In her keynote address at Publisher Forum Boston, Claire Atkin, Co-founder and CEO of Check My Ads, called for increased transparency in digital advertising to prevent disinformation, support quality journalism, and help bolster publisher revenue.
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The proliferation of low-quality, Made For Advertising (MFA) sites threatens digital advertising’s integrity. To combat this, the industry must adhere to standards set by the Media Rating Council (MRC) and the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG). These certifications ensure transparency and trust, paving the way for a more reliable and sustainable…
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Publishers, SSPs, and DSPs need to work together to ensure all parties get what they need from one another. However, publishers often lament the lack of transparency and the slow evolution of SSPs. At Publisher Forum New Orleans, a DSP, an SSP, and a publisher all came together on one stage…
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CTV consumption skyrocketed in 2020, and the growth is not slowing anytime soon. CTV publishers and advertisers have mined these growing audiences like a gold mine with much success. Although not all that glitters is gold, the CTV mine stores a few pieces of fool's gold.
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The bill includes regulations that will continue to trigger an already erupting volcano. The lava represents all the publishers and advertisers who constantly scramble to keep up with these rules and regulations.
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How can publishers future proof their businesses by turning requests coming in from advertisers into privacy-first, first-party data strategies, especially as the third-party cookie goes away? That's exactly what attendees learned at our recent webinar — No Third-party Cookies, No Problem: Ranker on First-party Data in a Privacy-safe World —…
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While there are multiple reasons for the growing inefficiencies in the ad buying process, one of the fundamental reasons can be traced to the widespread adoption of header bidding. When publishers first began using header bidding strategies in the mid-2010s, it immediately led to rapid growth in the number and…
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As we move closer to the end of Q4, pubs are experiencing a rebound of sorts but it hasn't halted their concerns about payments. Pubs are looking for assurances (and insurance) from their SSP partners that they won’t be left holding the bag when a default happens along the chain…
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Transparency concerns have long plagued open advertising markets, scaring away participants on the buy and sell-side of open real-time bidding advertising transactions. The buy-side has ads.txt and sellers.json. Unfortunately, sell-side participants—publishers—often have difficulty obtaining basic levels of transparency in reverse when using header bidding tools to extend demand.
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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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