By: Inder Singh, SVP Commerce, InMobi Jimit Doshi, Vice President, Head of Revenue and Operations, InMobi Commerce Retail media has taken the marketing and advertising world by storm. And we have reasons – actually, 30 billion reasons – why we believe its ascent is only beginning. According to eMarketer’s latest forecast, advertising spend could exceed $30 billion […]
This article is sponsored by Commerce Signals, a Verisk Financial business. By Nick Mangiapane, Chief Marketing Officer Get closer to customers – even as they pay somebody else for products and services. Direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales have skyrocketed. DTC brands across nearly every consumer category – from bustling bug-spray manufacturers to cook-from-home meal-kit providers to sustainable shoe […]
By Eran Udassin, VP of product and operations at Rivr This article is sponsored by Rivr. Programmatic bidding should be efficient and effective – especially RTB. But over time, the tools we use to execute and measure programmatic have become fragmented, and inefficiencies and waste seeped between the cracks. This has led to many issues, […]
By Oz Etzioni, CEO of Clinch This article is sponsored by Clinch. What has the advertising industry been doing for the last 25 years if not constantly changing? And with every great evolution, there’s always more change ahead. Ever since ad tech became a driving force in the industry, almost all players have touted their […]
By Kunal Nagpal, SVP and GM, Publisher Platform and Exchange, InMobi We’re at the end of the beginning of online privacy reformation. Safari and Firefox browsers removed third-party cookies a while ago, then Apple made iOS opt-in while Google will move next year to make GAID opt-out, to begin with. Meanwhile, regulators globally have been […]
By Mathieu Roche, co-founder and CEO of ID5 This article is sponsored by ID5. Identity is making lots of headlines. What used to be a niche topic is getting a lot of attention now that the means to it are at risk. The good news is that, as the cookie panic subsides, it’s giving way […]
By Lyndon Campbell, corporate SVP of sports and brands at MarketCast This article is sponsored by MarketCast. This year, sponsors will spend more than $20 billion with sports leagues in North America and more than $60 billion globally. The appeal for brands sponsoring live sports is simple: It remains one of the few categories in […]
By Will Kunkel, VP of Marketing at Stirista This article is sponsored by Stirista. There’s really no excuse for ineffective campaigns anymore. These are big words – but they reflect the significant momentum toward confidence in data as both sides of the ad spectrum look for solid footing in the wake of rapid changes. The […]
Alex Chatfield, VP, Marketplace Development, Xandr Once upon a time, desktop display advertising was the central way for brands to reach digital audiences. It was a simple process: “I want to appear in The New York Times. I will target nytimes.com. My ad is live on nytimes.com.” While desktop display still plays a prominent role in digital campaigns […]
By Rob Armstrong, SVP of Product at Eyeota If you’re a publisher operating in today’s digital ecosystem, you’re probably pretty sick of hearing that you need to get better at capturing permission-based audience data. The future, everyone tells you, belongs to the publishers with the strongest first-party data strategies. While that’s true, it’s not helpful […]
This article is sponsored by Oracle Advertising. CTV is undoubtedly becoming a critical slice of the advertising pie. After months at home in lockdown, without restaurants, movie theaters or live events to attend, television – more specifically, CTV – was the real winner. Between Q3 2019 and Q3 2020, streaming adoption increased 11% among viewers […]
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 […]
