
Premarketing: The Evolution Of Targeting
Nothing has evolved more in online marketing than the way we identify and target users. Just a few years ago, segmentation of publishers...

WTF Is A Cookie, Anyway? Do You Really Know, Or Just Think You Do?
This month’s column was inspired by a very brave CMO who bluntly asked, during a recent conversation, “WTF is a cookie, anyway?” This...

Federated Media Sells Content Marketing Business To Focus On Programmatic
Media-seller Federated Media Publishing, which began in 2005 with big native advertising ambitions for independent bloggers, has given up...

Creating & Iterating Today: The Marriage Of Tech & Imagination
In our industry, we acknowledge the longstanding rub between the quant and the qual. We know that the math and the creative imagination...

Facebook Advertisers Doubled Ad Spend in Q4 [Kenshoo]
banner 2013 holiday season, including a record-setting Cyber Monday. Advertisers also committed larger budgets to digital in Q4, and...

Google Rolls Out “AdSense Direct” For Publishers To Manage Direct Ad Sales
announced the roll out of AdSense Direct today to allow publishers to implement campaigns for ads they sell direct to advertisers through...

Google To Roll-Out In-Ad Surveys After Users Mute Display Ads
Following up on the release of its 2013 Bad Ads report, Google announced today that it will soon be rolling out in-ad surveys that will...

Are Prospective Car Buyers Your Digital Goldmine? New IAB Study Points To Broader Appeal Beyond Deal
New research from the IAB and Prosper Insight on Auto Intenders — adults ages 18+ who are planning to buy or lease a car or truck within...

Old Guard Industries Now Driving Growth In B2B Online Advertising
For the first time, established industries such as financial services and manufacturing are fueling the growth in real-time bidding in...

Unlocking The Tremendous Possibilities Of Audience Data
I don’t think it’s news to anyone that there is more readily-available audience data than ever before. “From the dawn of civilization...

Merging Massive Data Sets
You have a hot date lined up and your eyes are set on the perfect little black dress (LBD) to buy from a local store. Just one small...

Today’s Methods Help Us More Aggressively Compete
Even fairly recently, a marketer or agency might tell you that the top focus of the media lead was to build and optimize the right plan...

Programmatic Dominates Our Top 10 Display Advertising Columns For 2013
What was on the minds of Display Advertisers in 2013? RTB? DSPs? DMPs? Indeed, it was all of these acronyms, which you can clearly see...

Rosy Outlook For Digital Publishers: Q3 Ad Revenues Climb 18 Percent In The UK
report from consulting firm Deloitte and the UK’s Association of Online Publishers (AOP). The large majority — 85 percent — of publishers...

Yahoo Expands Programmatic Capabilities With New DSP Partnerships
announced it is expanding access to new programmatic buying capabilities for its display inventory. MediaMath, DoubleClick Bid Manager...

Survey: 3 Out Of 4 Consumers Now Notice Retargeted Ads
The curtain has been lifted. Consumers are overwhelmingly aware they are being tracked and advertised to by retailers whose sites they’ve...

Google AdSense Now Enables Publishers To Set Custom Ad Sizes
Google will determine the number of text ads that appear in an ad unit, and may change the results for a given impression. According to...

Auto-Generated Vs. Pro-Designed Display Ads: How Much Does Creative Matter?
test by Dispop, a self-serve display platform that enables advertisers to crowdsource display ad creative from graphic designers. The...

Google Tests Social Ads, Turns Google+ Posts Into Display Ads To Show Across The Web
Brands can take content posted on Google+ and turn photos, videos and even Hangouts into display ads. Rather than have the ads served...
























