The fallout from reports of ad fraud continues for Newsweek Media Group as ad tech vendors say they have stopped selling NMG inventory through their exchanges and networks. AppNexus and SpotX told The Wall Street Journal last week that they have ended their relationships to sell ads on NMG properties. Third-party measurement and authentication company […]
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Late last year, the Association of National Advertisers reported that some 35% of marketers have already brought programmatic in-house, a dramatic increase from the 14% reported in 2016. And that’s just a start. Marketers have their eyes on a host of services once outsourced to their agencies: social media marketing, data management, strategic planning, message
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Chicago-based Centro announced that its programmatic ad platform Basis can now show advertisers what creatives performed best at a granular ad-level across DoubleClick, Facebook, Instagram, Google Search, and Google Display Network as well programmatic and direct-to-publisher buys made through its own DSP. For example, a campaign might be running the same creative messaging across multiple
Last spring, Google started automatically converting Google-delivered display ads to AMP when served on AMP-enabled pages on publisher sites last year. Now, Google is sharing some stats on how those conversions are working for publishers at AMP Conf and in a year-in-review post. The company also released Real-Time Config to enable publishers to integrate third-party technology
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Consumer packaged goods maker Unilever, an advertising force with a $9.8 billion annual marketing budget, is ringing the alarm bells that all is still not well in the environments fostered by the likes of Google and Facebook. Unilever Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Keith Weed spoke about the need for platforms to regain consumer trust
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New numbers from ad exchange OpenX further point to deepening adoption of ads.txt and changing programmatic practices. OpenX reports that 54 percent of the comScore 1000 had implemented ads.txt on their sites by mid-January. That’s up from 7 percent in August, when ads.txt adoption was slow to scale. The analysis by OpenX focuses on the largest
Ahead of Super Bowl Sunday, Google has announced two new features in DoubleClick Bid Manager to help advertisers activate campaigns across multiple screens and bridge digital and live TV efforts. Eighty percent of sports viewers say they use a computer or smartphone while watching live sports on TV to do things like searching for player
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The digital advertising industry’s got a big problem, and it’s not going away anytime soon. One report estimated that businesses could lose as much as $16.4 billion to advertising fraud in 2017. Such frightful statistics are putting advertisers on edge. No business — large or small — wants to see its money wasted. But how
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When I first started in advertising, change was incremental, and so was learning. Staying current meant keeping up with the newest ways to use technologies and media that were already staunchly embedded in the consumer experience. Twenty years later, lured by the dynamism of the digital advertising revolution and its promise to reach consumers more
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Roughly a decade ago, a variety of companies were trying to simplify and make (self-service) display advertising accessible to small businesses (SMB): AdReady, AdMission and iPromote. Today, only iPromote is still carrying that torch; the others have been acquired or exited the SMB market. While they weren’t all the same and used different tools, it’s
