publisher first-party data

The New York Times is investing in generative AI for the same reason it’s been investing in first-party data for years. It wants to be self-sufficient.

Using lockrKeys, publishers can turn vendors on and off without a direct integration or the need to sign separate agreements with each of their data partners.

The third-party cookie actually stymied the development of digital advertising. Here’s what the cookie got wrong and what its inheritors need to get right.

Clean rooms are ad tech’s answer to data privacy. But they can also give advertisers more accurate reach and frequency measurement through first-party audience matching. Disney has been building out its clean room for roughly a year, and announced an integration with VideoAmp on Thursday, which will bolster clean room measurement with VideoAmp’s TV viewership data.

CTV is the hot new programmatic media channel, but it suffers from fraud, a lack of clear media-buying signals and a hodgepodge of approaches to measurement. The lack of standards is hampering market growth – but rather than waiting for standards to be handed down, publishers can create positive momentum with media buyers now, writes PubMatic’s Nicole Scaglione.

Seller-defined audiences, the IAB Tech Lab’s spec to help publishers work together to monetize their first-party data on the open web, is ready for prime time. The idea behind seller-defined audiences is to make a publisher’s own data and site traffic transactable programmatically across multiple sites and sellers in a privacy-safe way.

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Thanh Do, product marketing manager at Permutive. It’s no secret that Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) framework has rocked the advertising industry. Before the introduction of opt-in consent, 70% of users enabled cross-app tracking. […]

When former Fox executive Emiliano Saccone first launched Latin food and lifestyle site Cocina in 2017, audience development took precedence over monetization. “We had to do two things at the start that were not easy to do simultaneously,” said Saccone. He co-founded Cocina with celebrity chef Aarón Sánchez, who now serves as its creative director […]

Gannett CRO Kevin Gentzel kicks off nearly every morning by checking in virtually with one of the local sales teams that represent the hundreds of local media properties in the USA Today Network, from Indianapolis to the Treasure Coast of Florida. And he often ends his day on his Peloton for a joint ride with […]

When Reader’s Digest Association rebranded to Trusted Media Brands in 2014, a reporter commented to CEO and president Bonnie Kintzer at the time that “it’s not a sexy name.” “And I said, ‘Thank you, we’re not a sexy company,” Kintzer jokes in this week’s episode of AdExchanger Talks. The rebrand, though, helped kickstart an era […]