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  • Scott McDonald, President and CEO of the Advertising Research Foundation

    3 Ways Advertisers Can Effectively Gather More First-Party Data

    There are three key ways in which the industry can do a better job of selling customers on the value exchange they’ll see from sharing their data with brands, writes Scott McDonald, President and CEO of the Advertising Research Foundation.

  • Insta Gets A Bit Too Extra; Validating Attention-Based Validation

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Insta Needs Its Groove Back Instagram has (mostly) been able to balance its business priorities with the interests of its users. But its streak is over. Instagram is struggling to recruit people to create content for its TikTok clone, Reels, The Wall Street […]

  • The Sky Is Not Falling

    “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 by Scott McDonald Ph.D, President and CEO at the Advertising Research Foundation.   For more than a year, close industry observers have endured an unending stream of angst about digital marketing disruption […]