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  • Erez Levin, Principal, Emet Advisory

    Why 'Performance CTV' Is A Misnomer: TV Works Best As A Full-Funnel Channel

    “Performance CTV” oversimplifies how television actually drives value, and the focus on performance all but guarantees that campaign results will be misinterpreted.

  • Google AdSense Changes Publisher Payouts; The Costs (And Gains) Of Generative AI

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Making An Impression Starting early next year, Google AdSense publishers will see their payouts switch from a per click metric to per impression, the first change to its revenue sharing model in 20 years.  Paying per impression is the industry standard for how […]

  • Richard Girges, VP of Engineering, MNTN 

    Why Today’s CTV Attribution Models Fall Short

    CTV is poised to become the third “big scale” performance advertising channel, but is effective CTV attribution actually possible?

  • Meta is bringing all of its automated ad products together under a single roof.

    How Ad Industry Experts Are Putting AI To Work

    AI has many business applications, from automating manual processes and monitoring data in real time to targeting customers more accurately. And industry players are increasingly using AI in their day-to-day work.

  • Cary Lawrence, CEO of Decile

    If You’re Not Measuring LTV:CAC Ratio, You’re Missing Out On Growth

    Many marketers think of cost per acquisition (CPA) as the holy grail. But a better metric to consider is the lifetime customer value: acquisition cost ratio, also known as LTV:CAC, writes Cary Lawrence, CEO of Decile.

  • Michael Morris, co-founder of Hyperlocology

    Forget Proxy Performance KPIs. It’s Time To Focus On Revenue Again

    The digitization of advertising unleashed a torrent of easily measurable statistics for marketers to measure performance. These KPIs have their place in marketing strategy. But digital marketing has become too focused on proxy KPIs in lieu of the metric that matters most: revenue, writes Michael Morris, co-founder of Hyperlocology.

  • NBCU Struts Like A Peacock After Upfronts Haul; The Volunteers Who Keep The Internet Humming

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Paid Upfront NBCUniversal says this year’s upfronts was its highest-grossing since Comcast acquired the programmer in 2013.  Unsurprisingly, streaming media helped break the record. Of NBCU’s $7 billion in ad commitments, per a release, $1 billion is earmarked for its AVOD service Peacock […]

  • How Charlotte Tilbury Used AI To Deepen Its Data Pool

    Despite what you may have heard, artificial intelligence (AI) is not a magic solution for every problem facing the ad industry. But AI can help advertisers optimize the performance of their campaigns. Luxury beauty brand Charlotte Tilbury, for example, recently tested a custom integration with Scibids, a company that specializes in AI-based marketing solutions for the demand side. Over the course of two months, the brand was able to reduce its average cost per acquisition (CPA) by 29%.

  • Ines Henrich, VP of sales planning and media strategy at Aki Technologies

    Ignore No More: 3 Impending Privacy Changes You Need To Pay Attention To Right Now

    When it comes to privacy legislation, denial often comes before compliance. When GDPR went into effect back in 2018, some companies in the US simply ignored it, opting to shut down or limit operations in the EU instead of adjusting their data privacy practices. But with privacy legislation in California (CPRA), Colorado (CPA) and Virginia (VCDPA) set to go into effect 2023, American businesses will have no choice but to accept and act, says Ines Henrich, VP of sales planning and media strategy at Aki Technologies.

  • AppsFlyer found that global financial exposure to app install fraud clocked in at $1.6 billion during the first half of 2020.

    Game Apps Are Cutting Down On Install Fraud, But In-App Fraud Is Still A Big Problem

    Gaming apps are getting better at beating install fraud. Just 3.8% of paid installs are fraudulent among gaming apps, according to research published by AppsFlyer on Tuesday, compared with 32% of non-organic installs for apps in other categories. Finance apps have the highest app install fraud rate at 48%, for example, followed by travel apps […]

  • Trampoline Brand Springfree Uses CDP Tech To Lower Its CPA By Leaps And Bounds

    Not everyone’s in the market for a trampoline. And with the rising cost of customer acquisition, it’s vital to get the jump on consumers who are serious about making what’s both a niche and pricey purchase. For that, you need unified data across channels, said Saugar Sainju, VP of growth marketing at Goba Sports Group, […]

  • Madison Reed Enriches Its Data Strategy With A Focus On Lifetime Value

    Cost per acquisition (CPA) on Facebook has increased over the last few years as news feed ad load nears saturation. That’s a big problem for advertisers like DTC hair care and coloring company Madison Reed, which spends a large portion of its budget on Facebook. The company is always on the hunt for ways to […]

  • Facebook Rolls Out CPA Bidding For Hard Core Direct Marketers

    Facebook is rolling out Cost Per Action (CPA) bidding through its Ads API, the first time it has departed from CPM- and CPC-based ad pricing. The move is yet another attempt by Facebook to capture the performance marketing spend (see also: FBX retargeting, offline data matching, App Install ads) that continues to be the main […]