile ad...

Why And How Publishers Will Force Advertisers To Engage Consumers
That model, however, is under threat, and it’s being challenged by internet marketing behemoths like Google and Facebook. The future of...
























