1+ week, 6+ day ago   (901+ words) By Toni Poulain, Goodway Group The industry’s first reaction was to debate whether this is a cash grab. The more consequential question is why the buy side remains so smitten with the idea of handing maximum control to autonomous buying…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (785+ words) By Charlie Castell, PubRev+ When news broke that ICE had issued a request for information asking how ad tech providers could support its investigations, the industry reacted with alarm. Executives like Brian O’Kelley of Scope3 warned publicly about what it could…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (776+ words) Matt Prohaska has spent more than a decade helping publishers, brands and their ad tech partners clean up their data strategies. Now, he’s turning that playbook over to nonprofits. For example, DetecTogether – which helps firefighters detect cancer earlier – lacked the…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (539+ words) The instinct is to say social is outperforming every other channel. But I don’t think that’s the full story. What we might be seeing is degrees of measurement confidence, and it’s leaving opportunity on the table. Meta’s attribution infrastructure is…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (797+ words) One surprise beneficiary of the Spirit Airlines bankruptcy debacle: Google. Google spent $10 million to acquire “a trove of deidentified business data, software code and operations records” from the now-defunct airline, Bloomberg Law reports. The data stockpile Google bought for a…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (884+ words) The accepted narrative says linear TV can no longer provide what modern advertisers want. The real story is more complicated. Fragmented linear audiences are harder to reach, but they’re not gone. Sophisticated targeting, measurement and optimization are harder to execute…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (885+ words) The most lucrative advertising strategy doesn’t have to be particularly expensive or high tech. Rather, having a product that’s so good people can’t stop talking about it is the preferred approach for some brands. Of course, relying on word of…...

4+ week, 2+ hour ago   (951+ words) Marketers are waking up to how useful Reddit can be for influencing consumer preferences. Now, they’re taking a more active role in guiding community conversations around their brands. The strategy is becoming prevalent as Reddit’s licensing deals with Google and…...