
“I love advertising,” said no one ever
Last month, I wrote about how the demise of digital is overblown. The industry is indeed healthy and thriving, and its future is as...

The conventional wisdom on ad blocking is missing one key statistic
The conventional wisdom about ad blockers goes like this: Users would stop using ad blockers if they got more value, or less annoyance,...

Royals, relevance and reach: Why both TV and the British monarchy will not only continue to survive,
In an article published by Fortune Magazine in September 2015, 27 percent of Chinese shoppers said they draw inspiration for fashion and...

The path to programmatic peace
Programmatic advertising already accounts for nearly 60 percent of US digital display ad spending, according to a recent eMarketer...

Buying display media in advance or in real-time: What you need to know
programmatic buying. Before you dive into the online tutorials and start on-boarding programmatic for your marketing team, let me give...

Why the digital advertising ecosystem loves native
It’s no shock that advertisers spent $7.9 billion on native ads in 2015 — a number that’s expected to soar to $21 billion in 2018. Mobile...

Scaremongering in digital: Why ad blocking isn’t as dire as you think
$12 billion in US ad revenue by 2020. Juniper Research reports ad-blocking software could cost digital publishers over $27 billion by...

Why ad blockers are not a threat to the online ad industry
A classic scene in Monty Python’s “The Life of Brian” has the leader of a rebel movement asking the rhetorical question, “What have the...

LinkedIn starts officially auctioning off its desktop banner ads
Evan Lorne / Shutterstock.com Remember bookstores. Remember how if you wanted a book you had to put in the extra effort required to...

MarTech Landscape: What are Creative Management Platforms (CMPs) and Dynamic Creative Optimization (
A screen from creative management platform Thunder In digital advertising, ecosystems for programmatic bidding, targeting and delivery...

Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble: Tough times ahead in digital
If there’s one certainty about bubbles, it’s that eventually, they burst. We’ve seen it happen time and again across various marketing...

Forecast: 33 percent of internet users will be ad blocking by next year
The now almost-cliche response to the issue of ad blocking is: “Deliver better ad experiences that consumers don’t want to block.” Easier...

Ad tech evolution continues with Avid Media’s new DSP for content
(Updated 6.27.16 to reflect additional input from the CEOs of Avid and Zemanta) On the constantly evolving ad tech front: London-based...

Google launches AdSense Labs for publishers to test new features
On Wednesday, Google launched AdSense Labs to give publishers access to test newer features, kicking off with two Labs: Show fewer ads...

ABM platforms YesPath, Madison Logic jointly target visitors in their buying stages, across the Web
YesPath is an account-based marketing (ABM) platform that directs the right content to web visitors from a targeted company. When it...

Can you trust your media buying agency?
Trust is the foundation of all relationships, particularly those in business. If you didn’t trust your agency or technology partners, you...

3 strategies to survive the “Adblockalypse”
Poor, aggrieved advertising just can’t catch a break. Even in the good old days, when families gathered in living rooms to watch TV,...

Kiosked launches wrapper so any 360-degree video/still can fit into any mobile IAB ad format
From Kiosked Kiosked, a Helsinki-based company with offices in LA and elsewhere, makes its living primarily by optimizing where ads go on...

Taykey opens Trends Advertising targeting to programmatic
New York-based Taykey is making its real-time audience trend data available to programmatic buyers with a new self-service interface and...
























