"Daily Mail" ran an eye-tracking study with Lumen Research challenging the a long-held practice among brands to take brand-safety measures that avoid ads running alongside scandalous, negative or
undesirable news content.
"I love the poorly educated," Trump famously said after polls showed they contributed to his Nevada caucus win in 2016. Turns out he had - and has - good reason. Voters who are poorly educated about
the facts of key campaign issues - including inflation, immigration and violent crime - are much more likely to vote for Trump than Democratic rival Kamala Harris, according to new research released
Thursday by Ipsos' political tracking team in what was their last monthly campaign briefing before the 2024 presidential election.
NordVPN has found billions of ad tracking cookies leaked on the dark web. At least 1.5 billion were from the U.S.
"If your team is in power, you feel a little bit more confident about the economy," Ipsos data journalist Sarah Feldman explained during the team's fist monthly election tracker briefing of 2024.
Here's one more reason to say goodbye to tracking browser cookies.
Brands often encounter challenges in planning timely and relevant campaigns, according to Riley Mackey, associate media director at Charts + Darts, a full-service agency.
A recent survey of advertisers and agency execs found 60% of reported moderate to "extreme pressure" from the brands they work with to drive even better ad performance. Here are some of the media
combinations that perform the best.
Amazon Web Services has announced data-matching capabilities for advertisers using AWS Entity Resolution through integrations with LiveRamp, TransUnion, and Unified ID 2.0.
Despite pushback from its biggest market for TikTok Shop, the social media platform is testing a new in-app wallet that could help simplify users' purchases through a centralized payments tracking
platform that includes a currency native to TikTok.
TikTok led across CPG categories for Gen Z, with Instagram the second-most influential social-media platform for product discovery and Facebook third, Gen Z was three times more likely to opt in to
tracking than Boomers and to receive more relevant ads when using online news and media sites, rather than opting out of tracking and receiving less relevant ads.
Stagwell is integrating the Harris Poll with state-of-the-art research software developer Maru Group to accelerate it, make it more affordable and self-service.
As opaque as dark money is in paid media, what's its influence in the biggest part of the political campaign mix: earned media?
A government operated Missouri website that offers information about COVID-19 appears to have sent ad-related data about visitors to TikTok, researchers at Princeton University reported this week.
More than half of executives in a recent survey by IDC agreed user tracking will soon become obsolete. Yet more than 40% are not familiar with targeting technologies other than advertising
identifiers.
Delivery trucks and buggies may have been the original OOH vehicle. Goodlife apparel reshuffled the idea with branded office trucks tagged with tracking beacons. The truly innovative model allowed the
brand to retarget street level viewers with digital e-commerce promotions. How did this novel use of old school signage and new school activation not only drive digital traffic but explode social
awareness? Goodlife Clothing's VP of Growth, Jesse Miller, brings us inside the great delivery truck caper.
"The data clearly debunks the perception of globalization going into reverse gear. Globalization is not just a buzzword, it's a powerful force that has transformed our world for the better," says DHL
CEO John Pearson, adding: "we can build a brighter future that benefits us all, creating a world that is more interconnected, more prosperous and more peaceful than ever before."
"My feeling is it's a blip and we'll see that stabilize in the next wave," predicts Advertiser Perceptions' Sarah Bolton, who has been tracking ad exec concerns about trust in advertising and
misinformation.
Privacy laws that require companies to obtain consumers' consent don't go far enough, a new report suggests.
Data tracking and the role that big tech companies play online is one of the greatest concerns for parents in the U.S., at 69%, vs. parents in the U.K. -- at 6%, according to data released Thursday.
As Avocados From Mexico transforms its media and analytics and migrates its user IDs to a new platform, it needed to better understand their own base. As a preamble to our panel on ID tracking,
Avocados' Director of Media, Jovanny Martinez, shares a test-and-learn project the brand applied to different behaviors on its own site. What is the difference between prospects who click and those
who dwell? Should they be identified and retargeted differently?
Meta was hit with a new privacy lawsuit for allegedly collecting data about smartphone users' online activity by injecting tracking code into sites visited through the company's in-app browser.
Publishers using Next-Gen Solutions -- now available for the open web -- must also have adopted Yahoo ConnectID, which enhances audience matching, enabling advertisers to deliver more relevant
messaging.
Brands are already paying more to reach Apple customers after the iPhone maker introduced more privacy protections.
Contextual advertising awareness has a steep hill to climb. But brands like Frito Lay, which has tackled the challenge, have found success, GumGum data shows. James Clarke, Frito Lay senior director,
media strategy and CRM, believes success in contextual advertising is less dependent on the brand being advertised and more so on the strength of alignment between messaging and creative with the
surrounding environment in which the ad is placed.
A new report asserts mobile app developers will abandon advertising as a business model. Here's why I disagree.
Gartner analysts predict changes in media, from mobile app tracking to how B2B companies will use machine learning to slow the customer journey. Strategic planning may be the most interesting part of
the report.
Contextual targeting is projected to be the dominant form of consumer ad targeting within a year, overtaking behavioral targeting tracking people's identities and behaviors via their use of digital
media and devices.
A study of the impact of ownership and control of consumer-generated data shows advertisers can be harmed by limited sharing of information. Giving consumers rights over their own data can improve
outcomes.
Data from Milestone research shows local is the second-largest channel behind organic search. The two organic channels combined dominate the traffic at 69%, in page views, and channel revenue
contribution.
"Opt-in rates are expected to be very low, which effectively ends the IDFA as a reliable identifier of users," Trip Chowdhry, managing director of equity research at Global Equities Research, wrote in
a research note published Monday.