
Study: Native ads beat display for driving visits to physical stores
Native ads are more efficient in driving traffic into physical stores than display ads. That’s the main takeaway from a joint research...

Your programmatic platform has an expiration date
Listen up, agencies and brands: the programmatic platform you’re using is dying. Actually, it should probably already be dead. Many of...

4 lessons from a decade of ad tech disruption
Since the first RTB ad was placed in 2010, our industry’s story has been one of rapid, often painful evolution. Alongside the...

How to cut through cross-channel noise using intent-driven personalization
In the world of digital marketing, the ever-increasing number of consumer devices and competing messages is making it harder than ever to...

What you need to know about compliance in the affiliate marketing industry
With evolving laws and policies from the Federal Trade Commission, networks need to ensure that their programs are aligned with federal...

Where does your programmatic spend go?
I’m sharing this partly in response to the recent headline that “60 percent of programmatic spend is wasted.” Undoubtedly there are...

How to keep your brand message from being hijacked by surrounding content
pulling millions of dollars in marketing budget from YouTube after an investigation revealed that ads were appearing adjacent to...

Taykey integrates its Trend Advertising product with TradeDesk and AppNexus
New York-based Taykey, the company that enables ad targeting based on real-time social trend data, announced its first integrations with...

Twitter adds 3rd-party measurement for viewability & audience verification
rvlsoft / Shutterstock.com Twitter announced new and expanded partnerships with third-party measurement vendors on Monday. Moat and...

Ad tech providers are watching closely as Google fights concerns over YouTube brand safety
Kaspars Grinvalds / Shutterstock.com As one of the 800-pound gorillas in ad tech, Google’s actions to assure brand safety on YouTube...

YouTube channels must now hit 10K views to start earning ad revenue
Alexey Boldin / Shutterstock.com After several tumultuous weeks for YouTube over unwanted media attention and advertiser protest over ads...

Google launches Marketing Mix Model Partners program for comparing channel performance
Google has launched a partner program for marketing mix modeling vendors to integrate Google data into their solutions. Launch partners...

Adblock Plus’s parent company buys content micropayment service Flattr
In May of last year, Eyeo — the parent company of Adblock Plus — announced a partnership with content-funding tool Flattr to create...

Google Analytics remarketing lists go cross-device May 15
Last September, Google announced it would start using signed-in user data to enable retargeting across devices on the Google Display...

Timberland & Quaker Oats testing new ad formats from PadSquad to stand out on mobile
New York-based PadSquad is aiming to shake things up in the mobile ad creative world. The firm — platform meets creative agency — is...

IAS on the ad industry’s brand safety uproar: ‘Not sure this is going away this timeR
Integral Ad Science is one of the third parties Google is bringing in to help monitor ad placements on YouTube in the wake of advertiser...

The Brand Safety Industrial Complex: Does anyone benefit from making things safer?
Fifty-six years ago, President Eisenhower warned that the “military-industrial complex” was creating a “disastrous rise of misplaced...

P&G’s Marc Pritchard calls for timeline on digital ad measurement audits
Procter & Gamble’s chief brand officer, Marc Pritchard. When Marc Pritchard, the chief brand officer of one of the world’s most powerful...

Countering header bidding, Google drops its ‘last look’ advantage
Google may have taken away header bidding’s best reason for being. The increasingly popular practice of header bidding arose largely...
























