CTV spending is flattening, performance is plateauing and buyers are hesitant to push budgets further. The reason is not complicated. When buyers cannot see what they are buying, they cannot commit their spend with conviction.
A quarter of all Connected TV (CTV) bid requests can’t be trusted.
That doesn’t mean fraud every time. Sometimes, it’s incomplete data. Sometimes, it’s oversimplified or mislabeled content. And sometimes, it’s more intentional misrepresentation. But the effect is the same: Advertisers don’t know if they’re getting what they paid for and publishers can’t be sure they’re getting fair value for their inventory.
Through Index Exchange’s data vendor marketplace, curators gain access to third-party data sets without needing their own integrations.
Brands don’t feel secure enough to lock in huge CTV deals outside of live sports. So what happens to all of that nonsports content spread out across streaming channels?
Where and how brands choose to advertise is perceived as a reflection of the brand itself. That means we’ve entered the era of responsible advertising.
Throughout the CTV market, there is an ongoing push for higher levels of transparency and control – and for good reason. Advertisers need deeper insights into the audiences and types of content surrounding their ads if they want to drive maximal interest.
Digital media agency Hotspex Media’s emotional contextual tool, Reticle AI, analyzes the emotions an ad is trying to evoke and the context of where the ad might show up to find congruent ad placements.
URLs and domains – even those of big-name publisher brands – cannot be trusted in isolation. Buyers need to look at page-level data, too.
2023 saw SPO become further cemented in the strategies of DSPs and SSPs for capturing market share. But the long-term trend might see SPO become the default for programmatic advertisers.
NewsGuard created a whitelist of publishers based in Ukraine, where the news media market has been in decline since the Russian invasion began in February 2022.
Brands need to start preparing for a contentious election season, crafting strategies for how they’ll deal with hot-button issues.
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.
Google’s decision to kick the can on cookie deprecation even further down the road to 2024 did not come as a shock to many in the digital advertising industry. The longer runway will give advertisers and publishers more time to test post-third-party-cookie solutions. But despite the temptation to procrastinate, publishers and tech vendors told AdExchanger they don’t anticipate straying too far from the road maps they’d already established to meet the previous 2023 deadline.
Ad agencies are understaffed and their clients – small businesses in particular – often don’t have the time or the technical background to sift through reams of campaign data. And so, increasingly, they’re turning to automation to cut down on the more tedious and time-consuming aspects of account management. Tag, an independent agency based in Iowa, uses a suite of automated reporting tools, including from Basis Technologies, to communicate cross-platform campaign metrics to its clients.
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Peer39 CEO Mario Diez. CTV remains one of the brightest spots in the advertising landscape. As with all emerging media, advertisers are eager to follow consumers wherever they go. And because CTV combines the time-tested […]
Contextual targeting vendor Peer39 is capitalizing on the craze for all things cookieless with the rollout of a contextual data marketplace that aggregates data from atypical sources to apply against programmatic buys. The marketplace, which came out of beta on Tuesday after more than a year, includes cookie-free data sets from suppliers such as Hotspex […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Alex White, COO at Peer39. While conversations around connected TV tend to center on the leading streaming services, there are more than 200 CTV providers. A complex, fragmented ecosystem has created a lot of […]
“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 Mario Diez, CEO at Peer39. Programmatic spending has slouched as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, and with more than half of global brands planning to freeze ad spend for the next […]
“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 Mario Diez, CEO at Peer39. Behavioral is the dominant method for targeting online advertising, to the point where it’s become nearly synonymous with the concepts of both “targeting” and programmatic advertising […]
The Sizmek bankruptcy auction officially closed on Thursday with the announcement that Peer39, the company’s contextual targeting unit, was sold to the private equity firm O3 Industries for $18 million. The Trade Desk and Zefr, a contextual targeting company primarily for YouTube, also submitted bids for the final Peer39 auction last week, according to sources […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Without Peer Sizmek offloaded its contextual advertising company Peer39 to private equity firm O3 Industries for $18 million, Business Insider’s Lauren Johnson reports. O3 reportedly beat out other bidders including The Trade Desk and Zefr. So what’s the future of Peer39? Mario Diez, whose […]
Mobext, the mobile arm of Havas Media Group, is hoping to get away from using pain-in-the-neck manual whitelists and blacklists to manage brand safety and contextual placements. Consequently, it’s been testing the fruits of an integration – revealed Wednesday – between Peer39, the brand safety and online semantic platform Sizmek bought in 2012, and StrikeAd, […]
It’s been over a year since ad tech and video ad distribution company DG acquired semantic data provider Peer39 and folded it into DG’s MediaMind online division. During that time, Peer39-er Alex White has had a front row seat to his company’s integration into DG with his new role as GM of DG’s Data and Trading operations. […]
AdBrite morphed into an ad exchange platform four years ago after shifting gears from its ad network beginnings, but the company was never recognized for making the full leap. Back in May, its board decided it was time for a change and brought in former Yahoo/Right Media executive Hardeep Bindra to make the evolution complete. […]
By John Ebbert, Managing Editor, AdExchanger.com. “Hey Frankie – have you heard? Brand safety solutions are the rage!” [Cue the surf music.] Within the recent demand-side platform (DSP) trend where advertisers effect buying strategies across multiple supply sources – and potentially hundreds of websites -, a growing list of companies and products is emerging to […]
Amiad Solomon is CEO of Peer39, an online semantic advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: Please describe momentum in 2009 for Peer39. AS: This has been a breakout year for us as we have been recognized as the leading innovator in the field of semantic advertising and targeting. Early in 2009 we started working primarily with publishers […]
