The advertising market needs a more cohesive path from the campaign brief to the live buy. Answering a mobile RFP can take three to five days and require four teams across research, audience building, supply vetting and deal setup. Much of that time goes toward assembling evidence and moving information between functions rather than making the decisions that shape the campaign.
With an anticipated viewership of more than 1.5 billion people, the 2026 World Cup is expected to represent the most-watched live event in history. For advertisers, that creates an obvious opportunity to reach soccer fans around matches, highlights, team coverage and tournament content.
When it comes to identity, most marketers moved past third-party cookie concerns a long time ago. Identity today is not about a single technology or solution; it is about learning how to combine different signals in ways that allow campaigns to reach real people across channels while respecting privacy and maintaining performance.
The ad tech industry is great at creating new buzzwords, but less successful at defining them.
Take curation: Every major ad tech platform claims to do it, but there are conflicting definitions of what it is or how it works.
The programmatic advertising landscape has evolved significantly since its inception, introducing new complexities and challenges for both buyers and sellers.
One morning in the near future, you’ll open your favorite mobile app or visit your favorite website and face a sign-up wall that didn’t exist before. Targeted advertising is under threat.
Advertisers are laser-focused on the seismic shift happening next year with the deprecation of third-party cookies on Google Chrome. But it’s not just cookies on Chrome – Google’s Sandbox initiative is also targeting mobile signals on Android.
The last few years saw the app giants take over the mobile app ecosystem, wielding brute strength to overwhelm the smaller publishers whose innovation and risk-taking historically drove things forward. But generative AI is leveling the playing field, giving small and midsize app developers the ability to create new apps and innovate on existing platforms dramatically faster with substantially fewer resources.
Back in 2016, Apple introduced search ads for the first time. Since then, it has transformed this new source of revenue into a growth strategy. As a result, today, the ad tech industry is no longer a titans’ dual between Google and Meta. Apple is also taking a prominent position.
