Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Cookies, Who Needs ‘Em (Cont.) The Online Publishers Association (OPA) is the latest ad group to dismiss worries about the “Corleone kiss of death” Mozilla has seemingly planted on the third party cookie. It said in a statement, “In spite of the doom-saying, Mozilla’s […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Behind The Bot The focus on fraudulent impressions driven by the “Chameleon” botnet discovered by London-based ad measurement and viewability firm Spider.io this week continues to evolve. Dr. Douglas de Jager, CEO of spider.io, writing in Adweek, investigates some possible (inadvertent?) sources for the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Two Speeds For Ad Spend Globally With job growth in the US, new fears in Europe, and uncertainty in China, guessing global ad trends one year out may seem a fool’s game. Carat takes a stab anyway, projecting 5% spending growth worldwide. Digital ads […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Botsploitation Adweek’s Mike Shields pens a feature on “ghost publishers” who create inventory through botnets, invisible impressions, and other non-human means. Using background sources, he fingers a group of the “most suspect” site networks. An irony: the problem may be driven by brand marketers. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. SpotXchange On Publisher Tools Video ad marketplace operator SpotXchange is promoting some additional tools for publishers that promise to help balance the advantages that advertisers and media buyers get from demand side platforms. From the release: “Publishers will have insight into who their buyers […]
“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 by Andy Atherton, SVP at AppNexus. It’s the second in a series on the emergence of programmatic reserve. A few weeks back, I laid out the case for a closer look at programmatic […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Falling Video CPMs In a WSJ story last week, reporter Suzanne Vranica revisited the case of the falling video CPMs using new data from video ad network and exchange owner Bright Roll. The data fingers the usual suspect (programmatic buying). But there’s a silver […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AdBlock Blocked Google has booted a number of programs including AdBlock Plus, AdBlocker, AdFree and more from the Google Play Store. “After a regular review we have determined that your app interferes with or accesses another service or product in an unauthorized manner,” says […]
Reduce Data uses advertiser data to optimize campaigns across DSPs and ad networks. For instance, CEO Asif Ali says when a network is buying or retargeting a user who has already clicked or converted, Reduce Data can override the network-specific optimization and deliver a different campaign or creative. Ali says Reduce Data can similarly use […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Custom Audiences Ad Boost More than twice as many advertisers have flocked to Facebook’s custom audiences feature since January, reports Bloomberg’s Brian Womack. Released nearly six months ago, custom audiences, which lets companies apply data they’ve collected from outside the social network to their […]
