Dailymotion, a Vivendi-owned global video platform, combining premium content and quality advertising solutions in a trustworthy environment, has joined Prebid.org, an independent organization designed to ensure and promote fair, transparent, and efficient header bidding across programmatic advertising as a Community member. Marketing Technology News: DisruptOps Raises $9 Million Series A to Scale Cloud Security Operations With members spanning from publishers to ad tech companies, the organization manages open source…

In partnership with SQAD, Canadian Advertisers become world leaders for transparent cost benchmarking and negotiation equity A first-of-its-kind Canadian ad cost data platform was announced today by SQAD, LLC – the leading provider of advanced media planning software and transaction-based ad cost data. The platform, MediaCosts: Canada, aggregates negotiated market ad cost values for conventional National TV, Selective and Specialty TV, as well as Radio advertising, exclusively for data-contributing advertising agencies,…

Company Makes Handset Rate Structure, Portfolio Data, Licensing Principles Readily Accessible InterDigital, Inc., a mobile and video technology research and development company, launched a transparency initiative that makes more readily accessible expanded information about the company’s standards essential patent (SEP) licensing rate program, including information regarding its rate structure, licensing and arbitration principles as well as important data about its large SEP portfolio. “We firmly believe that we have one…

World's Largest Decentralized Crypto Exchange Leverages Blox Technology To Provide Smart Asset Management Tools For Millions Of Users Blox.io, an industry-leading platform for crypto asset management, accounting and cost basis, has partnered in a technical collaboration with IDEX to introduce the company and its users to Blox's advanced crypto asset management platform and smart data technology. The rapidly expanding volume, quality, and speed of data is creating new challenges for crypto companies as they focus on…

Helps create new audit standards in partnership with Point of Care Communication Council; signs multiyear agreement with measurement leader IQVIA CheckedUp – the only physician-founded technology platform designed for specialty point of care actively engaging patients, caregivers, and physicians in the waiting room and exam room – announced multiple developments highlighting its commitment to implementing best-in-class media measurement practices and fostering transparency in its measurement and reporting processes. As…

2019 delivered a great deal of progress in the way of industry standardization, measurement, and transparency for digital OOH. It started with wide-scale industry collaboration and the production of the digital OOH Primer. It is a comprehensive set of best practices published by five leading industry trade groups. The digital OOH Primer provided a framework for consistent proof of play standards. This can be used globally to support all the stakeholders involved in the digital OOH marketplace. For digital OOH to continue…

For digital advertisers, transparency is critical. Marketers are increasingly seeking greater confidence and clarity across a convoluted media supply chain. We’ve seen some of the world’s biggest brands, like P&G and Unilever, lead the charge here. Furthermore, as the ecosystem becomes more focused on transparency, the shift is having a profound impact on the programmatic marketplace. According to eMarketer, US advertisers will spend almost $60 billion on programmatic advertising in 2019. That’s nearly 90% of the…

SAP SE announced the launch of the SAP for Me Web site, an online portal providing SAP customers personalized access and a transparent view of their entire product portfolio. "SAP for Me" encompasses all lines of SAP products and services, including on-premise and cloud products, and is available free of charge as an open beta version for all customers with a valid contract. SAP for Me enables customers to log in with their existing S-user. They can also use the new universal ID feature, which eases use for customers with…

A new global study from ESOMAR and HERE Technologies, along with research partners BuzzBack Research, and Cint, shows that transparency around consumer data collection brands can potentially have a significant impact on both consumer trust and sales. The study, which surveyed over 10,000 consumers in 10 markets, found that 38% of consumers in the US would be far more likely to trust companies they know handle their personal data as they should. While 41% stated they would be more likely to buy products or services, or use…

Socialbakers’ Paid Analytics helps brands gain complete control of their ads budget through accurate analysis, stronger data security and transparent collaboration with agency teams  Socialbakers, the unified marketing platform for enterprise brands, announced it is enhancing its marketing solutions to include paid social media oversight and control across multiple ad accounts with the introduction of Socialbakers Paid Analytics. As brands are shifting more budget to social media advertising, it becomes paramount that…

