ARCHIVE FOR:

Zach Edwards

  • A Field Guide To The Privacy Sandbox

    Amazon Turns The CTV Supply Spigot; A Mess In The Sandbox

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Prime Time Ads have arrived on Prime Video.  But audiences have just about had it with streaming services that nickel-and-dime them, The Wall Street Journal reports. Instead of forking over an additional $3 per month to avoid ads, many have canceled their Amazon […]

  • Google Doles Out Refunds After Adalytics Drama; ESPN: Stream It Or Sell It?

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Google Gripe Google is refunding agencies for “billing discrepancies,” aka ads that ran in places where they weren’t supposed to, Ad Age reports. The refunds (which Google refers to as credits) closely follow the viral Adalytics report alleging that YouTube placed TrueView ad […]

  • Comic: Surveillance Advertising

    Instagram Finally Lets Links In Bios; If You Reddit, You Buy It

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Missing Link Instagram now lets users link to multiple external sites from their bio page.  Sounds minor, but it’s a concession creators have begged for from virtually every social platform for years. In fact, TechCrunch reports, Instagram is only loosening the policy […]

  • A Walk Down Ad Fraud Memory Lane With Zach Edwards

    In this episode, we’ll take a walk down memory lane with Zach Edwards, Human’s senior manager for threat insights to see what progress the online ad industry has made when it comes to basic privacy and security measures.

  • Comic: Privacy Patrol

    Living With Ad Fraud; Are You Seeing Red Or Green?

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. In Residence Residential IP networks (Honeygain, EarnApp and Pawns.app, to name a few) are services that pay people for access to their IP, usually something like $25 to $75 per month, depending on how much data they share. It’s a useful service for […]

  • The kids are online, but their data is not all right.

    60% Of School Apps Are Improperly Sharing Student Data With Third Parties

    The kids are online, but their data is not all right. The majority of school utility apps used by kids and parents are pervasively sharing student data with third parties through advertising and analytics software development kits (SDKs), including those provided for free by Google and Facebook. On average, school apps have more than 10 […]

  • Google Is Accused Of Leaking Data Through A GDPR Workaround – But What’s Really Going On Here?

    By Allison Schiff and James Hercher Are Google’s cookie syncing capabilities a violation of consumer privacy or are they common industry practice? The answer to both could be “yes.” This new data debate, which fired up the ad tech industry, was sparked Wednesday when ad browser Brave’s chief policy officer, Johnny Ryan, asserted that Google’s […]