For all of Ad Tech Land’s excitement about new and emerging CTV-specific ad formats, many commercial brands are still hesitant to try some of these new formats for themselves.
Marketers who are curious about the bias in their campaign targeting can put their media plans to the test by running them through a free open-source toolkit built by IBM. The idea behind using the tool, dubbed the Advertising Toolkit for AI Fairness 360, is to stay a step ahead of regulation by making sure the ad industry roots out bias in campaign planning, especially the invisible kind that can be amplified by a reliance on data segments (even a marketer’s first-party data) and black box algorithms.
AI can help mitigate bias in advertising – but it’s still early days. On Wednesday, IBM Watson Advertising and the 4A’s released findings from a six-month research project that used AI to analyze data from The Ad Council’s “It’s Up to You” COVID-19 vaccine education campaign.
The Ad Council said Thursday it has launched a programmatic private marketplace (PMP) for public service announcements related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This initiative is its first major foray into donated programmatic media, though it has experimented with targeting audiences on social and specific publishers. The Ad Council coordinates public service advertising campaigns for a […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. If you’re looking for proof that advertising can be a force for good in the world, look no further than the Ad Council. The non-profit draws more than $1 billion in donated media annually, and creatively its work […]
