• Is Social Key To Innovating Sports Digital Advertising Experience?
    Advertisers and sponsors clamor to be involved with sports, given the unique opportunity for brands to align themselves with the passion fans feel. The sports industry as a whole has evolved to meet the needs of a growing fan base, and advertisers that are hoping to capture fans' attention, in all aspects except one: The digital advertising side still falls short.
  • Finding The Answer In Search
    Eighty-five percent of all digital advertising dollars don't get spent with premium online publishers. Instead, that ad spend goes to just two companies. What makes this so alarming is that the eyeballs are there. Traditionally, that's the issue with any struggling media -- the consumers aren't there -- but that's never been the problem with online publishers. Fraud, non-human traffic and viewability issues are mild symptoms at best. If those issues went away tomorrow, 85% of all digital ad dollars would still not be spent on premium publishers. So what's the problem?
  • The ANA Is Adding Insult To Injury
    For the past few days I've had the pleasure of participating in the Advertising Research Foundation's 2016 Audience Measurement conference. While my overall experience has been great, the conference was off to a bad start for me. The closing session on Sunday afternoon, titled "Ad Fraud & Blocking: The Industry Update from the Front Lines," featured several industry luminaries, including Bob Liodice, president and CEO of the Association of National Advertisers (ANA). During that session, Liodice managed to rankle me -- not once but twice.
  • The Hypocrisy Of The Transparency Debate
    After a few months of relative quiet, the issue of transparency is once again rearing its ugly head, thanks to a recent report by the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) titled "An Independent Study of Media Transparency in the U.S. Advertising Industry." Not surprisingly, the report has generated a lot of noise in the industry, and advertisers are once again up in arms about what they perceive to be shady, if not outright illegitimate business practices on the part of agencies. While I would not condone illegitimate business practices, I find the outrage to be highly hypocritical and, frankly, pretty …
  • Fixing The Pricing Problem Behind Private Exchanges
    When people hear complicated communication, they nod their heads so they don't seem confused - but inside, their gut is pushing the "someone is trying to sell us something" panic button. The words used to describe private exchanges are still unnecessarily complicated.
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