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💡 #Brands Take note how the #NYPost mitigated #cookiepocalypse risk by using Aqfer's identity resolution tech, informed by Prohaska Consulting. In a post 3rd party cookie 🍪 world killer content and segmentation hooked to an adtech #frankenstack results in risk & loss. Pubs and brands need their own 1st party IDR systems to avoid fragmented customer views that result from multiple ID providers & other partners who are all hooked to each other in an attempt to create their own scale. This many-to-many-middlemen scenario has plagued adtech from the start. The result is redundancy, media waste, inconsistent customer experiences and inaccurate measurement. Think of Aqfer IDR like Data tech’s version of SPO 😉 #DPO, enabling clients like the NYPost, to get a single, deduplicated, omnichannel view of their customers. More here - https://lnkd.in/ggjDGWn5 https://lnkd.in/gTNURTu2

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📊 Ad Measurement 🎯 Attribution 📈 Incrementality 📺 Media Mix Modeling (MMM) 🧪 Testing As you know, these are all near and dear to the Round Barn Labs team and me, and they are central to our discussions of learnings on the Always Be Testing podcast! When budgets are tight, and more rigor than ever is needed to measure performance marketing, you better have your ad measurement game TIGHT or TOIT, depending on your preference 😉 Jeff Greenfield is an ad measurement veteran who nails Episode #43. 🏫 Built and sold C3 Metrics based on tagging solutions to understand multi-touch attribution 🏡 Rise of walled gardens, no impression tags in TikTok and Snap 🔏 iOS 14.5 changes 🍪 Pending Cookie Deprecation 💻 Measurement cannot be at the user level anymore 🚀 Launched Provalytics to address a hybrid of MMM and cookieless attribution "The Future of Ad Measurement is on-site improvements and ad and campaign updates." - don't sleep on CRO and its impact here. 🖥 He believes one vendor can take more of the ad measurement market 🔥 Most brands are overinvested in non-brand paid search b/c they are not invested in full-funnel enough. Spotify: https://lnkd.in/d4VhNDv3 Apple: https://lnkd.in/dHUP2HaY

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🚀 Unlock the Future of Marketing! 🚀 Ever wondered how cookie-less attribution is revolutionizing our industry? I had an in-depth chat with Tye DeGrange 📈 on the “Always Be Testing” podcast about this game-changing technology. 🔍 Discover the secrets to data-driven growth and how you can stay ahead in the evolving digital landscape. 🔗 Listen Now Spotify: https://lnkd.in/d4VhNDv3 Apple: https://lnkd.in/dHUP2HaY #MarketingRevolution #DataDriven #Podcast #Cookieless #GrowthHacking #attribution

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Earlier today, Omnicom announced that it will be the first holding company to integrate into the new Instacart Developer Platform (IDP), a publicly available API program that leverages Instacart's industry-leading online grocery platform to supercharge third-party digital experiences. Our Chief Experience Officer, Clarissa Season, noted: "This integration legitimizes influencers as a media channel even more because of the clarity it provides. We view this level of outcomes-based measurement as a significant step forward." You can read the full Digiday piece here: https://lnkd.in/gm7DbAY5 #OmnicomCannes

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Ever curious about what's under the curtain? Dailymotion has just unveiled Auto Path, a groundbreaking high-impact creative tailored specifically for the Auto Industry. By leveraging our Predictive Targeting audience insights and vast scale, we've crafted activations that resonate with car buyers, all while providing measurable in-ad actions with OLV and CTV. Key Standard Features: - Custom Multi-touchpoint elements envelop your video creative - Product feature hotspots seamlessly integrated within the video environment to capture attention - Outbound click features to enhance data collection, site traffic, and conversion rates Experience an exclusive peek behind the scenes... Let us guide you on a test drive and engage seamlessly across all screens! Hit me or our exceptional sales team Brenda Rodriguez Valeria Basmagi Edivaldo Junior to introduce you to this exceptional innovation in Latin America #autopath #Dailymotion #creativeinnovation #predictivetargeting

