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This article is sponsored by Connexity. The Google/Facebook/Amazon hegemony isn’t falling anytime soon, but the familiarity of ad offerings and constant swerves in consumer behavior are driving retailers to investigate new tactics. “Google, Facebook and Amazon are obviously still important to digital strategy, but they’re becoming increasingly crowded and challenging,” according to Bob Caputo, EVP, […]

This article is sponsored by GroundTruth. As consumers continue to evolve the way they shop and interact with brands, accuracy has become more critical than ever for advertisers and publishers. Relationships across the ad tech spectrum now strongly depend on truth in data, and increasingly this applies not only to online data but to location-based […]

This article is sponsored by RTB House. Google’s recently updated timeline for phasing out third-party cookies in Chrome wasn’t the end of the story. Late on Friday, July 23, Google launched a dedicated website with a more detailed running timeline, which it plans to update every month. It announced the website’s launch via tweet rather […]

By Aaron Martin, Director, Product Management, Forecasting and Inventory Management, Xandr This article is sponsored by Xandr. It’s a transformational time for television consumption. The entire industry is focused on finding the best ways to reach audiences across the different delivery platforms used by consumers. Success will require a technological bridge between digital and linear […]

By Harsh Jiandani, General Manager, Xandr Curate, Xandr This article is sponsored by Xandr. Until now, private marketplaces (PMPs) have been a popular tool for publishers to package their own data with their own inventory to sell to buyers. A new practice, however, is emerging in the industry and expanding the revenue potential in PMP […]

This article is sponsored by Adelaide Metrics. In the classic Where’s Waldo? books, Waldo was visible – but often well-hidden in a sea of other people. It often took several minutes before you could find him in the crowd – spotted only because of his famous red-and-white striped hat. Today, on many websites, ad placements […]

By Aaron Jackson, Chief Growth Officer at Eyeota This article is sponsored by Eyeota. The United States stands alone when it comes to its insistence on a predominantly deterministic approach to data-driven marketing. Because of that, the ongoing shifts in the privacy landscape – from Apple’s IDFA deprecation to Google’s third-party cookie shutdown and beyond […]

By Ross Nicol, VP EMEA, Zefr This article is sponsored by Zefr. The Global Alliance of Responsible Media (GARM) suitability standards represent a sea change for the industry. To this point, polarizing opinions about what counts as appropriate content created debilitating and often damaging confusion. This became especially apparent in the use of blunt keyword […]

This article is sponsored by Verizon Media. It’s been well past a decade since we started talking about the fundamentals of audience targeting: concepts like profile (demo, technographic), behavioral, retargeting, location and advertiser-owned first party data. These have been, and will continue to be, the basis of a foundational audience-driven advertising strategy. Somewhere along the […]

This article is sponsored by Criteo. The “Cookie-pocalypse” or the “Identity Revolution.” Whatever you call it, digital advertising is undergoing a massive transition as the deprecation of third-party cookies gets closer. With 2022 fast approaching, the question of what this means for personalized advertising still lingers. To help marketers successfully navigate this changing ecosystem, it’s […]

This article is sponsored by HUMAN. To Whom it May Concern: First of all, let us say that we’re big fans of your work. That thing you did earlier this spring with the WandaVision ending? Awesome. And we’re still talking about Orange is the New Black, and that’s been over for ages (at least in […]

This article is sponsored by Eyeota. There’s little doubt that “cohorts” will be topping the list of 2021 marketing buzzwords, and that’s largely because of the ongoing developments around Google’s plans to phase out third-party cookies on Chrome next year. As Google has rolled out new details for its interest-based advertising opportunities, all eyes have […]

This article is sponsored by Xandr. As upfronts season approaches, programmatic guaranteed promises to play a major role in the conversation in ways never thought possible a few years ago. While once considered a pipe dream, programmatic technology has evolved, garnering the ability to instill full confidence in highly predictable delivery among all marketplace participants. […]

This article is sponsored by LiveIntent. At LiveIntent, we fully support consumer privacy. There is an organic desire for consumer privacy, transparency and choice from the public and it must be respected. However, there isn’t an organic desire from the public to have Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon be the outsize beneficiaries of these privacy […]

This article is sponsored by InMobi Exchange. Addressability – how brands can reach specific audiences through advertising – is in the spotlight, as legal frameworks (GPDR, CCPA) and privacy initiatives (Google no longer supporting third-party cookies, Apple depreciating IDFAs) impact user-level targeting. On top of this, the consumer media landscape is now more fragmented than […]

