addressability

Indie agency KWG says sell-side curation can target more high-performing inventory with better match rates and lower data fees than buy-side curation.

Every conversation about addressability eventually lands on the same word: fragmentation. But the real symptom of that fragmentation isn’t just operational complexity; it’s also declining match rates. That single number explains why marketers are struggling to make their data work.

But publishers have more power than they think to authenticate their audiences – they’ve just gotta learn how to wield it.

Google’s decision not to deprecate cookies in the Chrome browser after all caused a stir across the industry. Companies invested heavily in developing solutions aligned with the Privacy Sandbox as a survival tactic for the post-cookie landscape. At first glance, Google’s about-face may appear to undercut those efforts.

If we’re to leave behind the third-party cookie era, the rest of the ecosystem must reassert the role it plays in setting the agenda.

Forget cookieless. Now it’s time for ID-less solutions. No doubt you’ve heard someone drop that buzzword in a conversation recently. But what are they, exactly?

It is time to evolve beyond the addiction to addressable targeting and deterministic attribution, driven not by fear and doubt but by a commitment to rediscover how the empirically proven fundamentals of marketing effectiveness can be applied to the digital media era.

While 2023’s return to fiscal responsibility made for rough waters, it will pale in comparison to 2024.  Here are eight trends worth watching.

On Tuesday, PubMatic entered the crowded retail media space with the launch of a self-service ad platform for commerce media called Convert.

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Goodway Group has chosen Jay Friedman as CEO. Friedman assumes the chief executive position after more than 16 years at the company, most recently as president. Former CEO David Wolk moves into the role of executive chairman.

P&G publicly signaled its support for Unified ID 2.0 on Thursday. But the CGP giant had already been using UID 2.0 since last year to create anonymized identifiers tied to its first-party data for activation in the bidstream.

The word “cookieless” crops up in virtually every conversation about the future of online identity. But what exactly do people mean when they say “cookieless”? Although the definition seems simple enough – the absence of cookies – it lacks the nuance to encompass the true complexity of signal loss. It’s also a misnomer.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hope And Pr-AVOD Ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) is commanding a lot of interest right now. Practically every ad tech company is banking on CTV to outgrow web display.  After all, the thinking goes, consumers can’t just keep shelling out for more and more […]

Change is coming to online identity, writes Anthony Katsur, CEO of the IAB Tech Lab. Resist the urge to plan based on hope or cynicism. Instead, focus on a defensible approach, whether you’re creating audiences as a publisher or connecting audiences between an advertiser and a publisher.

While Google is busy dismantling how the open web functions, the ad industry is busy trying to re-architect it. The IAB Tech Lab released several technical specifications for review on Tuesday in support of Project Rearc. The industry initiative began last year by developing a framework for online targeting without reliance on third-party cookies, including […]

Addressable TV advertising promises to deliver unique ads on a household-by-household or even individualized basis. The problem, however, is that the Nielsen ratings currency off which linear TV is transacted, isn’t designed to accommodate all that variability. And not being able to use the Nielsen rating on addressable ads keeps a lot of advertisers from […]

The video ad server and SSP SpotX boosted its addressable TV capabilities Tuesday by upgrading its platform, which can now replace linear ads on smart TVs in real time. This function can be enabled by content owners working through Project OAR, an open standard led by TV manufacturer VIZIO and whose founding members include AMC […]

Teamwork makes the dream work at the IAB Tech Lab’s Project Rearc. But where are Google and Apple? Sixteen ad tech companies and agencies pledged their support for Rearc on Tuesday, including GroupM, GumGum, Index Exchange, LiveRamp, MediaMath, Neustar, OpenX, Oracle Data Cloud, The Trade Desk and Xandr. The purpose of Project Rearc, which the […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Chris LaHaise, director of TV solutions at dataxu. LUMA Partners CEO Terry Kawaja recently named advanced TV as the thing he was most bullish about in the coming year. “I am most excited about […]