Ad Tech
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Online Advertising
StackAdapt Secures $235 Million To Invest In Global Expansion And AI
Canada-based demand-side platform StackAdapt secures $235 million in equity funding led by Teachers’ Venture Growth, the investment arm of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.
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Marketers
Omnicom Is Getting Ready For A Post-Merger ‘Streamlining’
Why worry about AI replacing jobs when a megamerger might make them redundant?
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Marketers
The Alphabet Moneymaking Machine Grows Despite All Challenges
Alphabet is beset on all sides. Antitrust suits across the world portend potential major breakups of the business. Google is collecting nine- and 10-digit fines like they’re going out of style. Its iron grip on the global search market might be loosening at last. And Alphabet’s earnings are absolutely unaffected. The company reported Q4 revenue […]
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Online Advertising
Pain Relief Brand Panadol Taps CreativeX For Help Making Its Ads More Diverse
Haleon-owned over-the-counter pain medication Panadol is making an effort to be more inclusive in its messaging.
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Data-Driven Thinking
Goodbye, Outcomes Era: Why Quality Will Define The Industry’s Future
An industry narrative is emerging that has the potential to exacerbate the structural flaws in digital advertising rather than usher us into a new paradigm. Some of our industry’s sharpest minds are claiming that we are entering the Outcomes Era. Instead, I posit that we have been in the Outcomes Era for over a decade. […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
What Advertisers Need To Know About The FTC’s Shifting Priorities And Evolving Enforcement
Under the new leadership, the FTC is signaling a pivot away from sweeping rulemaking efforts to let Congress play that role. Instead, the agency will likely stay laser-focused on enforcement actions. Expect deceptive practices, fraud, consumer redress and select privacy concerns to take center stage. While the agency has historically looked to Congress for federal […]
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The Big Story
Ever-Elusive Transparency
CTV transparency remains a flashpoint between advertisers who want it and broadcasters who won’t provide it. Our special guest, Jounce Media’s Chris Kane, weighs in. Plus, we examine a persistent issue in ad tech: the chronic mislabeling of instream video.
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CTV Roundup
Nielsen’s Long-Awaited Measurement Offering Is Ready For The Upfronts
Nielsen told ad buyers that it plans to drop panel-only ratings later this year. The decision signals an inflection point in media measurement that publishers and buyers have both been waiting for.
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Online Advertising
CTV, Retail And Measurement Will Spur Ad Tech M&A This Year
This year, expect ad tech consolidation to center on the biggest growth opportunities in advertising: retail media, connected TV and addressing the gaps in measurement.
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Data-Driven Thinking
The Hidden Dangers Of Privacy-Preserving Attribution – And A Smarter Solution
Meta and Mozilla have proposed a new browser-based attribution system for web ads that they’re calling Privacy-Preserving Attribution. The goal is to track how advertising leads to conversion with less privacy risk to users. Unfortunately, while PPA appears to solve an interesting math problem, if applied to real-world advertising, it will increase privacy risks for […]