Apple’s expanding ad ambitions: A closer look at its journey toward a comprehensive ad tech stack Apple's limitless advertising means anxiety for ad tech vendors. Additional coverage: - What’s deceptive, fueled by profit and involved in ad arbitrage? Made-for-advertising (MFA) sites. Here’s a video explainer on what those are.
- MFA publishers are feeling the effects of the ad industry's takedown.
- A Digiday+ Research survey found that things are heating up when it comes to publishers' use of Instagram, and if things keep trending in the same direction it's possible that Instagram could even surpass its sibling social media platform.
- Ever since bid shading became prevalent in programmatic, how do agencies know its working? There are still plenty of uncertainties and complexities around the benefits and downsides.
- As top tech leaders visited Capitol Hill last week for more AI conversations — some under oath and others behind closed doors — some of the largest platforms released even more generative AI tools for marketers and creatives.
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| | | | | Apple’s limitless advertising ambitions means anxiety for ad tech vendors. | | |
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howdy! | | | | | With each passing day, MFAs grow more refined, perpetuating a lucrative grift that shows no signs of abating. | | |
| | | | | DTC became the hero of the at-home shopper in the early 2020s, but approaches to buying from digital channels continue evolving. Take this survey and tell us how your omnichannel approaches are scoring revenue and we'll send you a $5 gift card. | | |
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howdy! | | | | | MFA publishers are feeling the effects of the ad industry’s takedown. | | |
| | | | | To avoid waste, brands are leaning on addressable media — specifically addressable TV — and leveraging one-to-one household targeting and rich, first-party customer data to target shoppers with laser focus. | | |
howdy! | | | | | A Digiday+ Research survey found that things are heating up when it comes to publishers’ use of Instagram, and if things keep trending in the same direction it’s possible that Instagram could even surpass its sibling social media platform. | | |
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| | | | | As consumers increasingly demand personalized targeting, advertisers are working to identify the right steps to take with retail media campaigns to implement personalization tactics in the best way. | | |
howdy! | | | | | Ever since bid shading became prevalent in programmatic, how do agencies know it’s working? There are still plenty of uncertainties and complexities around the benefits and downsides. | | |
howdy! | | | | | As top tech leaders visited Capitol Hill last week for more AI conversations — some under oath and others behind closed doors — some of the largest platforms released even more generative AI tools for marketers and creatives. | | |
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