
Display advertising: 3 ways to improve your campaign targeting
As many marketers are well aware, click-through rates for display ads are typically less than impressive. But is that really a surprise?...

Microsoft is newest member of Coalition for Better Ads
Microsoft has joined the ranks of the Coalition for Better Ads, the group of media companies, industry groups and brands that formed last...

Ad industry groups rail against Apple’s new cookie-blocking solution in Safari 11
In a fiery response, the major digital marketing trade organizations are speaking out against Apple’s plan to update the way it plans to...

Personalization 2.0: Transform your marketing from segmentation to intent-driven personalization
But what does it mean to personalize your marketing? Many marketers mistakenly think that personalization means segmentation. But...

Google Display Network: An optimization and fraud-avoidance guide
I recently finished a campaign audit for a client who spent tens of thousands of dollars advertising on the Google Display Network (GDN)....

Storytelling for action: Why brands need to tell a complete story
So concluded marketing professors Keith Quesenberry and Michael Coolsen, based on their two-year study published in the “Journal of...

Advertisers are ready to get ‘aggressive’ about enforcing Ads.txt adoption
Ad buyers are dissatisfied with publishers’ slower-than-expected adoption of the industry’s anti-fraud initiative, Ads.txt. Now they are...

Avoid programmatic fraud with these strategic tips
fraud. A recent study commissioned by two WPP media buying agencies estimated that fraudulent traffic could cost digital advertisers...

Yelp introduces custom (local) audiences for national advertisers
Roughly two years ago, Yelp phased out its display ad unit for national advertisers. Earlier this week, the company introduced a new...

Google launches AdSense User First beta to test if fewer ads & better targeting can make more m
A small number of AdSense and AdMob publishers started receiving invitations to Google Adsense’s User First beta program this week. The...

GroupM sheds light on its updated viewability standards for display & video ads
WPP’s GroupM, the world’s biggest media buyer, announced new, heightened standards for ad viewability last week and is now sharing more...

Google hates obnoxious pop-up ads: Here’s why you need to look at the ads on your site
Google doesn’t like overly intrusive ads like pop-ups on websites. This sounds counterintuitive, doesn’t it? After all, Google makes its...

‘Larger than usual’ ad fraud on exchanges prompts Google to offer advertiser refunds
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Google is providing refunds to some advertisers that used DoubleClick Bid Manager...

P&G fought online advertising, and online advertising won
$140 million of digital spend in a single quarter. P&G Chief Financial Officer Jon Moeller noted that the reduction had two causes: [We...

Quora launches retargeting for advertisers
Quora’s newly launched ads platform now supports retargeting ads on the question-and-answer network. It was announced Thursday that Quora...

Tuning into podcast sponsorship, programmatic audio and native audio sponsorships
A major plus for this kind of advertising is that it’s been largely immune from many major issues affecting other forms of digital...

Google’s big gamble on ad blocking and why you should care
Ads ambush you from all sides. The sidebar spins out in front of you. A banner flashes in excitement. You scroll halfway to a video and...

TAG sees its ad tech verification program aimed at cleaning up digital advertising grow rapidly
The industry group formed to secure and weed out fraud in the digital advertising supply chain says it has seen a jump in companies...

It’s not just hype: Real changes to consumer behavior are driving adoption of data-driven creative
A brand-new media agency, Omnicom’s Hearts and Sciences, shocked the industry by winning P&G and AT&T accounts based on a promise of...
























