
Hooked on a feeling: The forgotten factor in online advertising
If there’s anything the recent past has reminded us, it’s that feelings still trump considered thought. This is also true for...

It takes a village: Story creation in the digital age
Most often when we think of stories we imagine singular self-contained narratives. The latest John Grisham novel or the romantic comedy...

Why you should embrace a full-funnel strategy for programmatic display
Lately, I’ve seen more and more claims that the marketing funnel is dead — including from Google itself. Of course, the consumer journey...

Study confirms brands’ worst fears about unsafe content
Photo © Bloomicon / Shutterstock.com Brand safety has been an issue since the beginning of the internet. However in the past several...

AdSense users will have to submit all new sites for verification
What’s new? If you want to monetize a site with AdSense advertising, it will need to be added to your AdSense account for review. Before...

Google responds to large ad fraud operation that utilized more than 125 Android apps
What happened. Buzzfeed’s report says that a company called We Purchase Apps scooped up apps and companies from developers and connected...

Google lets advertisers set custom viewability criteria in Display & Video 360
Google on Wednesday announced the launch of three new measurement features for Google’s enterprise-level ad buying platform Display &...

How marketers cope in an increasingly-skippable advertising environment
If you’ve not seen it, here’s a quick recap: In a not-too-distant future, advertisers charge people credits or “merits” to skip ads. They...

Amazon now 3rd-biggest digital ad seller in US
Amazon is set to bring in $4.61 billion from digital advertising this year, according to a new estimate from eMarketer. That only...

Exclusive: Survey shows social media poised to capture holiday ad spend
So how will marketers develop their approach? To understand how and when they plan to reach holiday shoppers, we surveyed over 260 owners...

4 lessons learned from 200,000 Amazon beauty, personal care product pages
This will come as no surprise to anyone watching or involved in the space. Increasingly, consumers have been opting for digital...

Oath combines its ad tech assets under new Oath Ad Platforms brand
Verizon-owned Oath has unified its ad tech stack under the new brand name Oath Ad Platforms. The effort has been underway for more than a...

As Google opts out of Senate Intelligence hearings, group sets up Google account posing as Russian t
While Google was conspicuously absent from a Select Intelligence Committee hearing on Wednesday, a research group announced it had once...

Amazon streamlines ad products under new Amazon Advertising brand
The company said the Amazon Media Group (AMG) for managed display and video services, Amazon Marketing Services (AMS) for seller ads on...

Here’s why you should crowdsource your programmatic creatives
It’s not often that marketers get to kick back and relax while customers do their job for them, but when you adopt user-generated content...

Google’s political ad transparency report & library offers more accountability around ele
Google is building more transparency into the political ads and advertisers running campaigns on its ad networks. After updating its...

Sizmek unveils unified ad serving platform it says can replace Google’s walled garden
scooped up Rocket Fuel’s demand-side programmatic ad platform (DSP) last summer, Executive Chairman Mark Grether said the merger would...

Our wake-up call to improve an industry
If you change nothing, nothing will ever change. We’re making it our primary goal to improve advertising technology. We’re facing down...

Google allows advertisers to buy ads.txt authorized-only inventory
Google announced Thursday that advertisers using Display & Video 360 (formerly DoubleClick Bid Manager) can now opt to only buy inventory...
























