It’s August, which means that the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is officially in effect and enforceable. However, there are still more questions than answers, and the chaos will likely continue for the next year or two. Jessica B. Lee, Partner, Co-Chair, Privacy, Security & Data Innovations at Loeb &…
Read MoreAdMonsters July 30, 2020 Dear Publisher, Your Site Needs A Health Check With Google’s end-of-May announcement that they will be using Google Pagespeed Insights metrics as a major part of search engine rankings a few months from now, publishers are suddenly scrutinizing page performance—and worried about how ads affect…
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With Google’s end-of-May announcement that they will be using Google Pagespeed Insights metrics as a major part of search engine rankings a few months from now, publishers are suddenly scrutinizing page performance—and worried about how ads affect their metrics. Playwire's Nick Branstator explains how to get your ad tech healthy…
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For the last couple of years, the financial services category has lead in digital ad spend and during the pandemic, even when loads of people are out of work, it seems to be no different. Senior Editor Lynne d Johnson spoke with Rachel Tuffney, EVP, Dianomi, an advertising platform for…
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Powered by: July 21, 2020 Amazon Drops Fees When Going Through Its DSP AVOD Opportunities Aplenty IAB TCF 2.0: Considerations CCPA 2.0 Is Gunning For Ad Tech Advertisers Fly Non-Stop Programmatic and Save The now-infamous ISBA study has many marketers wondering where that mysterious and unaccounted-for 15% of their…
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We heard about a letter sent to the W3C Advisory Board, signed by 19 W3C members asking for an intervention because they felt that the voices of members from smaller organizations were not being recognized or taken seriously. The top name on this letter was James Rosewell, CEO and Co-Founder…
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Current conditions are presenting publishers with a unique conundrum. There are huge traffic spikes offering an opportunity to super-size digital media monetization. But to harness it, they must first tackle the COVID-19 disruption to advertising budgets and their internal resources. We spoke with Ivan Ivanov, COO, PubGalaxy, about what publishers…
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July 14, 2020 It's Not a Recovery—But It's Something SMBs Can't Leave Facebook Alone CCPA's Facebook Challenges Peacock Walled Garden Plans Get Blocked Don’t Call It a Comeback—Yet Ad spend may have begun slowly trickling through the programmatic pipes starting in May, but beleaguered advertisers aren’t at all hopeful that…
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In the wake of the ISBA Programmatic Supply Chain Transparency Study, there was immediate focus on who was most adversely affected, as well as the mysterious unknown delta. While these are interesting data points, MightyHive's Head of Media Activation, Rachel Adams, was taken aback by another issue—how difficult it was…
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What an interesting time for fast-rising TikTok to introduce a self-serve advertising platform aimed at meeting the demands of SMBs. In addition to the platform's now-famous creative capabilities, SMBs will get advanced targeting and flexible budgeting allowing for campaign pausing. Editorial Director Gavin Dunaway caught up with the TikTok collective…
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