YouTube Is Invading The Living Room
Views of Shorts on CTV devices more than doubled last year, people watch more than 1 billion hours of YouTube daily on their TVs – and other fun facts from YouTube’s Brandcast event.
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It’s Time For Buyers To Ditch Vanity Metrics And Start Collaborating With The Sell Side
Buyers could solve many of the issues they have with the open web by focusing less on viewability and clicks and more on driving performance outcomes, says Goodway Group director of strategic partnerships Andrea Kwiatek.
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IAS Had A Better Q1 Than DV, But That Doesn’t Mean There Aren’t Elephants In The Room
Integral Ad Science had a decent Q1 – especially in comparison to its direct competitor, DoubleVerify. Even so, frustration with the opacity of third-party brand safety and ad verification providers is increasingly bubbling to the surface.
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Programmers And Platforms Make One Last Plea For Ad Dollars Ahead Of The Upfronts
Programmers are using their Q1 earnings reports as a dress rehearsal for their upfront pitches. Meanwhile, programmatic platforms, including Magnite and PubMatic, also had upfronts in mind during their Q1 earnings.
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Comic: Enough With The Pearl Clutching
Enjoy this weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem …
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PODCAST: The Big StoryData Dazzles Ahead Of The TV Upfronts
Will data dazzle media buyers at this year’s TV upfronts? Plus: Why recent changes to Google search results have decimated traffic for some digital publishers – and rewarded others.
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Magnite Makes Its Case As A Differentiated SSP
For Magnite, the biggest growth opportunity lies in supply-path optimization. The trade-off is the pressure to differentiate itself from other supply-side platforms competing for agency deals.
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PubMatic Is Betting On Two Ad Tech Acronyms: CTV And SPO
PubMatic has its supply-path optimization initiative, its strategy to introduce direct deals for CTV and online video, to thank for its quarterly revenue growth.
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Google Search’s Core Updates Are Crushing Sites And Reshaping The Web
Google Search, the web’s largest traffic and revenue generator for two decades, is in the midst of sweeping overhauls that have already altered how users are funneled around the internet.
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News Orgs Are Done Begging For Ad Dollars
Appealing to advertisers’ better angels is never going to bring ads back to the news. But appealing to their bottom lines might.
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Freestar Is Taking The ‘Baby Carrot’ Approach To Curation
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.