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The open web is dead; long live the open web. It’s healthy; it’s full of opportunity; it’s doomed; it’s a mess. Also, what even is the open web, and do consumers care about the definition?

For companies testing the Chrome Privacy Sandbox, another delay was starting to feel inevitable, even before Google shifted its deprecation deadline.

While LLMs are demonstrating their usefulness for marketing, they are less well suited to solving challenges in performance advertising, which require learning from numerical data, not words.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Zero-Sum Game Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive, the video game developer that makes Grand Theft Auto, bemoaned the lack of pricing power for gaming properties during the company’s earnings report this week, eXputer reports. Zelnick believes video games should be priced […]

Consent is becoming one of the most important requirements in online advertising – and InMobi wants to help publishers collect it.

Mergers and acquisitions, the industry’s slow-motion pivot away from third-party data and the expansion of commerce-based business dominated the headlines for media and sell-side ad tech in 2021. What does the industry predict for 2022? More of the same as these trends continue to play out in the year ahead. First-party first In 2022 and […]

Consider 2021 the age of consent. The end of third-party cookies is pushing nearly everyone in the supply chain to try to figure out how to get consumers to opt in – including a growing number of ad tech companies that are attempting to create their own consumer-facing consent mechanisms. It’s a new and largely […]

Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Publishers enter 2021 in a position of strength, but only if they can overcome the data disadvantages that created their long self-inflicted servitude to big tech companies. This week’s guest on AdExchanger Talks, Quantast VP of product management […]

Quantcast laid off just under 5% of its staff and implemented tiered pay cuts due to the economic impact of coronavirus. The salary cuts are tiered according to compensation level, with some employees taking 5% cuts and the highest-paid employees taking 30% cuts. Its global staff numbers more than 600 employees, according to Quantcast. CEO […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Us Too Newly merged ViacomCBS will throw its hat into a crowded ring of streaming services with a new service that spans its whole content portfolio, joining its current OTT vehicle CBS All Access. Nothing is set in stone, but executives are considering an […]

Quantcast began monetizing its consent management platform (CMP) business for the first time on Thursday with the launch of Choice Premium, a paid version of the publisher tool. Quantcast Choice was released about a year ago with the introduction of the IAB Europe’s CMP registry and the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF), the collaborative industry […]

What kind of stories do people in market for a luxury SUV read? Forbes is answering that question using data, not a gut feeling, so brands can buy sponsorships and branded content based on what resonates with an audience. That question was once impossible to answer. Publishers would know, for instance, if readers indexed highly […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Somer Simpson, GDPR product lead at Quantcast. The May 25 deadline to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is only weeks away. When it comes into effect, website owners that want to […]

Ad tech companies flocked to Washington, DC, during the recent election cycle in pursuit of political ad budgets, but many were disappointed. Rocket Fuel was the most aggressive newcomer, adding approximately 15 people to its DC office for political business development beginning last summer. But the company dismissed most of those hires in the week […]

“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 Seph Zdarko, director of data, modeling, partnerships and attribution initiatives at Quantcast. The Oxford English Dictionary and Google tell us that the word “fraud” has Latin origin. Cheating people through criminal deception […]

The extent to which data drives an online brand’s marketing varies distinctly, a key theme that emerged at Quantcast’s data summit in New York on Thursday. For Blue Apron, a subscription commerce site and meal delivery service, data helps refine the online experience but is less applied to offline investments. For Amazon-owned shoe and apparel […]

Quantcast is tapping its deep ties to publishers by linking digital data signals to offline attributes like sales and TV viewership. The company is rooted in direct audience measurement and embeds its tags across millions of publisher pages. By looking at this data anonymously in aggregate, Quantcast can supply advertisers and publishers with intel around cross-site […]

“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 Seph Zdarko, head of attribution initiatives and partner strategy at Quantcast. Attribution models were designed with the best of intentions: to help advertisers understand which ads lead their users to convert and […]

Self-serve programmatic media buying is gaining favor with the in-house marketing set. That was a key trend that emerged at AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O conference in San Francisco Monday, where approximately 500 marketers and data-driven tech companies convened to share how programmatic media buying is changing advertising. At the outset of the show, AdExchanger Director 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 Seph Zdarko, head of attribution initiatives and partner strategy at Quantcast. Attribution is one of the most critical issues in digital advertising today. Proper attribution provides insights, incentives and controls over ad […]

As often happens with emerging channels, advertising dollars are still way behind when it comes to matching the time spent on smartphones and tablets. One barrier to greater spending is the lack of measurement of both the mobile web and app activity, but online analytics provider Quantcast is trying to tie usage across devices together […]

Looking at the 2012 holiday shopping season, retailers with ecommerce websites deployed more marketing technologies, including social plug-ins, than in 2011, according to data gathered from Evidon and analyzed by kbs+ Ventures, the investing arm of kirshenbaum bond senecal + partners. Kbs+ Ventures analyzed 20 retail brands including Best Buy, Old Navy, Gilt, Piperlime, Gap, […]

Although Quantcast has often discouraged observers from attempting to group the analytics provider into the “ad effectiveness” category with comScore, Integral Ad Science (fka “AdSafe”), DoubleVerify and others, its acquisition this morning of MakeGood Software would appear to put the company in closer competition with those parties. In a post on Quantcast’s blog, CEO Konrad […]

Online analytics provider Quantcast is unveiling a new self-service tool for its brand targeting solution, Quantcast Advertise for Branding. After months of beta, starting today publishers and advertisers can better manage deals directly based on specified audiences. Quantcast CEO Konrad Feldman told AdExchanger the goal is to be viewed as the company that makes real-time bidding and […]

Quantcast announced yesterday that they are offering their traffic data and audience insights globally by local country. CEO Konrad Feldman discussed the company’s global push. AdExchanger.com: How did you determine that Quantcast is the “World’s Favorite Audience Measurement Solution”? KF: Every week thousands of websites choose Quantcast to provide them with audience measurement and insights. […]

Quantcast announced a recent deal with MTV Networks in which Quantcast will offer “audience targeting capabilities on sites in MTVN’s domestic online portfolio, including MTV.com, VH1.com, ComedyCentral.com and Spike.com, as well as on partner sites in the company’s Tribes vertical ad network.” Read the release. Quantcast CRO Todd Teresi discussed the announcement and its cross-channel, […]

Quantcast announced a $27.5 million Series C round of funding which included investment by Cisco. Read the release. Quantcast CEO Konrad Feldman answered a couple of questions for AdExchanger.com about the new investment. AdExchanger.com: It seems apparent that Cisco’s investment is strategic. Did you go looking for a strategic partner specifically with this round? KF: […]

Roll out the red carpet as the annual, biggest-week-in-ad-technology erupts next week in New York City. Contenders (and maybe a few pretenders) will take part in the OMMA Ad Nets show on Tuesday, November 3 and ad:tech New York show to be held from November 4-6. OMMA Ad Nets at the Crowne Plaza Times Square, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Lookery Closes Its Doors No more Lookery. CEO Scott Rafer announced from the Lookery blog that the Company is winding down operations. Rafer offers a post mortem of regrets and/or mis-steps that he believes, if avoided, could have led to a different conclusion such […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Portals, Publishers and Networks, Oh My! Citing three years of data that include more than 4,800 marketing campaigns collected by WPP’s Dynamic Logic, The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel delivers the details on a new OPA study which says that large publisher’s premium (i.e. […]