
Google launches Marketing Mix Model Partners program for comparing channel performance
Google has launched a partner program for marketing mix modeling vendors to integrate Google data into their solutions. Launch partners...

IAS on the ad industry’s brand safety uproar: ‘Not sure this is going away this timeR
Integral Ad Science is one of the third parties Google is bringing in to help monitor ad placements on YouTube in the wake of advertiser...

The Brand Safety Industrial Complex: Does anyone benefit from making things safer?
Fifty-six years ago, President Eisenhower warned that the “military-industrial complex” was creating a “disastrous rise of misplaced...

Countering header bidding, Google drops its ‘last look’ advantage
Google may have taken away header bidding’s best reason for being. The increasingly popular practice of header bidding arose largely...

Header bidding: What marketers need to know
In previous articles, we navigated the digital display advertising “stack,” starting with direct orders, programmatic direct, private...

Major US brands now pulling ads from YouTube & Google over extremist content
Twin Design / Shutterstock.com Like dominoes falling, more brands are pulling their ads from YouTube and Google display ad network over...

Facebook adopts header bidding to make its ad network more competitive with Google’s
Long story short: Facebook’s ad network is challenging ad networks run by Google and others to see who can get publishers the best deals...

Adobe launches a super-cloud to manage customer experience
Adobe is gathering its clouds and making more. This week, the company unpacked a truckload of announcements at the Adobe Summit digital...

Google announces new brand safety controls for display & video advertisers
A day after Matt Britton, Google’s EMEA head of operations, apologized for advertisers’ ads appearing adjacent to extremist content —...

ANA calls for independent audits of ads in the ‘walled gardens’
All “walled gardens” need some windows. That’s the essential message from the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), which today...

MediaBrix – now Receptiv – adds programmatic video marketplace and DMP
A Receptiv in-app ad, where a user “unlocks” a message and then gets rewarded (after returning to the app) Mobile marketer MediaBrix is...

Surprise: Only 12% of top websites are using header bidding
In the world of digital advertising, header bidding hit superstar status in the last year or so. But a new report from New York...

Why search will save TV
Cord cutting, the death of TV and digital disruption are always hot topics. Agencies and marketers constantly talk about how TV is being...

Whitelists vs. blacklists for programmatic media
programmatic display can be quite complex regardless of which DSP (demand-side platform) you use to execute your buys. For many years,...

Why martech data should drive ad tech
It’s not a shock to say that chief marketing officers (CMOs) today are likely spending significant time on tech solutions management...

Amobee beefs up Singtel’s digital ads division by buying ad tech firm Turn
Singtel’s ad tech division Amobee said Wednesday night it has agreed to buy ad tech firm Turn for $310 million. Amobee, which was...

Tru Optik now allows identified customer data for OTT TV ad targeting, through LiveRamp
Data provider Tru Optik has been busily assembling the ability to target Over-The-Top (OTT) TV audiences with the kind of data that is...

The 4 truths of programmatic marketing
Arguably, finding the perfect blend of messaging, channel and context to optimize your activity has never been easier. Today, technology...

AdParlor launches Intelligence Tags to better assess social ads’ performance
In their never-ending quest to understand which creative works best in an ad, marketers now have another tool. Today, social ad platform...
























