
Google removes AdSense 3-ads-per-page limit, focuses on content-to-ad balance
Google has removed the policy of limiting AdSense ads to three ads per page. The move can largely be seen as a response to mobile, on...

5 ways digital marketers can make healthier impressions
You spot someone reading a tablet over lunch at a sidewalk café. Would you walk up, wordlessly place your flyer right over the screen on...

Amobee Triggers activates campaigns based on a mix of online & offline signals
Marketing technology firm Amobee, a subsidiary of Singtel, has launched Amobee Triggers to enable advertisers to activate campaigns in...

Why every digital advertiser should demand transparency
The world of digital advertising has a history of opaqueness, stemming from the early days of ad networks. Ad networks acted as brokers...

Adblock Plus says it has already beaten Facebook’s ad block blocking tactics
Two days ago, Facebook said that it was improving user control over ads but also going to block ad blocking software on the desktop. The...

How Verizon’s Yahoo buy will reshape the digital ad marketplace
Since its invention, advertising has always been about scale. The largest advertising platforms, whether they are TV, print or digital,...

Report: Nearly three-quarters of native ads get failing scores
A high-scoring native ad from The Wall Street Journal Native ads can be very effective in attracting reader attention because their...

Research: Five reasons why 100% viewability isn’t worth the cost (by a long shot)
There’s a lot of chatter about 100-percent viewability, and even more slamming the Media Ratings Council’s 50-percent viewability...

Adgorithms launches expanded version of “world’s first self-driven marketing/ad platform”
Adgorithms’ visualization of Albert Ad and marketing platforms are becoming so intelligent, one imagines a near future where marketers...

Does the IAB’s first ad-blocking study provide the “missing stat?”
From the IAB report Earlier this month, I posted a story that pointed out there’s a key missing stat in all the data about ad blocking:...

Google rolls out expanded text ads, device bid adjustments & responsive ads for native in AdWor
d8nn / Shutterstock.com Google has officially begun rolling out expanded text ads. The extra long ads with double headlines could be seen...

Ad industry execs cautiously optimistic Verizon-AOL-Yahoo can take on Google & Facebook
Whether a Yahoo acquisition can lead to even a modicum of “balance of power” in digital advertising is the big question. Yahoo plus AOL,...

Under Bezos, The Washington Post is making its ads “all about users-first”
Gil C / Shutterstock.com When Amazon chief executive and founder Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post in late 2013, he said his motive...

Google announces AMP for Ads & AMP Landing Pages among DoubleClick news
Google made a series of announcements on Tuesday during the DoubleClick Leadership Summit. Not surprisingly, the announcements centered...

3 reasons why digital research is backwards
“Say that again?” I asked, startled. “We don’t pre-test our advertising,” repeated the Fortune 50 marketer. I convinced myself I was...

Why talent was the elephant in the room at Cannes Lions
Gil C / Shutterstock.com A few weeks ago, at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, attendees buzzed about Grand Prix...

Changing the Cannes conversation: Creativity isn’t enough
Gil C / Shutterstock.com Attendees and speakers at the Cannes Lions festival in June found ad blocking to be one of the key topics of...

FTC spanks Warner Brothers for failure to disclose social influencer payments
You’d think that US brands and companies would know by now that if they pay “influencers” to promote a product and don’t disclose that...

The 3 types of remarketing you should be trying
When creating your remarketing audience in Google Analytics, it’s all too easy to slap together an “All Users” audience, or take it one...
























