Google News Initiative event held in New York City, March 20, 2018 Google’s plans to help support publishers’ subscription businesses came into clearer focus on Tuesday at an event in New York City. The company is launching a wider framework for working with publishers, called the Google News Initiative. It builds on several of the […]
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Native ads have so much potential that I don’t believe is being explored enough today. True, they may not seem all that interesting if you only focus on your bottom line. A good retargeting strategy for display ads might generate more conversions if you’re looking to sell a product. However, in comparison to display prospecting,
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
The rise of digital advertising has brought unparalleled opportunities to target ads and improve performance. With programmatic campaigns, computers can manage ad placements across thousands of sites to target the right audience, at the right time, right across the web. Or so goes the theory. In practice, programmatic advertising is wide open to abuse. A
A little more than a year ago, in January 2017, Marc Pritchard, chief brand officer of Procter & Gamble, threw down a gauntlet. Frustrated by increasing instances of frauds, breaches, sloppy executions and potentially shady markups, Pritchard posed a historic dare to digital advertisers to either “grow up” or P&G would pull their ads. In
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What will programmatic advertising look like in a few years? For Time Inc.-owned Viant, people-based marketing is the trend, and the company has recently released a white paper that offers some evidence in support of that vision. The paper, “Power of the People: How People-Based Marketing Is Driving Change Across the US Advertising Industry” (registration
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Opinions expressed in this article are those of the sponsor. 3 game-changing advancements put TV advertising back in the limelight. Every marketer, regardless of discipline, has a holy grail in mind. For analysts, it may be having a holistic view of the customer journey. For creatives, it may be having the team and tools to
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Snapchat is going all in on automation. More than a year after Snapchat’s parent company Snap officially launched its advertising API for approved developers to build software to programmatically buy ads on Snapchat, the company is opening up the automated ad-buying toolkit to all advertisers, agencies and third-party developers, Snap announced on Tuesday. Through Snap’s
