
The Many Faces Of Programmatic Ad Fraud
The topic of advertising fraud in the programmatic sector is a jugular issue concerning marketers today. The openness that allows...

Google To Let Advertisers Upload And Target Email Lists In AdWords With Customer Match
Google is making its move to bring first-party data to search results — and YouTube and Gmail. The new product, called Customer Match,...

Web Overload: Why Digital Advertising Needs To Hit The Reset Button
In “Welcome to hell: Apple vs. Google vs. Facebook and the slow death of the Web,” Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge, worries...

Businessweek Investigation Sheds Light On Giant Market For Fake Web Traffic
Just ahead of Advertising Week in New York, Bloomberg Businessweek’s cover story takes a first-hand look at the market for fake digital...

Study Finds YouTube Advertisers Pay For Bot Views
Bloomua / Shutterstock.com More alarming news on the advertising fraud front. A new study raises questions about the reliability of the...

Study Finds Both Widespread Programmatic Adoption And Lack Of Understanding How It Works
A new study found large gaps in the numbers of respondents who said they use programmatic (67 percent) compared to the number who say...

Ad Blocking: Simply A Symptom Of Advertising’s Lack Of Creativity
This summer, my wife began binge-watching the show, “Parenthood.” Luckily for her (though not us advertising folks), the first four...

Debunking The CTR To Find Truth In Viewability
“Viewability” is the buzzword du jour in the ad tech world, yet only a small number of advertisers are actually using viewability metrics...

Customers Need To Be Part Of The Advertising Conversation
Some say that sales was the first real profession. I don’t think that’s true. I believe that it was advertising. After all, you can’t...

Not Just Ads, iOS 9 Content Blockers Can Also Block Analytics
Though they’ve been dubbed “ad blockers,” it’s not just ads that marketers and publishers have to worry about with iOS 9’s new content...

ONE By AOL Adds Creative To Platform Lineup For Dynamic Ad Optimization Across Screens
AOL announced the addition of One By AOL: Creative to the company’s advertising automation platform on Tuesday. The new unit is aimed at...

Mozilla Ready To Promote “Suggested Tiles” In Firefox
In early August, the Mozilla Foundation quietly began showing “Suggested tiles” when users open a new tab in its Firefox browser, the...

Google Adds Ad Injector Filter In DoubleClick Bid Manager
To combat ad injectors, Google has added a filter on DoubleClick Bid Manager to automatically keep advertisers from buying injected ad...

YouTube Reportedly Prepping For Independent Viewability Measurement
The Financial Times is reporting that YouTube will begin allowing third-party verification of ad viewability by the end of the year in...

Engagement Vs. Monetization: How Small Media Companies Can Walk The Fine Line
viewability, and publishers are starting to adapt their businesses to accommodate this trend. Some high-profile media companies have...

Expandable Native Gmail Ads Now Available To All In AdWords
Google has announced the roll out of native Gmail ads to all AdWords advertisers. The ads, which appear at the top of the Promotions tab...

September 1: Google’s Chrome Begins Auto-Pausing Flash Ads
360b / Shutterstock.com Another nail in Adobe Flash’s coffin is getting hammered in today. Google is now beginning to pause Flash-based...

The Golden Path To Programmatic Premium
Much has been written over the past several years about the battle that traditional publishers have fought to adapt their business models...

Adobe Flash Takes Another Hit As Amazon Moves To Eliminate All Flash-Based Ads
The e-commerce giant posted the following notice on its Technical Guidelines page, confirming its decision to remove Flash because of...