
Survey: Video Ad “Viewability” Doesn’t Ensure Brand Or Product Recognition
A recent survey shows that just 25 percent of people were able to identify the brand or product being advertised in online video ads...

Next Level Native Advertising: Where Intent, Creative & Content Meet
Over the past few years, consumers’ opinions of native ads have shifted. While some consumers once perceived native advertising as...

Why Mobile Programmatic Is The Next Frontier
Perhaps it was inevitable that programmatic buying would begin to take off on mobile. After all, mobile advertising is growing faster by...

Google Opens The (Vaultlike) Door To Its Anti-Fraud Team For The First Time
In Februrary, 2014, Google acquired the small but potent anti-fraud firm spider.io. In 2013, London-based outfit, headed by Douglas de...

Storytelling In A Data-Driven, Cross-Device Era
Everyone loves a great story — a story that quickly captures your attention, keeps you engaged and speaks directly to you. Today, there...

Millennial Media, 33Across Go All In On 100 Percent Viewability
As the digital advertising industry takes a measured approach to adopting viewability as the standard metric for buying and selling...

Google Study Exposes “Tangled Web” Of Companies Profiting From Ad Injection
Example of a browser infected with ad injectors. More than 3,000 advertisers, including major brands such as Sears, Walmart, Target and...

5 Principles For Making Programmatic Creative Work
Afterwards, a digital advertising friend commented on how sad it was that our colleague “wished it was still the good ol’ days.” I...

Finding Creativity In The Age Of Programmatic
Creative people in advertising are in the middle of an identity crisis of sorts as programmatic media technology sweeps the industry....

How Intent Data Leads To Better, More Personalized Marketing
Few people admit to loving online ads, but one thing is clear: Some ads are much more well-liked than others. Consumers prefer ads that...

Marketers, Is Your Data Scalable?
While “big data” was once seen as a buzzword, the conversation has grown tremendously over the past several years. Data now holds the...

Google Makes TrueView Ads Available For Programmatic Buying In DoubleClick
Google has announced plans to make its TrueView ad format available for programmatic video buying in the DoubleClick Bid Manager. Major...

Programmatic Beyond RTB: A Primer
Over the past couple of years, audience marketing, particularly across social and display, has been revolutionized by the real-time...

Are You Ready For A Digital “Upfront?”
Denys Prykhodov / Shutterstock.com As the TV heavyweights get ready to debut their fall lineup at the annual upfront presentations, much...

AOL Launches ONE To Allow Advertisers To Manage And Measure Programmatic Across All Screens
After much planning, AOL has launched ONE, an advertising platform that rolls up all of AOL’s ad tech brands into one access point for...

Take Programmatic Display To The Next Level
If data are collected and never acted upon, what is the lost value to your business? Consider this: If the mass of available data were...

How Google Could Make Billions Off Belly Button Lint
eBay’s search engine marketing team used to be famous (infamous?) for what can only be described as SEM carpet-bombing. In the early days...

Microsoft Changes Course On Default “Do Not Track” Browser Setting
Microsoft announced Friday that it is changing the default setting for Do Not Track in future versions the company’s browsers. Do Not...

Why B2C Ad Metrics Are Ruining Your B2B Campaigns
Every week, we get an automated email from one of display ad vendors with this subject line, “Rachel, you could get more clicks by...