GroupM and TAG Join Forces to Tackle Brand Safety
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GroupM and TAG Join Forces to Tackle Brand Safety

9y Yuyu Chen

GroupM and TAG Join Forces to Tackle Brand Safety

GroupM and Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) stamp down on online piracy by ensuring all media partners receive validation as Digital Advertising...

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Is Kim Kardashian’s #CorrectiveAd Aligned with MRC’s New Social Media Guidelines?
Social

Is Kim Kardashian’s #CorrectiveAd Aligned with MRC’s New Social Media Guid...

9y Yuyu Chen

Is Kim Kardashian’s #CorrectiveAd Aligned with MR...

The Media Rating Council’s newly-released guidelines require that sponsored user-generated content (UGC) appearing on a social media platform should b...

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3 Ways to Achieve Sustainable Revenue: Why Gigaom and Re/Code Are the Tip of the Iceberg
Media

3 Ways to Achieve Sustainable Revenue: Why Gigaom and Re/Code Are the Tip o...

9y Eric Wheeler

3 Ways to Achieve Sustainable Revenue: Why Gigaom ...

The revolving door of media publishers incites questions about the sustainability of the current publisher business model. Here are three suggestions ...

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Mobile Advertising and Its Original Medium
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Mobile Advertising and Its Original Medium

9y Anna Bager

Mobile Advertising and Its Original Medium

The evolution of audio as a portable medium justifies the progressive rationale behind leveraging digital audio resources to support mobile advertisin...

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IAB UK Provides Solutions to Five Major Industry Challenges
Marketing

IAB UK Provides Solutions to Five Major Industry Challenges

9y Yuyu Chen

IAB UK Provides Solutions to Five Major Industry C...

The IAB UK is committed to tackling five major industry issues: brand safety, ad viewability, ad fraud, ad blocking and user privacy. Read More...

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Amazon to Abandon Adobe Flash Next Month
Marketing

Amazon to Abandon Adobe Flash Next Month

9y Yuyu Chen

Amazon to Abandon Adobe Flash Next Month

Amazon is going to ditch Adobe Flash, a move driven by recent browser-setting updates from Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari. Read More...

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IAB: HTML5 to Be New Industry Standard
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IAB: HTML5 to Be New Industry Standard

9y Yuyu Chen

IAB: HTML5 to Be New Industry Standard

Advertisers have long used Flash to make interactive ads online, but the IAB is going to ditch Flash for HTML5 as the new industry standard. Read More...

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Rise Of the Authenticators
Marketing

Rise Of the Authenticators

9y Kevin Lee

Rise Of the Authenticators

What can digital marketers do to guarantee their ads reach humans, as opposed to fraudulent bots hijacking human identities and consequently profiting...

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KIND Uses Stop Motion Video to Make Instagram Magic for Millennial Moms
Social

KIND Uses Stop Motion Video to Make Instagram Magic for Millennial Moms

9y Emily Alford

KIND Uses Stop Motion Video to Make Instagram Magi...

Snack bar brand KIND has tapped Instagram star and artist Rachel Ryle to encourage moms to share their best summer photos for a chance to win a custom...

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Our Smartphones, Ourselves
Media

Our Smartphones, Ourselves

9y Joe Laszlo

Our Smartphones, Ourselves

Our smartphones have so much data on everything about us, from our sleeping patterns to our shopping habits, they've become extensions of ourselves. J...

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Eyes Wide Open on Viewability
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Eyes Wide Open on Viewability

9y Jonathan Mackenzie

Eyes Wide Open on Viewability

Viewability still poses its challenges for advertisers but the more viewability is introduced as a standard on campaigns, the quicker the quality will...

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Mobile Factors Into 54 Percent of Campaigns with Viewability Discrepancies
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Mobile Factors Into 54 Percent of Campaigns with Viewability Discrepancies

9y Mike O'Brien

Mobile Factors Into 54 Percent of Campaigns with V...

In its most recent testing phase, the Media Rating Council found that while 63 percent of campaigns had consistent viewability, mobile was a big facto...

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A Portrait of American Mobile Video Viewing
Media

A Portrait of American Mobile Video Viewing

9y Joe Laszlo

A Portrait of American Mobile Video Viewing

IAB recently released a study that looked at smartphone data from video viewers all over the world. Findings suggest that viewers want short videos th...

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Marketers Who Ignore Connected TV May Be Left in the Dust
Data insights

Marketers Who Ignore Connected TV May Be Left in the Dust

9y Emily Alford

Marketers Who Ignore Connected TV May Be Left in t...

