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Better Attribution Makes Live Sports A Performance Play

To squeeze the most juice out of their live sports campaigns, many marketers are adopting programmatic buying and marketing mix modeling, both of which are also drawing more advertisers to the digital live sports cornucopia.

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Data-Driven Thinking

The W3C Is Making A Critical Mistake About Measuring Advertising Effectiveness

The W3C’s proposed “Attribution Level 1” browser standard deserves far more scrutiny from the advertising and measurement community than it has so far received. The public comment period remains open through June 10. At a moment when advertisers face enormous pressure to justify spending and many publishers outside the largest platforms are struggling economically, industry […]

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Outgoing Prebid President Mike Racic On His Departure And The Org’s Next Act

Prebid is turning the page on what might be called its second chapter, as the organization navigates some major changes in the digital advertising landscape and within its own ranks. Over the course of just a few days last week, news emerged that Prebid President Mike Racic and Christian Janelli, Prebid’s director of product management, […]

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AdExchanger Talks

Don’t Take Customers At Face Value

Verizon Value President David “DK” Kim digs into the lingering stigma around prepaid wireless – and how reframing customers as “prepaid by need” versus “prepaid by choice” changes the way Verizon markets and measures its eight-brand portfolio of prepaid plans.

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How American Home Shield Revamped Its Targeting Strategy Amid Data Fragmentation

Media fragmentation is the ultimate paradox. There are more places than ever to reach an audience, but it has become increasingly difficult to grab their attention. And when attention is so divided, it’s hard to “feel confident that you’re reaching the right customer at the right time,” said Andrea Steele, director of media and marketing […]

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Data-Driven Thinking

Digital Advertising Needs Guardrails For AI

The biggest AI risk in digital advertising is probably not the one most people are talking about. It’s not creative generation. It’s not job replacement. It’s not whether AI can optimize campaigns faster than humans. The real risk is what happens when autonomous systems begin making commercial decisions without clear ownership, governance or accountability. That […]

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From Open Internet To Open Agent: The Architecture Buyers Were Promised Is Finally Here

You know the call. It happens every month, sometimes every week: The DSP number doesn’t match the SSP number. Nobody is sure whose pixel fired twice. The deal you activated three weeks ago is still not delivering. The brand safety report came back clean, but the placement was anything but. A meaningful percentage of your […]

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CTV Roundup

FAST Content Isn’t Always ‘Premium,’ But That’s Where TV Ad Innovation Is Happening

The FAST channel ecosystem is providing advertisers with a sandbox (no, not that sandbox) to test new CTV formats, targeting tools and programmatic buying methods.

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The Big Story

The End Of The Programmatic Pageview

TV piracy of sports streams is siphoning away millions of viewers. Then: Vox Media and BuzzFeed found new owners this spring, punctuating the end of the pageview era.

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