
Google announces new anti-fraud initiatives for DoubleClick Bid Manager
The demand for greater transparency and coordinated efforts to eliminate fraud in the digital advertising supply chain has become a...

Find your target audience with YouTube video advertising
billion hours of video content per day on the site. Within that large volume of traffic, advertisers are able to target specific...

Programmatic TV is the future: Here’s how to capitalize on the opportunity
The tide is turning: traditional TV advertising is slowing down, programmatic TV is rapidly expanding, and tech platforms and...

The Trade Desk integrates connected TV buying and measurement directly into its platform
In response to the increasing inventory supply available to advertisers through connected TV (CTV) as more consumers become...

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...

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,...

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...

7 killer ad tips for YouTube & video
YouTube is incredibly popular; Alexa consistently ranks it as the second most trafficked site globally. Additionally, its content shows...

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...

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...

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...

‘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...

Snapchat lets advertisers control the types of content their ads appear next to
Snapchat is giving advertisers new controls over where exactly their ads appear within the mobile app to avoid experiencing its own...

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...
