Right now, connected TVs don't offer much user data, but as more and more Americans adopt them, vendors will rise to meet the challenges of provided h...

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Win Over the Consumer With Data Transparency
Data insights

Win Over the Consumer With Data Transparency

9y Yuyu Chen

Win Over the Consumer With Data Transparency

Companies that are honest about their data practices are more likely to build trust with consumers. Read More...

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Threat or Opportunity? 4 Topics for Publisher Dialogue in 2015
Media

Threat or Opportunity? 4 Topics for Publisher Dialogue in 2015

9y Chris Crawfurd

Threat or Opportunity? 4 Topics for Publisher Dial...

Events geared toward small publishers give them the rare opportunity to have a say in issues such as walled gardens, copyright infringement, ad qualit...

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FTC Urges Publishers to Clearly Label Native Ads
Marketing

FTC Urges Publishers to Clearly Label Native Ads

9y Yuyu Chen

FTC Urges Publishers to Clearly Label Native Ads

If publishers serve misleading native ads, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) could soon begin to hold them responsible. Read More...

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Beyond YouTube: Alternate Video Venues
Media

Beyond YouTube: Alternate Video Venues

9y Kevin Lee

Beyond YouTube: Alternate Video Venues

While YouTube is the dominant platform when it comes to video SEO, the video offerings on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Snapchat ...

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Yahoo Allows Advertisers to Independently Validate Viewability and Fraud
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Yahoo Allows Advertisers to Independently Validate Viewability and Fraud

9y Yuyu Chen

Yahoo Allows Advertisers to Independently Validate...

Yahoo is the first major digital publisher that lets brands fact-check viewability and ad fraud by themselves. Read More...

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Remembering Mobile Dads - and Not Just on Father’s Day
Media

Remembering Mobile Dads - and Not Just on Father’s Day

9y Joe Laszlo

Remembering Mobile Dads - and Not Just on Father’s...

Marketing messages for moms should target both parents, as today's dads, who make up 22 percent of the U.S. mobile audience, are more hands-on than th...

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Brands Fight Ad Blindness With Interactive Experiences
Media

Brands Fight Ad Blindness With Interactive Experiences

9y Mike O'Brien

Brands Fight Ad Blindness With Interactive Experie...

Brands like Target, Shazam, and The Home Depot are increasingly making interactive mobile ads, while also taking decreasing user attention spans into ...

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Signs Point to a New 'New Normal' for TV Viewing
Media

Signs Point to a New 'New Normal' for TV Viewing

9y Anna Bager

Signs Point to a New 'New Normal' for TV Viewing

With so many choices available, consumers are now able to chose when and where they watch their video programming. How can marketers react to this? Re...

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Brands to Spend More on Original Digital Video But Worry About Its ROI
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Brands to Spend More on Original Digital Video But Worry About Its ROI

9y Yuyu Chen

Brands to Spend More on Original Digital Video But...

A joint study from DigitasLBi and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) shows that brand marketers will invest more in original digital video conte...

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YouTube Unveils New Research and Insights Before NewFronts 2015
Media

YouTube Unveils New Research and Insights Before NewFronts 2015

9y Greg Jarboe

YouTube Unveils New Research and Insights Before N...

Ahead of next week's Digital Content NewFronts, YouTube is sharing some key research about Google Preferred users and mobile video viewers. Read More...

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IAB: Mobile Ad Revenues Soared 76% in 2014
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IAB: Mobile Ad Revenues Soared 76% in 2014

9y Melanie White

IAB: Mobile Ad Revenues Soared 76% in 2014

The digital advertising space grew 16 percent last year to a total of $49.5 billion in sales, driven by a surge in mobile ad revenues. Read More...

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When Margins Attack: The Impacts of Video Supply Deficit
Media

When Margins Attack: The Impacts of Video Supply Deficit

9y Chris Crawfurd

When Margins Attack: The Impacts of Video Supply D...

Limited video inventory is creating some unexpected problems in the digital publishing industry. How are you dealing with them? Read More...

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Is Mobile Redundant?: What We Learned at IAB’s Mobile Marketplace
Media

Is Mobile Redundant?: What We Learned at IAB’s Mobile Marketplace

9y Joe Laszlo

Is Mobile Redundant?: What We Learned at IAB’s Mob...

As mobile is everywhere now, does that mean it's becoming meaningless? Does it even require a conversation anymore? Read More...

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