
Digital billboard ads for Virgin Train display live travel times in the UK
Digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising has taken another step toward becoming a fully online medium, following a UK-based campaign this...

RevJet launches a ‘creative operating system’ with point solutions as installable apps
In 2015, RevJet launched its Creative Side Platform (CSP) for creating and testing online ad variations at scale. This week, the San...

IAB sets up Blockchain Working Group for advertising
Blockchain, which is auditioning for as many future jobs as possible, is now closer to being accepted in the advertising community,...

Thunder boosts personalization and performance following Adacus acquisition
Creative management platform Thunder has announced it has completed its purchase of AI-powered targeting platform Adacus — and, as a...

iOS 11 will accelerate the need for cookie-less tracking
Apple’s new iPhone 8 is out in the wild, but the most significant impact for marketers came months earlier with the unveiling of iOS 11...

IAB Tech Lab’s new draft OpenRTB 3.0 is designed for the future of advertising
This week, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Technology Lab released for comments a new draft of its OpenRTB framework that is...

RhythmOne buys YuMe for $185 million
Ad exchange RhythmOne announced this week it is buying video ad platform YuMe, creating what the companies said will become a top-ranked...

The duopoly dilemma: Is it worth buying digital media beyond Facebook and Google?
from $59.6 billion to $72.5 billion) last year, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau. You also may have heard the bad news:...

Forrester Wave: Social ad tech tools are still an ‘immature’ category
From the website of ad tech tool AdEspresso, acquired by social management platform Hootsuite in February Forrester is out this week with...

Narrativ marries affiliate links with real-time auctions
The basic model for affiliate links is fairly straightforward. Inside or near an article, a link allows a reader to buy a related...

IAB releases its first ‘Podcast Playbook’ guide for marketers
The podcast has taken another step toward becoming just another marketing channel, with the release this week of the Interactive...

ShareIQ can now generate ad-targeting segments of users who have interacted with brand images
For many brands, the web has become the Visual Web, where images reign as the key currency of communication. To help brands take...

How the Internet of Things changes everything
In fact, BI Intelligence, in a 2015 report, estimated that more than 34 billion devices will be connected to the internet globally by...

Can blockchain satisfy GDPR’s user data protection requirements for targeted ads?
Next spring, GDPR could upset everything in digital marketing. That’s because, when the European Union’s General Data Protection...

ironSource’s new Ad LTV Prediction tool shows app ad revenue trends across ad networks
Supply-side ad mediation platform for app developers ironSource is out with a new tool for visualizing revenue trends from nearly two...

Demystifying AI: Understanding the human-machine relationship
The artificial intelligence of today has almost nothing in common with the AI of science fiction. In “Star Wars,” “Star Trek” and...

Even Financial launches tool to semi-automate financial compliance for online ads
Compliance-at-scale is a growing need for marketers, given the Federal Trade Commission’s rulings on influencers and the coming of the...

Martech and ad tech: Challenges and opportunities
The industry is abuzz with discussion about the unification of ad tech data with data from other marketing technologies. For some, a...

Is your demand-side platform real or fake?
I previously covered why marketers should demand transparency from their partners. Transparency is an unstoppable force because it roots...
























