As we navigate the challenges facing our industry, we must prioritize both efficiency and integrity – and focus on quality over quantity in ad delivery.
The industry’s sharpest minds claim we are entering the Outcomes Era of digital advertising. But we have been in the Outcomes Era for over a decade. It is high time to embrace the Quality Era, instead.
Under the new leadership, the FTC is signaling a pivot away from sweeping rulemaking efforts to let Congress play that role, writes Uplevel CEO Raashee Gupta Erry.
Meta and Mozilla’s new browser-based attribution system for web ads appears to solve an interesting math problem. But if applied to real-world advertising, it will increase privacy risks for users, writes Raptive’s Don Marti.
Agents are autonomous and thoughtful, incredibly fast and knowledgeable. They won’t replace star performers, but they will supercharge your team’s delivery.
Under the guise of preventing “censorship,” Jim Jordan and the FCC’s Brendan Carr are attacking the First Amendment rights of private companies to choose what kinds of political content they support.
Nineteen states have passed comprehensive privacy laws, but how close are we really to a federal privacy law?
As we move into 2025 and beyond, there are a few areas where President-elect Donald Trump’s policy proposals will directly affect the advertising industry, writes Eric Haggstrom of Advertiser Perceptions.
The in-game advertising market’s stagnation is both unsurprising and frustrating. The onus is on the gaming industry to make gaming an essential channel for advertisers, rather than a nice-to-have.
Two perspectives have emerged on curation: The value argument highlights refined audience targeting, while the ad network argument emphasizes enabling smaller players to compete with scaled giants.
Success with Gen Z isn’t about the stories brands want to tell – it’s about tapping into their stories and aligning with how they live and express themselves. That’s where the PPCCs framework comes in.
The hunger for first-party data is driving companies to demand our information more aggressively than ever. It’s hard to buy a coffee, magazine or sweater these days without someone demanding your name, number, email or home address.
Where and how brands choose to advertise is perceived as a reflection of the brand itself. That means we’ve entered the era of responsible advertising.
When talk turns to the most impactful state privacy laws, the conversation usually starts and stops with California. However, recent developments may make Maryland the most challenging state for compliance by the digital media industry.
Brands’ relentless drive for efficiency in media spending has far-reaching consequences that have significantly reshaped the industry and perpetuated longstanding issues with media quality.
Publicis outperforms its agency holding company rivals because of three primary factors: technology strategy, leadership and deal-making.
A creative director shares his favorite use cases for generative AI, his favorite AI tools (and the ones he won’t trust yet) and best practices for refining outputs.
Here are 12 essential tips to help advertisers optimize their retail media investments and thrive in this fierce new arena, based on insights from the ANA’s Retail Media Networks Fair.
Advertisers’ obsession with “following the audience” allowed low-quality sites and vanity metrics to thrive while brand integrity suffers. But a cultural shift back toward focusing on quality is underway.
Political ad strategies evolved quickly this year, as campaigns moved beyond exclusivity, focusing on flexibility and reach. Here’s what this cycle taught us and how it will guide our business in the medium term.
As media consultancy Sequent Partners ceases operations, its leaders look back at how far the ad industry has come – and how far it still needs to go.
When banner ads were introduced in 1994, pundits proclaimed that this new approach to advertising was going to ruin the world wide web and kill creativity as we know it. Others were worried about their jobs. Sound familiar?
Historically, media buying has been all about scale, even if it meant outrageously false population counts on audience segments.
With the growing number of social media users paying for a premium and often ad-free service, how can marketers engage these audiences?
Despite Chrome’s cookie deprecation turnaround, a comprehensive CAPI strategy remains crucial for brands advertising on Meta, LinkedIn and Snap – yet many advertisers are dragging their feet. Why the reluctance?
We should welcome the opportunity to be part of identity’s path forward, now that we’ve released ourselves from the shackles of the cookie, writes Mark McEachran, SVP of product at Yieldmo.
The catalyst for Google’s future success – regardless of any legal ruling – is its YouTube strategy. Opening YouTube’s ad inventory to outside demand will increase its value.
Here’s an idea: Forget years of appeals. Google should spin out its entire network unit as a public benefit “B Corp” with capped margins. writes Arete Research’s Richard Kramer.
Google isn’t perfect. But it offers convenient, cost-effective advertising tools that millions of small businesses use to find customers, grow and succeed. If the DOJ breaks up the company, it will also break those tools.
As we lean heavily on AI tools to enhance content efficiency, we may have reached a tipping point where we are creating more content in service of media algorithms, rather than for the benefit of consumers and brands.
