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  • Google Releases Incomplete Version Of Its Sellers.json File

    Google released a beta version of its sellers.json file last week, just before the Q2 deadline it promised at the beginning of this year. Sellers.json is a transparency tool to help buyers distinguish between direct sellers versus intermediaries and resellers. Yet, only 5% of Google’s sellers.json files are complete, according to data from programmatic consultancy […]

  • Podcast: The Information Advantage

    AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Jounce Media founder Chris Kane gave a popular presentation at Programmatic IO New York on the buzzy discipline of supply-path optimization (SPO). In this episode, Kane comes into the AdExchanger studio for a deep dive on SPO and the ways advertisers can use it to optimize […]

  • Attribution Blind Spots Are Eating Your Performance

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community.  Today’s column is written by Chris Kane, founder at Jounce Media. Marketers who measure website traffic, online sales, app installs or even offline sales all take a fundamentally similar approach to attribution. For each conversion event, they capture a […]

  • Blaming Programmatic: Snapchat Goes To An Old Publisher Script

    When Snap reported disappointing earnings on Tuesday, it said revenue was constrained by its shift from a direct sales model to a programmatic, auction-based model. Snap’s excuse mimics one that publishers used in the early days of programmatic to explain their revenue shortfalls, and it doesn’t fully take into account immaturities and nuances in Snap’s […]

  • Walled Gardens Pave The Way For Server-Side Measurement

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chris Kane, founder at Jounce Media. Chris will present “Server-Side Attribution” at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC I/O New York conference on October 25-26. The growing power of walled gardens isn’t all bad for the rest of the media world. Facebook, […]

  • With Latest Safari Release, Apple Fixes Its Cookie Glitch

    “Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Chris Kane, founder at Jounce Media. For years, Apple’s Safari browser has endeavored to prevent advertising technology companies from tracking user web browsing behavior via cookies. And for years, ad tech […]

  • Podcast: Tips For Incremental In-Housing

    Welcome to episode No. 20 of AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. For marketers considering bringing programmatic advertising in-house, Jounce Media founder Chris Kane has a word of advice: Break the process into steps. “There are a lot of ad tech companies that are selling the dream to marketers that you’re going […]

  • What Your Data Half-Life Says About Your Risk Tolerance

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chris Kane, founder at Jounce Media. AppNexus CEO Brian O’Kelly recently published an authoritative breakdown of the multiple routes by which publishers unintentionally leak data into the hands of bad actors. In the post, […]

  • The Performance Imperative

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chris Kane, founder at Jounce Media. Marketers love innovation. They love breakthrough design and taking creative risks. They love emerging channels and experimental formats. CFOs do not. CFOs love efficient deployment of capital. They […]

  • The Data Leakage Balancing Act

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chris Kane, founder at Jounce Media. Publishers are right to be worried about data leakage. Selling through RTB pipes exposes a wealth of publisher data that rogue buyers can exploit for audience insights, modeling […]

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