
Best practices for a new era of brand safety
After years of breaking news, brand safety challenges continued to steal headlines in 2018. Despite improved dialogue between brands,...

Best practices for a new era of brand safety
After years of breaking news, brand safety challenges continued to steal headlines in 2018. Despite improved dialogue between brands,...

Beeswax funding news underscores a rise in bringing services in-house, faith in CTV advertising
DSP Beeswax announced Tuesday that it has secured an additional $15 million in Series B funding and reported a jump in revenue of 150...

Freedive, Amazon’s free video-on-demand service, serves up new video advertising opportunities
IMDb, the Amazon-owned database of TV and movie titles, has launched an ad-supported video-on-demand service called Freedive. It is...

What is attribution modeling?
Understanding the steps a customer takes before converting can be just as valuable to marketers as the sale itself. Attribution models...

Optimizing for attention: Viewability gives rise to time-in-view metrics, poses challenges
Many marketers have bristled at the MRC standard of viewability requiring that at least 50 percent of its pixels be in view for at least...

Spotify opens personalized ‘Discover Weekly’ playlists to brand sponsorships
Spotify announced on Monday a test to allow brands to sponsor its personalized “Discover Weekly” playlists. The launch advertiser is...

Amazon adopts MRC viewability standard for conversion attribution
Amazon announced this week that is now using the Media Rating Council’s (MRC) standard for viewability when reporting view-through...

Gravy’s ‘location data forensics’ seeks to identify, minimize fraud in programmatic bidstreams
Location intelligence company Gravy Analytics is introducing what it’s calling “location data forensics.” Its purpose is to filter out...

The brand storytelling genius of the Coca-Cola Santa
Since 1995, Santa trades in his sleigh once a year for a Coca-Cola truck and tours the UK, sharing the soft drinks that have become...

3 prospecting features for Google Display campaigns
Google discussed three features aimed at helping advertisers reach new customers with Display campaigns in a blog post Tuesday. Here’s...

Google adds pay for conversions bidding in Display campaigns
Advertisers can now select conversion-based bidding in Google Display Network. Google has announced the availability of conversion-based...

IAB’s in-app ad viewability and measurement SDK hits 2 billion devices
Out just over a year, the Interactive Advertising Bureau Tech Lab’s third-party in-app ad viewability and measurement tool is gaining...

Product pages are the new packaging: Think beyond lower prices to win online
When consumers actually walk into a store, there are a host of high-level expectations that have shifted over time but remain largely in...

The true impact of conversion rate optimization and why it matters to you
In a world with a dizzying number of acronyms and abbreviations, you might be tempted to think: “Do I really need to know about CRO?” I’m...

YouTube drops paywall from some Originals, explores advertising
In a strategic about-face last week, YouTube announced it will drop the paywall from its Originals programming and make the shows...

Feds take down international hacker ring that cost advertisers millions
This week, a federal court indicted eight individuals for their roles in widespread digital advertising fraud, with charges ranging from...

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With the advent of automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence, shifting channel opportunities and more, we are surveying...

AMP Story Ads come out of beta with Google Ad Manager support for direct sold ads
In July, Google announced a beta for publishers using Google Ad Manager (formerly DoubleClick For Publishers) to serve ads in AMP...
























