Just when you thought you couldn't deal with one more standard... The MRC has built on the viewability standards to bring bold cross-media measurement guidelines to the industry. Yup, this new standard is complicated, writes Turnstil's John Osborn, but it may be the grease that slides linear-digital convergence into place.
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We know not what the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will finally look like when it goes into effect January 1, 2020, but we do know that Silicon Valley heavyweights applied great pressure to revise it, there’s an industry solution for do-not-sell requests, and unfortunately, most US businesses are overwhelmingly…
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1 pm EDT The role of data in advertising has changed... has your data management platform kept up? In 2016, Scott Messer (Senior Vice President, Media at Leaf Group) wrote an article about how tricky it was to switch Data Management Platforms. Stating that, “migrations can be painful, debilitating and…
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1 pm EDT Automation can be as easy as 1, 2, 3... Whether they involve campaign setup, creative management, or reporting and reconciliation, manual and mundane tasks siphon away enthusiasm from your ad operations team. Worse, they distract your best producers from initiatives like customer success that truly move the…
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If blockchain is the infrastructure that underpins Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, cryptography is the infrastructure that underpins blockchain. When you boil it down, the core problems cryptography solves are identity validation and data verification. Blockchain’s big value prop is the ability to facilitate transactions without a middle man. But, both…
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Limiting the number of monetization SDKs integrated has been a common practice; many in-app demand sources have also built simpler APIs that can handle the job. Especially with monetization technology, a single SSP or exchange can open up to a wide realm of demand sources, precluding the need for numerous…
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Digital advertisers may be thinking that the best thing to do is to avoid the terms “Trump” and "Brexit" at all costs, but doing so could mean your ads miss out on an awful lot of potentially lucrative revenue. So how do you avoid anything to do with Trump when…
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In his first 90 days, Derek Gatts, CNN's new Advertising Product, Innovation, Technology & Operations Leader has already embraced some of the key differences in his new organization. “A lot of the change was the transition from overseeing several different functions that could all work together under one mandate to…
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