Expectations continue not to reflect reality in the business and working groups of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). In late August, Google software engineers presented a new proposal for the Privacy Sandbox called “fenced frames” that initially appeared to be a compromise with third-party ad companies. When the proposal was first mentioned before actually […]
Rush Job The Department of Justice could bring its antitrust case against Google by the end of this month, despite pleas from career lawyers to wait and build a stronger case against the tech giant, sources tell The New York Times. Some lawyers working on the case either refused to sign the complaint or left […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Mike Brooks, SVP of revenue at WeatherBug. WeatherBug has participated in dozens of closed-door partner and ecosystem meetings regarding Apple’s impending iOS 14 release, and one thing has become painfully clear: App publishers bear […]
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Baby Steps Facebook will block political ads in the week leading up to the US Presidential election in an effort to suppress misinformation. The platform will also flag posts that come from candidates either claiming victory before the official results are finalized or trying to dispute the outcome. Facebook has already restricted the ability to […]
The rumors are true: Apple is going to postpone the enforcement of its planned IDFA restrictions in iOS 14 until sometime early next year. That sound you just heard? It’s the collective exhale of relief coming from mobile developers and measurement vendors who had been scrambling to adjust to the changes. In a statement provided […]
“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 Laura Desmond, founder and CEO at Eagle Vista Partners. The current COVID-19 crisis has been an unprecedented game-changer for marketers. The last decade was driven by business and digital transformation, from […]
SKAdNetwork is Apple’s homegrown solution for attribution. Apple itself verifies when clicks lead to installs and shares that information directly with ad networks through an encrypted postback and without the need to pass an IDFA. That should make app marketing in iOS 14 pretty much impervious to fraud … right? Well, yes and no. It […]
It feels a tad early to be buying pumpkin spice lattes (even though you apparently can). But one thing it’s definitely not too early to do? Get ready for Apple’s IDFA changes in iOS 14. And even the biggies need to prepare. Last week, Facebook got very vocal about its plans, which involve not collecting […]
Even as mobile ad platforms get their houses in order as Apple restricts IDFA in iOS 14, there are still a lot of open questions that remain, said David Gregson, a product manager at Twitter’s MoPub who’s directly involved with the mobile exchange’s response plan to Apple’s updates. “There’s still a lack of clarity about […]
If you’re trying to read more than 1,000 pages of legal documents about the US v. Google ad tech antitrust case on Election Day, you’ve come to the right place.
While WaPo recently lost 250,000 subscribers due to concerns over its journalistic independence, NYT added 260,000 subscriptions in Q3 thanks largely to the popularity of its non-news offerings.
Stop thinking about brand safety verification as “insurance” – a way to avoid undesirable content – and start thinking about it as an opportunity to build positive brand associations, says Kenvue’s Mark Proulx.
Google hit some impressive revenue benchmarks in Q3. But investors seemed to only have eyes for AI.
Ad revenue grew 56% YOY even without some of Reddit’s shiny new ad products, including generative AI creative tools and in-comment ads, being fully integrated into its platform.
Freestar adopted a new approach to curation developed by Audigent that gives buyers a priority lane to publisher inventory with higher viewability and attention scores than most open-auction inventory.
