
Why building relevant ads in a cookie-free world comes down to context
According to a Millward Brown survey exploring video — the ad format of the moment — 41 percent of respondents are receptive to ads...

ProPublica slams Google for opt-in targeting changes that happened in June
He said. She said. ProPublica is taking Google to task for privacy policy changes that combine web browsing data and user profiles for...

Study: Full-page interstitials alienate users, send them racing for the X-it
Various studies appear to show that people don’t like interstitial ads. Google wants to ban most interstitials following a search click....

Google, Facebook, IAB & major brands form Coalition for Better Ads
As ad blocking has become a bigger threat to the digital advertising industry and the publishers that rely on it, there has been talk...

AdBlock Plus announces new ad exchange; Not with our ads, say Google & AppNexus
This week, Adblock Plus threw its hat in the ad tech ring. That is, the ring that makes money from serving, not blocking, digital...

5 ways ads are killing your site (& SEO)
Recently, Google announced that it was removing AdSense’s three ad unit limit on a page. This decision seems to have been largely driven...

Report: 32 percent of global page views now impacted by ad blocking
While some in the industry are alarmed by ad blocking others dismiss it as overblown, it continues to grow. The latest evidence comes...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

“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,...

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...

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...

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,...

Report: Ad blocking users more than double in a year to almost 420 million globally
In August last year, Adobe and PageFair reported that the global number of ad-blocking users had grown from 21 million in 2009 to just...

Three ways to deliver future-focused digital advertising
Despite last year’s declaration from some industry pundits that the death of digital advertising is here, we think digital advertising...
