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For those who have been poring over data about what consumers really want, the decline of TV advertising seems long overdue. But in many ways — talking about TV is like talking about telephone poles. It's just the delivery mechanism. Who caught this fascinating Suzanne Vranica The Wall Street Journal article over the weekend? (Linked it here: https://on.wsj.com/3UyJaJK) While it’s interesting to see major brands like Oreos shift to new media platforms (cutting TV ad dollars entirely on recent campaigns) — successful modern marketing is not simply moving dollars from TV to OTT, CTV or streaming services… It requires a FUNDAMENTAL SHIFT in strategy, creative, and the way that brands tell their stories to empower their audiences. Advertising has been based on interruptive techniques and a reach and frequency model: A brand creates one great campaign and repeats it over and over again. Consumers don’t want that — not on TV or elsewhere. They want brands to carry them through their journey with MEANINGFUL CONTENT that meets their very granular needs throughout their journey. This content can be EMOTIONAL, inspiring people to be a better version of themselves. It can be very FUNCTIONAL as people look for specific features, functionality, differentiators and reasons to buy. Consumers want brands to SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS and help them make SMARTER PURCHASING DECISIONS. Shifting away from traditional TV is just one small step forward. There is a MASSIVE OPPORTUNITY for brands to capture market share through a data-driven, journey-based approach while most corporations remain addicted to antiquated advertising techniques. Agree? Disagree? Let me know your thoughts!

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So This is Fascinating and I am very pleased. This week I posted that we needed responsibility to come back into programmatic. Because otherwise everyone blames others and we end up with a polluted ecosystem (fraud, bad content, MFA, hate etc). I have been talking about this in different ways for years. We need some level of walls to keep out the bad actors. We need some level of responsibility to maintain standards. Its clear that TTD and Jeff Green agree. This is at the nub of the push to the premium internet. With TTD taking some level of responsibility for what happens on their platform. Its also worth saying that the easy option is to do nothing. Many platforms make millions out of poor content in the short term. We need more action like this for the long term. For thats the point. This is not altruistic but acting to secure the long term viability of the channel.

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Another great read from AdExchanger. Allison Schiff continues to shine a light onto the worst of the worst Made For Arbitrage shenanigans. I know some people argue it's tough to differentiate between MFA and simple ad cluttered sites. But the fraud and absolute content garbage is exactly what it looks like. My take? There is too much ad tech crossover between buy side and sell side. Too much disincentive for major change. https://lnkd.in/eEvMhYjn

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✅🖥️ AdExchanger (6/7): “Show-level transparency for FAST channels and CTV overall has improved, but it’s not quite yet where buyers need it to be. One reason publishers consider it risky to share data about TV viewing at the show level is because it may violate the Video Privacy Protection Act if that information is tied to an identifier. Still, there are more ways to anonymize or aggregate data in a way that doesn’t reveal an individual’s identity, which is why publishers have been getting more comfortable providing some degree of show-level transparency in post-campaign reporting. But buyers want more than post-campaign reporting. They also want show-level data in the bid stream, and publishers have still other reasons for not giving it up. One is the historical fear among publishers that advertisers cherry-pick inventory, which they’re obviously more easily able to do when they have more insight into the specific shows their ads are running in. This is a fear FAST channels can capitalize on if they “enrich the bid stream by passing more through to buy-side partners,”one buyer said, referring to show-level metadata. While FAST channels have the same reasons as other streaming apps for not sharing show-level data, they have more motivation to cede some ground to fulfill a top item on most advertiser wish lists.” ⬇️ #streamingtv #ctvadvertising #fast #avod #ott https://lnkd.in/eKvQCRis

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As #thirdparty cookies near deprecation, ad tech companies are innovating to build audiences for media buyers. #Sellside curation is emerging as a key trend, where #firstparty customer data from buyers is matched with publishers' first-party audience data to create private marketplaces (#PMPs). This shift changes the traditional roles of #DSPs, #SSPs, and #DMPs, leading to new dynamics in the #programmatic ecosystem. Key Highlights: ✅ SSP Curation: SSPs now leverage first-party data from publishers, enabling large-scale activation of second- and third-party audiences without third-party cookies. ✅ Data Marketplaces: SSPs are partnering with third-party data providers to enhance audience matching, creating new data marketplaces. ✅ Real-Time Reporting: SSPs offer real-time data matching and reporting, improving transparency and efficiency. ✅ Flexibility and Control: Sell-side curation provides advertisers with more flexibility and control over audience identifiers, bypassing DSP limitations. ✅ Industry Impact: The evolving landscape is creating new opportunities and tensions, as SSPs gain prominence and DSPs adjust to reduced control. As the ad tech industry adapts to the loss of third-party cookies, sell-side curation is transforming how audiences are built and targeted, paving the way for a more connected and efficient advertising ecosystem. #sellsidecuration #programmatic #advertising

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Excited to have discussed the future of CTV contextual targeting with Matthew Kramer from Media Monks and Susie Stulz from AdMonsters. We explored why emotions are pivotal for CTV targeting. As Lead for Agencies & Brands at Wurl, we're leveraging generative AI to advance CTV advertising and the move towards nuanced contextual targeting. Understanding audience emotions enables us to craft more impactful ad experiences and drive better outcomes for advertisers. Thanks, Matt and Susie, for the insightful conversation! Eager to see how our industry embraces this new era of CTV targeting. #CTV #Wurl #MediaMonks #GenAI

