
SMX Advanced recap: Audience targeting in a privacy-centric world
Here is a recap of SMX Advanced session Audience Targeting In A Privacy-Centric World. The speakers shared new developments in audience...

How dynamic creative will (finally) reach the tipping point
In an industry where a lot of lip service is paid to one-to-one marketing and tailoring a brand’s advertising to the individual, far too...

Native isn’t display. Stop treating it like it is.
Don’t get me wrong — I’m an optimist. Learning from our previous mistakes is the key to future success, as long as they are not repeated....

Programmatic is an amazing tool for branding. Here’s how to use it.
Programmatic is not just for conversions; it’s also a valuable part of your branding strategy. Historically, brand awareness strategies...

Programmatic performance marketing (aka affiliate marketing) questions and answers
Within certain marketing circles, the term “performance marketing” is equated with affiliate marketing and therefore associated with lots...

The price is right? Let the data answer that
Programmatic audience targeting has increasingly become table stakes and today provides fewer performance increases than in years past....

Why are marketers talking about taking agency services in-house?
35 percent of marketers have already brought programmatic in-house, a dramatic increase from the 14 percent reported in 2016. And that’s...

GDN or DSP: How to decide
Marketers have lots of choices when it comes to display media; however, the primary choice for many people who are engaged in search...

Recognizing the subtle signs that point to possible ad fraud
The digital advertising industry’s got a big problem, and it’s not going away anytime soon. One report estimated that businesses could...

10 tips to stay ahead in digital advertising
When I first started in advertising, change was incremental, and so was learning. Staying current meant keeping up with the newest ways...

Ad blockers, fraud and developments in programmatic: Our top 10 display advertising columns for 2017
Programmatic ad fraud and big advertisers’ attempts to deal with it remain significant industry challenges in 2017, fueling interest in...

How to integrate display with search and video
Audience data is key to a good PPC (pay-per-click) strategy, and it can be collected from multiple channels. Someone watching or liking...

Why the end of Google’s ‘First Click Free’ is a step in the right direction
pull the plug on its controversial “First Click Free” policy was inevitable, following The Wall Street Journal’s decision to boycott the...

Is establishing a brand-safety KPI a good idea?
brand-safety KPI has the potential to benefit players on all sides of the advertising ecosystem by tracking brand safety at the campaign...

It’s time to slay the internet’s ‘Cookie Monster’
General Data Protection Regulation. The impending GDPR brings about new data protection rules, heralding an unprecedented level of...

The best ads aren’t ads
Still, the power of an advertisement is diminished when the consumer realizes it is an ad. When Peyton Manning won the Super Bowl in...

15 ways to ride the audience wave
If you aren’t riding the wave of targeting options that revolve around audiences, you’re both wasting budget and missing out on what...

Television is dead. Long live video
“Video killed the radio star, video killed the radio star, we can’t rewind we’ve gone too far.” First released in 1979, the famous tune...

Ad-mageddon! Ad blocking, its impact, and what comes next
Ad blockers have already had a huge impact on the digital landscape. This impact could only grow larger if the popularity of blocking ads...
























