Let’s face it: The “open internet” includes a lot of good things, but also a lot of crap. And it’s a disservice to responsible media owners and content creators to bundle them in with nefarious operators that pirate content and operate solely to siphon legitimate ad dollars away through arbitrage, writes Ruben Schreurs, group chief product officer at Ebiquity.
Last week, I tuned into the entire FTC forum on “surveillance capitalism” and data security – all five-plus hours of it (you’re welcome?) – and this is my main takeaway: The online advertising industry needs to find a new way to talk about itself.
A federal privacy law is perhaps the only way the digital media industry can stave off Big Tech companies, which are aggressively trying to define privacy on their own terms, writes Jason Bier, general counsel and chief privacy officer at Adstra.
Sephora is the first company to be fined under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to the tune of $1.2 million. Cory Munchbach, president and COO of BlueConic, weighs in on what this first instance of CCPA enforcement means for other brands and the future of privacy.
When the GDPR was passed in 2016, it was a wake-up call for anyone that handled consumer data. Now, four years since its implementation, GDPR’s efficacy remains unclear, writes Jessica Jacobs, global director of partnerships and growth at Incubeta.
Ad tech must quit its addiction to user IDs and instead start focusing on how we can innovate in other areas: audience targeting, managing frequency and improving measurement (especially conversion attribution). Meanwhile, contextual and geo-based targeting are a great way to reach an audience and get better than expected ROI on campaigns, writes Ian Trider, VP of RTB platform operations at Basis Technologies.
Managing digital campaigns for the mid-market is hard. Mid-marketers need to consider speed, smarts, scale and spend. But pick three, writes Marilois Snowman, CEO and founder of Mediastruction.
Commerce and retail media suddenly became an incredible tailwind for online advertising. But anyone banking on retail media networks to power programmatic growth for years to come needs a reality check, writes AdExchanger Senior Editor James Hercher.
Like F1 cars, the marketing world also generates data. The difference is it’s not connected to anything that can help brand managers make the kind of data-fueled decisions that have been a game changer for F1 teams, writes Andy Hopkinson, strategic director of Extreme Reach.
Today, there are so many flavors of in-housing. The term itself has become a bit like “programmatic,” where the meaning across organizations varies so greatly that there’s little point in using it on its own. What matters now isn’t how brands define “in-house” or if in fact they “in-house” at all – it’s whether they approach their digital advertising strategically and thoughtfully, writes Dan Larden, head of UK at TPA Digital.