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Wow, information overload and mind blown by the IAB #NewFronts this week. A few presentations and announcements that stood out: *Disney, Paramount, NBCUniversal and Warner Bros. Discovery will make their ad inventory available via Google's DV360 platform *With VIZIO now selling "home screen inventory," they're in a unique position to drive ad innovation by owning the hardware, operating system, and data to promise a better user experience *Roku unveiled partnerships with The Trade Desk and iSpot.TV to ease programmatic buying and measurement *Comscore will be the first to measure real world consumer actions driven by Linear TV advertising through their outcomes-focused collaboration with Kochava *Teads is integrating TVision's TV viewer engagement data with Adelaide's attention metrics to introduce one of the most comprehensive omnichannel planning solutions available *Advertisers can now target Kroger audiences through Yahoo's DSP in a first-of-its-kinds retail media data sharing partnership between Yahoo Advertising and Kroger Precision Marketing *Atmosphere TV showcased the power localizing national media at scale to capture unique attention when consumers are watching TV outside of their home and the ease of driving local store sales during relevant drive windows And so many more great insights you should look up from GSTV, Samba TV, Canela Media, Nielsen, LG Ad Solution, Telly, Influential, and more. #iabnewfronts #media #mediastrategy #mediabuying #mediagency #digitalmedia #ctv #lineartv #marketingstrategy #commerce #retailmedia #dsp #performancemarketing #performancemedia #mediameasurement

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✅⬇️ AdExchanger (5/24): “To some degree, the digitization of TV marketing is inevitable. Wall Street investors prefer advertising and media companies with the most promising long-term profitability. One way to get there is for streaming companies to access shopper data and strike partnerships with retailers to court advertisers with the promise of performance and attribution. Publishers want to relabel connected TV as a performance channel, (an analyst) said. But if that happens, she continued, “CTV will lose its cred” among buyers and brands as a viable replacement for legacy linear commercials. Say what you will about linear, but it’s a mass reach vehicle. And if CTV doesn’t provide the same reach opportunity, Wall Street may cool on public companies with a CTV advertising business, (the analyst) said. The reality is, upper-funnel channels, like streaming, have a strong downstream impact on outcomes even if they don’t directly drive a purchase. For example, CTV’s ability to drive mass reach and brand awareness is why more retail media spend is moving to streaming, said Max Willens, a senior analyst at eMarketer, also speaking at Programmatic I/O this week. According to eMarketer, the proportion of retail media spend going to CTV should grow from 12% this year to 20% by the end of 2027.” ⬇️ #shoppabletv #streamingtv #programamtic #ctv https://lnkd.in/eu7AbtTU

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🎧 Personal Insights on the Impact of Podcast Advertising 🎧 After reading Curt Steinhorst's fascinating piece on "5 Reasons Podcast Ads Outperform," I couldn't agree more with the intimate attention capture that podcasts offer. Here are some key takeaways that resonated with me: Hyper-Targeted Reach - The specificity with which podcasts can target audiences aligns perfectly with my experiences in digital marketing. It's about reaching the right ears, not just more ears. **Trust and Influence - The relationship between podcast hosts and their listeners is profoundly impactful. This trust translates into higher ad effectiveness, something I've observed with the campaigns I've managed. **Engaging Storytelling - As someone who values compelling narratives, I see how storytelling in podcasts keeps listeners hooked not only to the content but also to the ads embedded within, increasing their effectiveness. **Steinhorst’s article is a must-read for anyone looking to understand why podcast advertising is becoming a gold standard in digital marketing. Check out his insights linked below. Has your experience with podcast ads mirrored these findings? I'd love to hear your stories! #AdTech #MarketingTrends #DigitalMarketing #Podcasts

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In the words of The Trade Desk's Chief Commercial Officer, Tim Sims, "With connected TV (CTV) at the forefront of a new approach to identity and authentication, publishers small and large are seeing the value of taking back control." As the 2024 upfronts approach, advertisers plan to reduce their linear investments and increase their CTV investments, which points to the availability of premium digital TV content at scale.

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Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal wrote about how Television Advertising has lost its relevance - but I think they're misreading signals. Television advertising remains incredibly powerful - 60% of consumers in our most recent AD.VANTAGE study told us TV ads helped them make purchase decisions - outpacing all other forms of advertising. The problem? Brands and marketers have stopped knocking each other over to BUY television ads - we need to SELL them again - and most sales teams aren't set up to, you know..... sell. More details and some proposed solutions in our blog at Magid.com - or shoot me a note and let's chat about how to accelerate demand for your sales teams. #broadcastsales #salesstrategy #GTM #leadgen #aitools #aisalestools #aimarketing

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