Overzealous brand-safety strategies are costing both publishers and advertisers millions in terms of wasted impressions. To solve the issue, both groups are using more nuanced, contextual ad-targeting strategies to discern whether the content on a page is suitable for ads.
January 24, 2020

Engagement fraud among Instagram influencers continues to be a problem for marketers. To combat that, marketers are looking to other metrics and re-evaluating what they use influencers for. Read more below.

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