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    Google’s Temporary Opt-Out; Finding Your Fans

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Maxxed Out Google will temporarily allow opt-outs for its search partner network, GSP, which serves ads for searches on non-Google sites, Adweek reports. Google is responding to a report last week by Adalytics, an ad tech auditing outfit. Adalytics demonstrated how Google advertisers […]

  • Criteo Is Waiting For The Shopify Deal; About Time (To Remove Its Paywall)

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Audiences Worth Waiting For Criteo announced the “next phase of its integration with Shopify,” which is an update to its Shopify App Store. It’s not news that’ll set the world on fire, but Criteo maintains a drumbeat of Shopify integrations. Criteo’s Shopify merchant […]

  • Data Sharing Is Caring, With Rebel AI CEO Manny Puentes

    Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Our guest this week has spent his entire career in ad tech. Since 1997, Manny Puentes has worked at a series of companies ranging from ad servers to publisher networks to programmatic platforms. In 2016, he founded Rebel […]

  • First-Party Consent Can Replace Third-Party Cookies

    “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 Manny Puentes, founder and CEO at Rebel AI. Google’s recent decision to deprecate third-party cookies on Chrome will severely cripple browser-based targeting, cross-site tracking, frequency capping and retargeting. Ad platforms […]

  • In the Age of AI, Publishers Need Authenticated Audiences

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, founder and CEO at Rebel AI. Though Facebook has only recently come under fire for fake user profiles on its platform, the problem of fake profile data has long plagued programmatic media […]

  • In The GDPR Era, Publishers Also Need A Data Opt-Out

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, founder and CEO at Rebel AI. The average page load on an ad-supported website includes 172 network requests just for advertising, according to recent research. That’s 172 opportunities for a publisher’s audience […]

  • Bidders Must Value Brand For Publisher Alliances To Succeed

    “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 Manny Puentes, founder and CEO at Rebel AI. Every time we shop, we make the decision to purchase either a brand item or its generic equivalent. We assume generic laundry […]

  • Ads.txt: A Web 1.0 Solution To A Web 3.0 Problem

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, founder and CEO at Rebel AI. A certified letter might make its way through a number of post offices as it travels from Point A to Point B, but neither the sender […]

  • What Blockchain Can (And Can’t) Solve For Ad Tech

    “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 Manny Puentes, founder and CEO at Rebel AI. Few technologies are riding as high on the hype curve right now as blockchain. With its distributed nature, smart contract functionality and […]

  • Methbot’s Hidden Cost: Publisher Data Integrity

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, founder and CEO at Rebel AI. Although White Ops estimated that Methbot siphoned $3 million to $5 million per day from advertisers, fraud where domains are falsified carry a hidden price tag […]

  • Is Audibility The New Viewability?

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, chief technology officer at Altitude Digital.  Following the industry’s adoption of viewability as a core metric, even moving toward transacting on vCPM, advertisers are now eyeing other measures that can tell them […]

  • The End Of The SSP Era

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, chief technology officer at Altitude Digital.  The ad tech LUMAscape has long been contracting, but one categorical staple of the cluttered landscape is now in danger of disappearing entirely. The supply-side platform […]

  • As Video Brings More Efficiency To Programmatic, Will It Translate To TV?

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, chief technology officer at Altitude Digital.  Programmatic has long promised to make interactions between publishers and buyers more scalable and efficient, but over the years the opposite has occurred. Now the landscape […]

  • Predicting Video Viewability Is The Next Step To Transacting On It

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, chief technology officer at Altitude Digital.  The digital advertising industry is moving toward transacting on viewable impressions rather than the rendered impression, also known as the classic CPM. This is already the […]

  • Publishers Must Prepare For Chrome’s Flash-Pausing Update

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, chief technology officer at Altitude Digital. Google recently announced that its popular Chrome browser, at nearly half of the worldwide browser market, will soon “intelligently pause” any Flash content not central to […]

  • What Can Programmatic TV Learn From Display?

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, chief technology officer at Altitude Digital.  For the first time this year, more than half of digital display advertising spending will be transacted programmatically. The practice of media trading with RTB, private […]

  • Engagement Metrics Can Help Publishers Detect Ad Fraud

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, chief technology officer at Altitude Digital. Ad fraud is present across all layers of the advertising ecosystem, but there is one behavioral factor that is more likely to predict the presence of […]