This article is sponsored by Xandr. To an outsider, advertising can often be perceived as glorified and theatrical. While at times true, in reality advertising is the means to an end for a particular business goal. The goals vary across industries. In healthcare, for example, it might be educating communities about COVID vaccinations, while in […]

This article is sponsored by the Post-IDFA Alliance, including Chartboost, Fyber, InMobi, Liftoff, Singular, Adcolony and Vungle. When it comes to the impending App Tracking and Transparency (ATT) framework that is included in the iOS 14.5 update, everyone has their own opinion. There are those who believe Apple has truly altruistic motives to deliver greater […]

This article is sponsored by Xandr. We have all encountered the problem: What’s promised is not always what’s delivered.  In the past decade, advertisers have seen a seismic shift in how consumers receive media. With more on-demand services added every year, the future of entertainment is becoming evident. This change comes with many challenges, but […]

This article is sponsored by Criteo. Since mandated quarantines and reduced in-store shopping first became our reality early in 2020, global ecommerce has experienced a rapid rise. There have been millions of first-time ecommerce buyers, and as consumers have become accustomed to the convenience of the e-commerce experience, it is likely the new shopping behaviors […]

This article is sponsored by the Post-IDFA Alliance including Chartboost, Fyber, InMobi, Liftoff, Singular, Adcolony and Vungle.  With the iOS 14.5 update rapidly approaching later this month, many advertisers are preparing for the worst. Who can blame them? At this point, they’ve heard the warnings about unmeasurable ad inventory and slow publisher adoption of the […]

This article is sponsored by Oracle. If you spent most of 2020 counting down the days until 2021, then you’re not alone. For marketers, and almost everyone else for that matter, 2021 represents a hopeful restart – a potential shift back to normalcy, where budgets return to their pre-pandemic levels, plans are executed at a […]

This article is sponsored by LiveRamp. After an unprecedented 2020, this year has already seen a series of announcements around the impending end of third-party cookies, restrictions on mobile IDs and potential solutions. As the ad ecosystem evolves rapidly, it’s clear there is an immediate need for identity solutions that restore consumer trust, are durable […]

This article is sponsored by the Post-IDFA Alliance including Chartboost, Fyber, InMobi, Liftoff, Singular, Adcolony and Vungle. Last June, Apple announced the beginning of the end for the Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) at the app level. Starting with the upcoming iOS 14.5 update, app publishers, DSPs and mobile measurement partners will no longer have default […]

This article is sponsored by Publica. Traditional analog TV relied upon broadcast signals such as amplitude, phase and frequency to scale in the early days of television. It was this infrastructure, coupled with programming schedules, that enabled marketers to invest in TV media for the first time in 1941. Now, 80 years later, the TV […]

This article is sponsored by Tubi. Over the last few years, streaming has become a cultural force – changing the way entire segments of the population navigate and consume TV. Seventy-nine percent of people now report using streaming services to watch TV, according to a recent MRI Simmons Cord Evolution Study. Another study by eMarketer […]

This article is sponsored by Verizon Media. The future of television is here, and it’s evolving by the day. That’s the narrative you’ve likely heard if you’re following the emerging market for over-the-top video (OTT) and connected television (CTV). Both have seen meteoric growth in 2020, with CTV advertising spend in the United States up […]

This article is sponsored by Xandr. In today’s resource-constrained world, marketers and agencies are paying more attention to how far their digital investment goes. While each buy-side customer will have a slightly different mix of goals for their digital campaigns, three overarching areas of focus are emerging: Supply path advantage: First, marketers and agencies need […]

This article is sponsored by Criteo. As brands have reevaluated how they communicate in unprecedented times, agencies have spent the better part of 2020 adapting their strategies to fit into this new reality. Understanding changes in consumer behavior, improving the consumer experience and fostering industrywide collaboration have each emerged as key initiatives in service of […]

This article is sponsored by Kidoodle.TV The majority of the world’s children are still not back in classrooms. They stream videos and connect with teachers on platforms designed for adults. With kids accessing an increasing amount of content on desktop, mobile, CTV and gaming consoles, it is essential that the ad industry collaborate with regulators […]

This article is sponsored by Xandr. In about a year, more than 56 million US households will be cord cutters or cord nevers, making CTV and OTT a must-have medium for advertisers to tell their stories at scale. Coupling this with programmatic’s ease of transacting and flexibility, CTV and OTT programmatic ad spend is on […]