
Adobe Primetime adds TV Media Management Platform
From Adobe Adobe Primetime took a major evolutionary step today toward the programmatic- and audience-based future of ads on multi-screen...

Google agrees to change when it scans emails for ad targeting
Google agreed to change its email scanning practice on Tuesday as part of a court settlement, The Verge first reported. The changes...

No targeting in Google Display & Video ad groups? Ads can soon show across Google Display Netwo
Google has announced that, beginning in January, ad groups in Google video and display campaigns that do not have any targeting set at...

Ad tech firm Dstillery enters B2B arena with intent data from Bombora
Bombora makes its living by tracking what products B2B users research on the web, and then it provides data so others can market to those...

Digital or TV? The false dichotomy in advertising
With each team using their annual sales periods — the TV Upfronts and the digital NewFronts — as an opportunity to cast doubt on the...

“Power of search” keeps Google #1 with WPP; Facebook poised for #2; Snapchat gaining
Copyright by World Economic Forum/Photo by Michael Wuertenberg What keeps Google at the top of WPP’s media supplier list? “The power of...

How you should be leveraging native ads in 2017
native advertising needs to be a discussion point. While many interpretations exist, the most agreed-upon definition of native...

Publishers are not detecting most ad blockers, says company behind new ad blocking solution
This week, marketing tech company Streamwize is releasing a new product to help publishers deal with ad blocking users. But, in preparing...

The truth about transparency in digital advertising
Look through the websites of technology providers throughout the advertising ecosystem, and you’re bound to see some variation of the...

TAG awards first ‘Certified Against Fraud’ seal to 16 digital advertising companies
The Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) awarded the “Certified Against Fraud” seal to Amobee, comScore, DoubleVerify, Dstillery,...

Lotame launches what it calls ‘first TV data management platform’
In March, data management platform (DMP) Lotame announced Smart TV Audiences, where it partnered with an unnamed smart TV maker to get...

The future of digital advertising creativity and how to get ready
“So what does this mean for advertising creativity?“ I had been presenting the “MAdTech” mash-up — the intersection of media, advertising...

IAB shares updates for MRAID, including viewability & audibility measurement
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Tech Lab released updates for the Mobile Rich Media Ad Interface Definition (MRAID) for public...

The truth about channel marketing: everything you have been told is wrong
There is no more powerful concept in go-to-market strategy than the channel. The idea of hundreds or thousands of independent partners...

Size matters: 5 tips for creating LEAN programmatic creative
Advertisers and publishers have no choice but to go “LEAN” — lightweight, encrypted, AdChoices-supported and non-invasive. Why? There’s...

Vistar adds first-party data to out-of-home (OOH) ad targeting through LiveRamp partnership
Step by step, out-of-home (OOH) advertising is becoming just another kind of online inventory. This week, New York City-based Vistar...

Pathmatics acquires WhatRunsWhere
A still image from a video on the WhatRunsWhere site Santa Monica, California-based Pathmatics allows enterprises to monitor their...

Nielsen: Mobile targeting is getting better, particularly when targets are narrower
The benchmarks report looks at on-target percentage, which is the percentage of ad impressions delivered to the targeted audience out of...

Update: FTC holds Warner Brothers accountable for online influencer deception
Mark Van Scyoc / Shutterstock.com Following a brouhaha in July after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) spanked Warner Brothers for...