Personalization and customization are great, but when marketers go overboard with targeting, they don’t cast a wide enough net to attract new customers and foster growth, says JP Jansen, SVP of marketing and CMO for North America at Mars Pet Nutrition.
Google’s ad preference center is ready for prime time. The purpose of My Ad Center, which started rolling out to users on Thursday after first being teased in May, is to serve as a hub for tools that give people control over the ads they see and the data used to target them. “People are […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Paul Childs, VP of business development, Moloco. Ever since the advent of the printing press, advertisers have looked to content publishers – from newspapers and TV shows to websites and mobile apps – to hawk […]
“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 Diane Perlman, CMO of Blis. The digital advertising industry is locked in the fight of its life right now. The combination of international privacy regulations, such as GDPR, CCPA and […]
On Thursday, iOS 15 beta testers who opened Apple’s App Store or Stock apps were presented with a pop-up requesting permission to enable personalized advertising. This is the first time Apple has asked users to opt in to personalized ads in its own apps. It’s a big deal, but there’s also a big caveat: Personalized […]
Google is making it more difficult for advertisers to track users on Android – but, unlike Apple, it’s not going for the nuclear option. At least not yet. On Tuesday, Google alerted developers about its plan to completely obfuscate the Android advertising ID of users that choose to opt out of tracking and personalized advertising. Today, […]
Facebook’s ability to generate buckets of ad revenue frankly makes its earnings reports a bit … boring. The company shared results for Q1 on Wednesday. Advertising revenue for the first quarter was up 46% year-over-year to $25.4 billion dollars, accelerating across all regions. Average revenue per user in the United States and Canada clocked in […]
The pandemic accelerated the shift to ecommerce for everything from groceries, exercise equipment, furniture – and art. Artsy, an online marketplace for buying and selling fine art, saw its ecommerce business grow 150% last year as people looked to beautify their homes or make some extra cash by selling art on consignment. Galleries and museums struggled […]
How to manage the tradeoff between personalized advertising and privacy is a familiar debate. Whether personalized advertising – or advertising, full stop – works is a less common direction. But in a debate organized by Facebook (surprise!) between IAB CEO Randall Rothenberg and “Subprime Attention Crisis” author Tim Hwang, Hwang challenged the widely accepted notion […]
