Last year, Facebook said it would provide all advertisers with reports listing the publishers on whose sites, apps, Instant Articles and native Facebook videos their ads may appear when buying that inventory from the social network. But those reports have not yet become widely available. Facebook has been gradually rolling out the pre-campaign placement lists […]
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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Whether you’re a newbie or a seasoned vet, determining if you should use search advertising or display advertising for your marketing campaign is tough. Use the wrong channel and you potentially ruin the maximum success of your whole campaign. Thankfully, there are ways to decide which is the best for your business and which will
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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
A small segment of Google AdSense publishers have noticed changes in ad delivery on their sites over the past month or so. Publishers say ads are not being served and the ad slots on their pages appear as blank spaces, causing drops in revenue. There has been speculation on the AdSense forum that the issue
Self-service ad platform SteelHouse announced this week that it is adding Connected TV (CTV) to its advertising capabilities, marking another step toward full citizenship in the advertising ecosystem for Net-based television. Viewers of CTV are expected to reach almost 60 percent of the US population this year, according to an eMarketer study. CTV is online
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The predictions are now a stark reality. With its Q3 earnings release in early November, Criteo confirmed what until then had been only speculation: Apple’s new Intelligent Tracking Prevention feature, rolled out with the latest version of its Safari browser in September, is taking a heavy toll on retargeters and industry players that rely on
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