While brand-safety concerns on YouTube in recent weeks have given automated ad buying a black eye, MediaMath today announced a measure to make its clients feel better protected. The programmatic player is refunding brands if their ads, per a press release, "run on previously determined unsafe inventory" with a system dubbed Curated Market. "[It] provides...
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Digital & Tech Daily
April 14, 2017
Today's top news for digital marketers
MediaMath takes a stand
By Christopher Heine
While brand-safety concerns on YouTube in recent weeks have given automated ad buying a black eye, MediaMath today announced a measure to make its clients feel better protected. The programmatic player is refunding brands if their ads, per a press release, "run on previously determined unsafe inventory" with a system dubbed Curated Market. "[It] provides...
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Aims to take the format beyond Facebook and Snapchat
By Marty Swant
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It now has 200 million daily active users
By Marty Swant
Plus, research shows users are heavy shoppers
By Lauren Johnson
The event for Groups page admins will take place in Chicago
By Marty Swant
Facebook wants to help turn online "friends" into offline friends with its inaugural Communities Summit this summer. "Community" is one of those warm, fuzzy, ambitious and yet ambiguous words used by the tech world to describe online relationships. However, the event--which will be held in Chicago on June 22 and 23--marks the next tangible step...
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And how the ATL got the nickname 'Transaction Alley'
By Marty Swant
Over the past few years, Atlanta has become somewhat of a Southern powerhouse in the financial technology world, attracting companies, talent and revenue that have put the Empire City of the South at the center of the burgeoning industry known as fintech. While Atlanta might be more famous for peaches than processing payments, the city...
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Working with Moat, Integral Ad Sciences, Nielsen and comScore
By Marty Swant
Twitter is adding more companies to its roster of third-party measurement partners, which it says will help brands better verify audience segments and video ad viewability. Today, the company announced it's now partnering with Moat and Integral Ad Science and will soon expand its existing partnerships with Nielsen and comScore, potentially giving the social media...
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Its creators generate almost 7 billion video views monthly
By Sami Main
With rising advertiser concerns over messages placed on controversial YouTube videos, Studio71 will offer direct media buys through a programmatic guaranteed solution. The multichannel network is home to more than 600 creators including Lilly Singh, Rhett & Link, and Logan Paul. Thanks to its stable of creators, Studio71 aims to help advertisers sidestep issues of...
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Tells the tale of secrets, sexuality and buried treasure in Alabama
By Sami Main
A podcast nearly four years in the making, S-Town is the first project from Serial Productions, a company Sarah Koenig and Julie Snyder formed after their hit 2014 podcast, Serial, consumed the internet. Reporting for the project started in 2013, and S-Town premiered on March 28 with all seven episodes, or chapters, available for download....
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DHS had demanded the company unmask @ALT_uscis account
By Marty Swant
Twitter has voluntarily ended its legal battle with the U.S. government, potentially marking a win in the company's fight to protect free speech and user privacy. Today, the company withdrew a lawsuit it filed Thursday in federal court against the Department of Homeland Security after the agency dropped a demand that it reveal the identity...
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