April 22, 2021 Core Web Vitals Rankings Get Pushed Back a Bit Hey FLoC, Get Off My Block Around the Water Cooler Core Web Vitals Gets Pushed Back (and Most Sites Don’t Rank Well Yet Anyway) If Google’s new Core Web Vitals benchmarks for the “page experience” became the standard…
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April 06, 2021 Should Pubs Even Care About NFTs? Will ClubHouse's Direct Payments Shake Up the Digital Media Ecosystem? Around the Water Cooler...Everything Else We're Reading Could NFTs Be a Boon for Publishers? Image sourced from FutureStreamTV We’ve been sitting on the sidelines watching all of this NFTs (nonfungible tokens)…
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Powered by: March 30, 2021 The Next CTV Land Grab: A Peloton Screen? The Future of CMS Could User Panels Be a Panacea for Digital Identity? Around the Water Cooler The Next CTV Land Grab: A Peloton Screen? Image sourced from Peloton The virus that shall not be named…
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Powered by: March 23, 2021 Google Blocked 3.1 Billion Ads in 2020 Time For Pubs to Find New Normal Around the Water Cooler Google Goes Blocka, Blocka, Blocka on 3.1 Billion Ads The year 2020 really brought malvertisers out of the woodwork. From pandemic-related scams, to #BLM-related scams, to…
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Powered by: March 16, 2021 Are We Really Ready For the Cookiepocalypse? Is Your CMS Killing Your ROI? Around the Water Cooler Are We Really Ready For the Cookiepocalypse? Ad tech is getting confusing AF. Immediately following the brouhaha over Google’s announcement to not support identifiers tracking users across…
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Powered by: March 09, 2021 An Ecosystem Divided Brands Are Hungry For New Digital Ad Options Around the Water Cooler An Ecosystem Divided Photo by Luca Bravo on Unsplash "Are we creating two different ecosystems?" Shenan Reed, SVP, Head of Media, L'Oréal asked Jerry Dischler, Vice President / General…
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2021 is already shaping up to be an improvement over last year, crippling snowstorms and vaccine shortage be damned. For pubs, the year also presents something of a fresh start. They are genuinely taking a ‘nowhere to go but up’ mentality this year, making most of the dregs befalling ad tech…
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February 16, 2021 Google's Privacy Engineer Defends Sandbox Ads for Weapons Spike Around the Capitol Riots Big Tech Finally Paying Pubs For Content? Clubhouse Craze Google Engineer Defends Privacy Sandbox Plans While the imminent death of third-party cookies has not been exaggerated, Google’s proposed suite of privacy-minded tools for advertisers,…
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February 10, 2021 Google Ad Revenue Up, Despite Pandemic NY Times Unlocks First-party Data Revenue Ad Tech Consolidation Nation Around the Water Cooler Google Ad Revenue Up, Despite Pandemic Image sourced from While global ad spending no doubt took a substantial hit in 2020, Google’s parent company Alphabet posted record…
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On January 22, 2021, Google announced plans for its “First Locally Executed Decision over Groups Experiment” or FLEDGE for short. The announcement on Github describes how they will operationalize TURTLEDOVE for a first test.
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