Amazon announced this week that is now using the Media Rating Council’s (MRC) standard for viewability when reporting view-through conversions. Why you should care Under the MRC standard, an ad impression is considered viewable when at least 50 percent of the pixels are in-view for at least one second. Only impressions deemed viewable based on […]
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Location intelligence company Gravy Analytics is introducing what it’s calling “location data forensics.” Its purpose is to filter out unreliable, inaccurate or fraudulent location data from the bidstream. Location data often unreliable. Mobile ad exchange bid requests including location are often significantly more valuable than those without. That results in a lot of questionable location
Since 1995, Santa trades in his sleigh once a year for a Coca-Cola truck and tours the UK, sharing the soft drinks that have become closely associated with the winter holidays. This year, facing pressure from health advocates, Coca-Cola plans to scale back the campaign. Controversy aside, the Christmas trucks are a prime example of
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Well, December 13th was a good day for me. It was my birthday – had a great time with my family and a chocolate peanut butter pie! Google also announced the option to pay for conversions with display campaigns. For many, this is a welcome new bidding feature that may encourage people to re-examine how
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Google discussed three features aimed at helping advertisers reach new customers with Display campaigns in a blog post Tuesday. Here’s what you need to know. Dynamic prospecting with product feeds. Google announced this feature recently, and you may be familiar with the concept if you run them on Facebook. As opposed to showing product ads
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Out just over a year, the Interactive Advertising Bureau Tech Lab’s third-party in-app ad viewability and measurement tool is gaining significant steam. IAB will announce Wednesday that its Open Measurement software development kit (SDK) has achieved adoption by 17 companies across the U.S., Europe and Asia, and it’s enabled on 2 billion devices across the
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When consumers actually walk into a store, there are a host of high-level expectations that have shifted over time but remain largely in place. Salespeople will be around to help in case of questions, products will be organized to make browsing relatively simple, etc. Contrast that with the expectations of an online shopping experience. Endless
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This week, a federal court indicted eight individuals for their roles in widespread digital advertising fraud, with charges ranging from wire fraud and computer intrusion to aggravated identity theft and money laundering. The news is the latest chapter in a multi-year investigation of ad fraud botnets initiated by ad fraud security firm WhiteOps in 2016. Botnets
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Wunderman Global CEO Mel Edwards (left) will take on the same role at the new agency, while J. Walter Thompson CEO Tamara Ingram (right), will become Chairman. Photo provided by WPP. Advertising holding company WPP Group said Monday it would merge the venerable creative shop J. Walter Thompson with the data- and direct-marketing-oriented Wunderman to
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Blockthrough, which provides software and methods to counter adblocking, has purchased PageFair, which offers similar services. Deal terms were not made public. In the announcement, the two companies emphasized their complementary differences. “The combination of Blockthrough’s proven revenue recovery tools and PageFair’s powerful analytics solution creates the industry’s most comprehensive and effective adblock recovery platform,”
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