At its core, ad mediation seeks to optimize ad revenue. At its best, mediation finds the best result for all sides of the advertising ecosystem: the publisher, the advertiser, and the end user.
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In 2022, we covered topics ranging the spectrum of privacy regulations, retail media networks and the most efficient ways to create unique identifiers for consumers. Let’s look back on the hot topics and the most Googled terms that kept the industry buzzing this year.
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Another day, another way for the ad tech alphabet soup plot to thicken. But this time, it seems to be a step in the right direction towards unifying compliance across state privacy laws called the Multi-State Privacy Agreement (MSPA). As of late, IAB and the IAB Tech Lab is committed to encouraging…
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With the polarization of the political landscape, it seems to be a very rare occurrence that a controversial bill garners significant bipartisan support. Yet, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADDPA) was able to do just that.
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Although Google has delayed their third-party cookie cut-off, there has to be new and effective ways to aggregate consumer data in an ethical manner. One of the more widely spread solutions are Alternative IDs. This medium involves identifiers that are privacy focused and allows publishers to access first-party data that is…
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According to Sensor Tower data, over half of App Store spending in the U.S. now comes from non-game apps, and in Q2, iOS users in the U.S. spent more money in non-gaming apps than games for the first time ever.
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PPIDs are a unique identifier assigned by a publisher to a user. Publishers will share PPIDs with Google’s programmatic demand and this process will help them customize their ads and targeting. On the other hand, ESPs allow publishers to share encrypted first-party signals with buy-side platforms of their choosing. What are the…
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The ad tech industry is packed with several solutions (such as header bidding, A/B testing, etc.) to help publishers optimize their ad revenue. One such solution is ad refresh, which is considered advantageous by a lot of publishers yet there is some skepticism around using it due to its controversial…
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With the surge of online shopping and ecommerce sales, e-retail sites are becoming a more popular avenue for brand advertising. In fact, with the implementation of new privacy laws, retail media may be a necessity for publishers and advertisers. Now that third-party cookies are slowly fading away, it will be…
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Change is inevitable, especially in the ad tech space which is constantly developing new systems to improve itself. A new wave of experimental ideas is washing over the ad tech industry that many believe will ultimately have a great impact on the open web. The first era of the internet was…
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