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AdSecure, the innovative cybersecurity company that delivers ad security and ad quality solutions for ad platforms, publishers and app developers, today released its AdSecurity Violations Report for 2019. AdSecure’s online security solution uses a crawler built around modern browser technology, that then analyses ad creatives and landing pages to detect malicious threats, non-compliance and ad quality issues in real-time throughout the advertising flow. For this report AdSecure analysed more than 1 million ad…

Publishers generally view brand safety as a necessary means to protect their advertisers. Hard news sites and user-generated forums tend to toe the trickiest of lines when it comes to advertiser brand safety. No publisher wants to plant a sign saying "Danger: Beware of Unsafe Content" which inherently scares off a revenue source. But there may be a little bit of not seeing the forest for the trees in the sell-side’s aversion to brand safety technology integrations. I’m not the first person to suggest that publishers might…

Mary Meeker Shows the Promise of Podcasts - If Spotify Doesn’t Take Over. Publishers took the medium mainstream, and shouldn’t let a tech platform take all the profit. Mary Meeker’s recent Internet Trends report showed that 70 million Americans listened to at least one podcast per month in 2018 - more than triple the number from a decade before. That should represent a massive opportunity for publishers who produce high-quality podcasts like The Daily and Fresh Air.  Podcasts are anything but new. They’ve existed in…

Supply-side platforms (SSPs) are perhaps the most undervalued and inherently powerful links in today’s digital supply chain, and yet their current offerings do not fully reflect this strength. It’s high time that SSPs evolve their business models to become more than mere plumbing in the elaborate media-buying ecosystem. Doing so promises to deliver enhanced value not only to the SSPs themselves but also to the publishers and advertisers that they serve. We’re already starting to see some of the largest platforms in the…

Industry Think Tank Connecting Innovators Across Advertising, Marketing, and Emerging Technology Sectors The Digital Future Council, a first-of-its-kind think tank formed with the mission of bridging the gap between the creative and technology industries, has announced a distinguished selection of founding members ahead of its official launch during Cannes Lions Festival in June. Key executives on board include Kate Ward, Senior Vice President & Head of International at Refinery29; Jess Christie, Chief Brand…

Billie Vuckovich Director, Digital Marketing and Ad Operations, dexiMEDIA Ad fraud is the dirty secret of digital media that exploded with smarter advertising analytics platforms reporting them in time. With the adtech evolution, ad fraud also continues to change in form. To better understand ad fraud analytics and the other major threats to video, display, and other ad publishing companies, we spoke to Billie Vuckovich, Director, Digital Marketing and Ad Ops, dexiMEDIA.Tell us about your role at dexiMedia and the…

Rivr Is An AI-solution Purpose-built To Reduce The Complexity Of The Programmatic Ecosystem  Simplaex, announced the beta-launch of Rivr, its new AI-powered Audience Yield Manager that enables SSPs and publishers to advance to an audience-based performance model, delivering exponential value to advertisers. The announcement was made at the AdMonsters 2018 Ops Conference in New York. Today, programmatic advertising has passed the tipping point, and has become a highly complex and non-transparent landscape. The…

Header Bidding: Digital media's favorite phrase over the past few years. While header bidding technology has proliferated primarily around desktop and mobile web, in recent months mobile in-app header bidding, and the unified auction, have been hot topics of industry discussion - and not without reason! The publishing industry and enterprise publishers are gravitating towards a mobile-first outlook to their businesses as user consumption habits move further away from traditional media sources, and towards mobile in-app…

Outbrain and IAS Form Strategic Partnership to Deliver Brand Safety Solutions to Marketers Outbrain, the world’s leading content discovery platform, and Integral Ad Science (IAS), the measurement and analytics company that empowers the advertising industry, today announced they have formed a partnership to bring IAS’ brand safety solutions to Outbrain’s brand marketers. The partnership represents a significant addition for marketers working with Outbrain, the most trusted and largest content recommendation company…

EMX Will Form More Powerful Media Solutions And Produce An Overall Lift In ROI bRealTime and Clearstream have merged to form EMX, a new programmatic marketplace. EMX will offer media solutions across supply, demand and data to publishers, tech providers and agencies. It will also include increased efficiencies, enhanced transparency and a universal lift in ROI. How does EMX work? EMX works on the principle of combining services of bRealTime and Clearstream,  to be an integrated business platform. bRealTime is an…

Today’s digital advertising industry faces many challenges, ranging from fraud and lack of transparency to antiquated payment models. Such challenges aren’t unique to the marketing industry. In fact, many industries, including financial services, are struggling to address these very same challenges. That’s one reason that headlines around blockchain technology are so prevalent these days. Indeed, blockchain technology could revolutionize a number of industries. Nowhere is the promise quite as strong as in programmatic…

An enormous gap divides our industry. On one side are the likes of Google and Facebook, the so-called walled gardens. On the other side is everyone else. For publishers, Facebook Instant Articles is a poisoned chalice. It forces them to surrender their audience data and compete with Facebook for traffic. Meanwhile, Instant Articles lines the pockets of the social media giant and helps it develop even greater targeting abilities. The walled gardens derive their power from their goldmines of data. They use the data as they…

Tom Kershaw Chief Technology Officer, Rubicon Project Last month, Rubicon Project announced that it has opened up its exchange to DSPs for programmatic buying in guaranteed private marketplaces. Rubicon Project is currently in the process of signing up other major DSPs for guaranteed private marketplace integrations in the near future. To better understand what Rubicon Project's Programmatic Guaranteed Buying Marketplace offers and how advertisers could benefit from such an arrangement, we spoke to their CTO, Tom…

HIRO Media's Event to Explore Issues, Trends, and Opportunities That Are Top of Mind for Brands, Agencies, and Publishers HIRO Media, the world's first safe SSP, is proud to bring together thought leaders and influencers from all sides of the digital advertising industry - Brands, Publishers, Agencies and Advertising Technology - for an exclusive Advertising Week Europe event in London. Also Read:  GDPR Will Drive A Coach And Horses Through The Online Advertising Ecosystem The Programmatic & Media industries are…

5G has undergone its first public trial during the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. With Mobile World Congress (MWC) taking place in Barcelona between 26th February and 1st March 2018, expect to hear a lot more about 5G in the coming weeks. But why does the world need 5G and how will it impact the symbiotic worlds of Advertising and Publishing? This is an overview of the business and commercial rationale behind 5G for MNOs and summarises the impact for AdTech and Publishers whilst providing practical guidance…