Measurement

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jordan Grossman, EVP of ad sales at GasBuddy. Remember back in the day when advertising was as simple as putting an ad up where you knew your target audience was going to be? It looks […]

In October, Mozilla, the nonprofit organization behind the Firefox browser, launched a marketing campaign to “unfck the internet,” because, well, the system is a little “fcked up,” said Lindsey Shepard, Mozilla’s CMO. “People are constantly being inundated with messages about complex topics, from data breaches to hacking, and a lot of big tech companies are […]

“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 Si Crowhurst, VP of Vungle Creative Labs. In early 2021, Apple will make its unique identifier for advertisers (IDFA) opt-in – meaning users will need to consent to being tracked […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trump Gets A Pass The Trump administration is reportedly getting the friends and family deal over at Facebook when it comes to the platform’s misinformation rules – which don’t seem to apply to prominent Trump associates and conservative groups, according to The Washington Post. The […]

Although Snap and Pinterest say they benefited revenue-wise from the Facebook boycott over the summer, Facebook barely felt a ding. Advertising made up nearly all of Facebook’s revenue in the quarter – $21.2 billion of $21.5 billion overall, a 22% year-over-year increase. And Facebook now has more than 10 million active advertisers across its services – […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Upfront Tax Advertisers might be holding out on their TV commits, but that delay will likely cost them, according to Tim Peterson of Digiday. Because of the pandemic, TV advertisers are clamoring to buy based on a calendar year rather than the traditional upfront calendar, […]

Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. The slow progress toward a solution to the cookie problem is partly due to “too many cooks in the kitchen,” says Hugo Loriot, a partner at You & Mr Jones-owned data agency fifty-five. “There are too many stakeholders […]

The ad industry is partially pinning its hopes on email as legacy identifiers get knocked off one by one. But hashed IDs, including emails and phone numbers, collected elsewhere cannot be used as a replacement for app tracking on iOS 14. That’s true whether or not the hashed identifiers were collected with consent. In its […]

This week the big stories are all Google, all the time. First, the Department of Justice uncorked its long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant. As previously speculated by multiple news outlets, the DOJ’s case homes in on Google’s search business. In this episode of The Big Story, the AdExchanger team talks about why the […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Quibi Bites The Dust Quibi will shut down its service a mere six months after launch, becoming one of the first – and most spectacular – casualties in the video streaming wars. It is a remarkable flameout for a company that had raised $1.75 billion before […]

For the past couple of months, Google has been actively testing its Privacy Sandbox proposal for interest-based cohorts, and the preliminary results are in. The proposal, dubbed FLoC – aka, “federated learning of cohorts” – calls for using on-device machine learning to group people based on their common browsing behavior as an alternative to third-party […]

“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 Malik Roberts, technical solution lead at Ad-Lib. As consumers, our data is becoming more private and less accessible. We’re becoming more difficult to track as we move around the internet, consume […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Rob Aksman, chief strategy officer at BrightLine. Unlike in the tech-inhibited world of pre-connected TV, CTV has the power to unlock precise measurement and targeting at scale. In most US households today, TV content is […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. DAR She Blows Nielsen’s Digital Ad Ratings and Total Ad Ratings products can now measure YouTube and YouTube TV inventory when streamed through connected TV platforms. As MediaPost points out, Nielsen’s two ad ratings solutions can already measure YouTube and YouTube TV inventory on PCs, laptops […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column by Steven Golus, founder at Steven Golus Consulting, is the fourth and last in a series that presents the fundamentals of how TV advertising works and how it is changing. In our previous article, we unpacked the […]

Google is revamping Google Analytics for a world in which privacy plays center stage and identifiers are exiting stage left. The new version of Google Analytics, released on Wednesday, was in beta for more than a year, and will now be the default experience for all users. The updated product includes privacy controls to help […]

The House’s antitrust report on big tech, released last week, described the lopsided power dynamic at the W3C, where several “market participants” interviewed by the subcommittee said that they felt “bullied” by Google. The report claims that Google uses Chrome’s dominance in the browser market to “effectively set standards for the industry.” First, Chrome has […]

“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 […]

This article is sponsored by Moat by Oracle Data Cloud. When it comes to TV commercials, the difference between a successful ad and a failure can be difficult to pin down. Sometimes the timing was wrong, or the target demographic was off – and other times the message simply didn’t resonate. Whatever the reason, advertising […]

Is Google finally listening to the ad tech industry? The introduction of the Dovekey spec last week – which embraced one of the key concepts laid out in Criteo’s SPARROW proposal – indicates that maybe, finally, the W3C’s Improving Web Advertising Business Group is making some headway. But, as always, we need to take these […]

The mobile ad ecosystem has changed a lot since MoPub, Twitter’s mobile ad exchange, was founded in 2010. Tech years are like dog years, and a decade might as well be a century. But the more some things change, the more they stay the same: Marketers still need some convincing to spend on mobile and […]

An investigative report from the UK’s Channel Four News team on Monday accused the 2016 Trump election campaign of actively trying to suppress the Black vote. The expose claims that Trump’s digital team targeted negative ads about Hillary Clinton at 3.5 million Black American voters in battleground states with the hope that they wouldn’t show […]

Another day, another avian-themed web standard proposal in the Chrome Privacy Sandbox. Meet Dovekey, which was committed to GitHub on Wednesday. But there’s something a little different about this proposed spec. It’s the first time that Google has incorporated an ad industry proposal into one of its own, and it’s encouraging to see a kernel […]

“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 John Sabella, CTO at PubMatic. As Google Chrome slowly dribbles out concepts for a cookieless future with little structure, many media buyers in the industry are getting restless to have […]

“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 Allison Schiff, senior editor at AdExchanger. It’s part of a series of perspectives from AdExchanger’s editorial team. The ad industry is facing a pair of interrelated existential threats: government regulation and […]

Eliminating arbitrage will become even more important after Apple implements its IDFA changes. Realistically, anywhere from 30% to 80% of a publisher’s traffic is being arbitraged, said Nathan Levin, CEO and founder of Mobile UA Ltd., a one-man consultancy he founded in 2018 to help developers navigate the mobile ecosystem’s complexities and tripwires. His clients […]

YouTube’s quest to siphon TV budgets took another couple of steps Wednesday, when the video platform unveiled “advanced contextual targeting” (ACT), as well as the ability to use third-party data to plan and measure YouTube campaigns in a handful of new countries. ACT now, folks Advanced contextual targeting is a wholesale upgrade of the existing […]

How do you target people without third-party cookies or device IDs? One way is to use the weather correlated with aggregated online and offline shopping behavior. IBM Watson Advertising released a tool on Monday that expands its weather targeting capabilities by using artificial intelligence to analyze the relationship between weather data from The Weather Company, […]

Epsilon is helping clients prepare for the new world of digital marketing that will follow after the deprecation of third-party cookies in Chrome and IDFA on Apple devices. While Epsilon’s ID graph still uses cookies and mobile ad IDs while they’re available, its CORE ID relies on deterministic matches against transactions and conversions, such as […]

“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 Katie Hutcherson Madding, VP of product at Adjust. With the restrictions on IDFA scheduled for release in early 2021, app developers have a new and business-critical challenge ahead: the user opt-in. […]