MGID becomes one of the first platforms to adopt the new IAB Tech Lab solutions to provide greater confidence in its offering MGID, the global pioneer in native advertising, has announced it is starting work to become one of the first ad tech companies to start posting the sellers.json file on its supply platform domains, and will support the OpenRTB SupplyChain object, to give buyers a better understanding of the inventory they are bidding on. Released by the IAB Tech Lab in April 2019 for public comment, sellers.json…

By blocking sophisticated invalid traffic and fraudulent impressions before purchase, publishers and advertisers can focus on the consumer experience MediaMath, acclaimed independent programmatic company for marketers, and White Ops, the global leader in bot fraud protection, announced a new partnership that will protect some of the world's largest advertisers, agencies and publishers from sophisticated invalid traffic (SIVT) before it can be purchased. Partnering identity and detection solutions from both companies,…

AI technology and suite of resources empowers small and independent businesses, makes password-free, online checkouts more secure for cardholders Mastercard launched the Mastercard Digital Wellness program, a host of technologies and resources that enable all businesses, especially small and independent merchants, to better serve today’s digital-first consumer. As part of this program, Mastercard will deploy EMVCo’s specification for fast, click-to-pay check-out for digital commerce. The specification replaces…

Guidelines Take Effect November 1st; Enforcement Starts January 1, 2020 by Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB) and Association of National Advertisers (ANA) The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) announced the timeline for enforcement of its new transparency guidelines for political advertisers, including use of the "Political Ad" icon. The new guidelines will become effective on November 1, 2019, and enforcement of compliance will begin on January 1, 2020. The independent enforcement program will be run by the…

Blockchain-Based Social Media Platform Will Reward and Return Control to Social Media Users Social media is fundamentally broken and is in need of a complete overhaul. Block.one announced Voice, a blockchain-based social media application designed with users of the platform in mind. Voice is a more transparent social media platform for the world, where the value of good content gets circulated right back into sustaining the community, not corporate bottom lines. "The truth is, current social media platforms are…

 “Having Someone Else Grade Your Homework” Ensures Brands Get What They Pay For Media.net, a contextual advertising and publisher solutions company, emerging as a leader in programmatic, and Amino Payments, the premiere transparency and supply path optimization company for digital advertisers, announced a partnership to provide detailed visibility into how much of a buyer’s budget results in true working media through the Media.net Marketplace.  This marks one of the first and largest adoptions of third party audit—on…

New Proprietary Technology Addresses Industry Need for True Attribution Pernix, a digital marketing attribution application solution that guarantees advertisers complete control over performance marketing attribution logic, launched. Built to put customers at the heart of a revitalized partnership marketing approach, Pernix fuses attribution and analytical data with program tracking to make authentic, trackable program performance a reality. Pernix disrupts misaligned attribution models and tracking to enable a more…

Builds on Platform-Wide Audit and Reinforces Commitment to Accountability and Trust in the Advertising Technology Industry Telaria, the complete software platform to manage video advertising for premium publishers, announced two major initiatives that will increase transparency for brand advertisers on its Video Management Platform (VMP): “Advertisers are increasingly demanding greater transparency to ensure every dollar they spend is going towards impactful media that moves their businesses forward. We believe greater…

More Than 10,000 Smartlabel Pages Launched to Date; Next Phase Focused on Custom Attribute Data Grocers Can Use for E-Commerce, Mobile and In-Store Initiatives Label Insight, the market leader for product transparency, announced that it has signed an expanded deal with Topco Associates LLC to provide their 49 member-owners with customized attributes they can use to power e-commerce, improved searches and in-store initiatives. Thirty Topco member-owners have joined Topco's Product Transparency Initiative in the first year…

New Technical Specifications from IAB Tech Lab Released Alongside New Policies IAB Europe, the leading European-level industry association for the digital advertising ecosystem, in partnership with IAB Tech Lab, announced it is making the Policies and Technical Specifications for v2.0 of the Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF v2.0) available for public comment.  The public comment period will last 30 days, until 25th May 2019. The first iteration of the TCF was launched exactly one year ago, on 25th April 2018,…