Apple appears to be providing its homegrown ad network with more granular measurement functionality that what everyone else will get through SKAdNetwork. Specifically, the Apple Ads Attribution API payload field will include two parameters that are important for optimization – creativeSet ID and keywordID – but totally absent from SKAdNetwork postbacks. Without creativeSetID, advertisers won’t know which […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Our guest this week, Manu Mathew, got in on the ground floor of multi-touch attribution (MTA) when he founded Visual IQ. The MTA company rose with the programmatic tide before being acquired by Nielsen in 2017. The category […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jane Clarke, managing director and CEO at the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM). Attribution, or the measurement and assignation of an outcome following an ad exposure, has revolutionized media planning and buying with the promise of being […]
Mobile ad networks have been busily stress testing SKAdNetwork in preparation for Apple’s IDFA changes – but they’ve been doing so with one arm tied behind their back. For months, two of the most crucial pieces of information necessary for attribution were absent in the postbacks coming from SKAdNetwork, which is Apple’s API for enabling ad […]
“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 Christophe Collet, CEO at S4M. When was the last time you heard A/B testing and IDFA in the same sentence? The former is traditional ad campaign testing methodology going back […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Sona Pehlivanian, VP of addressable campaign management and operations at New York Interconnect. As TV and video viewership fractures across platforms, channels and devices, marketers are shifting their TV buying plans to account for new […]
“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 Angelina Eng, vice president of measurement and attribution at IAB and IAB Tech Lab. In less than two years, many publishers, advertisers, data vendors and technology platforms will need to reevaluate […]
AppsFlyer said Tuesday it closed a $210 million Series D round, bringing the app measurement firm’s total funding to more than $293 million since 2014. The company had previously raised a $56 million Series C in 2017. The round, which brings AppsFlyer’s valuation to $1.6 billion, was led by General Atlantic with participation from existing […]
This article is sponsored by the New York Interconnect. Attribution has long been the holy grail for TV advertising. Yet even without it, TV’s ability to reach audiences at scale and drive brand awareness has solidified it as one of the most powerful channels for advertisers. Advertising budgets continue to reinforce this value. In fact, […]
Direct-to-consumer brands have just as much to learn about retail as traditional retail brands can learn from DTCs. “DTC founders make the mistake of thinking we know everything, just because we were able to scale and build our businesses faster,” said Nate Checketts, CEO and co-founder of Rhone, a men’s sports apparel startup founded in […]
