
Programmatic problems: Fixing a broken market
The rise of digital advertising has brought unparalleled opportunities to target ads and improve performance. With programmatic...

Over a year out from P&G’s ultimatum: Are brands any safer? Is programmatic ad buying any more
threw down a gauntlet. Frustrated by increasing instances of frauds, breaches, sloppy executions and potentially shady markups, Pritchard...

New survey by people-based marketer Viant promotes marketing to identified users
What will programmatic advertising look like in a few years? For Time Inc.-owned Viant, people-based marketing is the trend, and the...

All the right marketing technology for advanced TV media buying
Every marketer, regardless of discipline, has a holy grail in mind. For analysts, it may be having a holistic view of the customer...

Snapchat opens its advertising API to everyone
Snapchat is going all in on automation. More than a year after Snapchat’s parent company Snap officially launched its advertising API for...

A final call? Unilever threatens to pull ads from platforms swamped with ‘toxic’ content
Consumer packaged goods maker Unilever, an advertising force with a $9.8 billion annual marketing budget, is ringing the alarm bells that...

IAB’s first publication on blockchain in advertising paints an optimistic picture
In a sign that blockchain is picking up steam as a solution to some of digital advertising’s biggest problems, the Interactive...

IAB publishes GDPR advice for advertisers who use OpenRTB
GDPR), the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Tech Lab has announced the release of GDPR guidance for OpenRTB and a GDPR technical...

Facebook’s ad placement reports were supposed to roll out to all advertisers last year but have not
Last year, Facebook said it would provide all advertisers with reports listing the publishers on whose sites, apps, Instant Articles and...

With 54% of comScore 1000 publishers adopting ads.txt, OpenX says it will start banning unauthorized
New numbers from ad exchange OpenX further point to deepening adoption of ads.txt and changing programmatic practices. OpenX reports that...

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...

Ad tech firms join PageFair’s new Perimeter initiative for GDPR-compliant ad targeting
Having analyzed the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and determined that user consent is “unworkable” for targeted...

New Adform study: Ads.txt is reaching ‘universal pickup’
It appears that ads.txt is reaching a critical mass among major publishers. A new analysis released by Adform of the top 1,000 global...

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...

IAB Tech Lab releases OpenDirect 2.0 and OpenData 1.0
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Tech Lab is out with two new specs: version 2.0 of its OpenDirect spec for automated guaranteed...

SteelHouse adds Connected TV
Self-service ad platform SteelHouse announced this week that it is adding Connected TV (CTV) to its advertising capabilities, marking...

We’re already seeing the fallout from Apple’s war on cookies
The predictions are now a stark reality. With its Q3 earnings release in early November, Criteo confirmed what until then had been only...

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...
























