
The best ads aren’t ads
Still, the power of an advertisement is diminished when the consumer realizes it is an ad. When Peyton Manning won the Super Bowl in...

AppNexus, Tru Optik offer first partnership between an OTT SSP and a DMP
Step by step, internet-based TV programs are becoming full-fledged citizens of the digital ad ecosystem. The latest step is a partnership...

Smartpipe looks to solve GDPR-compliant ad targeting by treating identifiers as ‘snowflakes’
A London-based company has come up with a way to target ads that can satisfy both marketers and GDPR. The central problem is that...

Television is dead. Long live video
“Video killed the radio star, video killed the radio star, we can’t rewind we’ve gone too far.” First released in 1979, the famous tune...

After slashing programmatic exposure, P&G began advertising on more sites this summer
In July, when Procter & Gamble reported its quarterly earnings, the company said slashing digital ad spend by $140 million had “no...

Ad-mageddon! Ad blocking, its impact, and what comes next
Ad blockers have already had a huge impact on the digital landscape. This impact could only grow larger if the popularity of blocking ads...

How to identify the best publishers to help you achieve your business goals
Building enduring relationships with the right publishers is fundamental to running a successful affiliate program. To determine who the...

In digital, lack of oversight is a major blunder
backlash against fraud, waste and abuse in digital. While welcome, this development is long past due and may be too late. As Forbes noted...

Google & Facebook among members signed onto IAB UK ‘Gold Standard’ ads program
The UK arm of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB UK) has launched a new program aimed at reducing ad fraud, improving user...

Nanigans launches incrementality optimization & reporting solution
The machine learning-driven solution aims to target consumers deemed likely to be influenced by advertising and limit spending on users...

Using the ‘Russia strategy’ on programmatic
The news over the last several weeks and months has highlighted how the Russian government engaged in a multiplatform social media,...

Adobe Ad Cloud’s first app lets marketers manage ad campaigns
Adobe’s Advertising Cloud is out this week with its first mobile app, which the company says is the only app that can manage advertising...

4As, ANA & IAB push self-regulatory digital ads standards program
Three of the big industry trade groups representing the digital advertising ecosystem are hoping to gain support for a “self-regulatory”...

Adelphic adds digital-out-of-home to its repertoire
In January, Time, Inc.-owned ad tech firm Viant bought demand side platform (DSP) Adelphic. Adelphic was born as a mobile-focused ad DSP,...

How to build an audience of consumers in today’s highly competitive environment
Today, brands market and sell their products in an environment that is more competitive than ever. Consumers are subjected to so much...

Google’s Sridhar Ramaswamy on Chrome ad blocking: ‘It’s the ultimate fallback option’
The only things holding back the flood of ad blockers on mobile are technological limitations, said Sridhar Ramaswamy, senior vice...

Google extends olive branch to publishers, lays out new focus on subscriptions
In a rare joint appearance, Google executives Philipp Schindler, chief business officer, and Sridhar Ramaswamy, SVP of ads and commerce,...

Google test surfaces user data in DoubleClick for Publishers as part of new Insights Engine Project
Google is laying the groundwork for turning the love-hate relationship many publishers have with the company into a love-love...

Publishers need a new definition of UX: From ‘user experience’ to ‘user expectatio
rise of ad blocking has placed new emphasis on creating ads which preserve the user experience. From the Google and Facebook-led...
























