Everyone in our industry has been on the edge of their seat since Google first began developing the Privacy Sandbox more than three years ago. But things have been moving slowly, writes Lukasz Wlodarczyk, VP of programmatic ecosystem growth and innovation at RTB House. The cookieless future is virtually here, and the time to experiment with alternatives is now.
Forget the post-cookie future. For Dailymotion, user-based targeting is already a thing of the past. Hamza Kourimate, VP and global head of sales marketing and data solutions at Dailymotion, spoke to AdExchanger on how the video platform is using its first-party data trove to build a contextual framework for video.
As technology and industry self-regulation converge to make supply and demand path optimization more seamless and efficient, we need a better name to describe optimization across the advertising ecosystem, writes Stephen Johnston, CTO of PubWise. “I’d like to submit for your consideration a new term: advertising logistics.”
First-party data will be indispensable in a world without third-party-cookies. But before publishers can monetize that data, they need to respect it, said Karthic Bala, executive vice president of data, product and technology at CNET, a Red Ventures-owned publisher that covers tech and consumer electronics.
While Google’s recent decision to extend the life of third-party cookies for another year didn’t come as much of a surprise, it nonetheless sent another ripple throughout the ecosystem. As we enter a future focused on restoring consumer trust, the past few years have seen a ton of changes to the digital advertising landscape, writes Mark Pearlstein, CRO of Permutive.
There’s a new TLA (“three-letter acronym”) that’s crept into the media-buying conversation. MFA: Made-for-advertising content. MFA is a combination of paid traffic, clickbait and other incentivized traffic, engineered to create ad impressions and generate revenue. New sites pop up virtually overnight with millions of impressions, sucking up ad dollars and hurting campaign performance, writes Tal Almany, VP of publisher development at Kargo.
Hardly a week goes by without a marketer or an investor declaring their interest in committing more support to minority-owned media. But the timing is unfortunate, writes Lashawnda Goffin, CEO of Colossus SSP. Just as brands are ready to shift more dollars toward minority audiences and publications, the death of third-party cookies is making those audiences harder to zero-in on.
The Financial Times has long avoided chasing open web programmatic ad revenue. Now, with signal loss prompting a renaissance for contextual targeting and direct deals – and with momentum behind attention metrics, of which the FT was an early proponent going back to 2015 – the publisher’s longtime strategy seems prescient. Brendan Spain, the FT’s VP of advertising for the Americas, spoke with AdExchanger.
Apple made an announcement that might have digital advertising ramifications sooner than news about the company’s DSP. Apple’s forthcoming “Lockdown Mode” can protect consumers from illicit activity and unwanted tracking. But it’s designed for a specific group of individuals vulnerable to attacks – plus, it can impact functionality in a way most users won’t tolerate.
The programmatic ecosystem is so complex and opaque that bad actors are able to game the system to fund hate and social harm. Now, advertisers are getting more concerned about funding harmful activity through ad fraud and high-velocity disinformation within social and programmatic ecosystems, writes Sarah Bolton, EVP of business intelligence at Advertiser Perceptions.
