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During certain periods this year, advertisers blocked more than 40% of The Washington Post’s inventory over brand safety concerns.

Google and the DOJ are currently questioning witnesses regarding how particular ad channels are established as defined markets. Plus, a wave of freelance advertising consultants has arrived.

The IAB Tech Lab’s seller-defined audience (SDA) spec is touted as a key contextual targeting alternative for the post-third-party-cookie digital ad ecosystem – one predicated on privacy-friendly addressability and publisher first-party data monetization. Some publishers are enthusiastic about testing SDA campaigns in the run-up to Google’s 2023 deadline for the phaseout of third-party cookies in Chrome. There is growing concern, however, about a marked lack of advertiser interest in doing the same.

At Programmatic I/O in Las Vegas, CafeMedia’s Paul Bannister, Tinuiti’s Nirish Parsad and Insider’s Jana Meron weighed in on the ad industry’s worsening signal-loss problem due to the deprecation of device identifiers and third-party cookies.

What does it mean, in practice, to take a privacy-first approach to addressability? Respecting the consumer, of course. But it also means living in “data privacy hell.”

Last week, a federal judge unsealed previously redacted portions of an antitrust lawsuit poking into Google’s allegedly monopolistic ad practices. Will these revelations actually change the way publishers and advertisers spend with Google, or is Google too entrenched? And how much ammunition do these disclosures give regulators in their quest to rein in Google? We asked the experts.

The first slur against programmatic, dating to about 2008, was that RTB stood for “race to the bottom.” In the same year Jeff Zucker, then CEO of NBCU, decried the trade of “analog dollars for digital dimes.” Since then programmatic’s reputation – and its associated revenue value to media companies – has improved dramatically. But […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jana Meron, vice president of programmatic and data strategy at Business Insider. Jana will present “Insider View From The Publisher” at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC I/O New York conference Oct. 25-26. Ad fraud is a much-discussed headache for […]

Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Business Insider’s Jana Meron will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC IO New York conference on October 25-26 in a presentation titled “Insider View From The Publisher.” Meron is a big booster of ads.txt, the new IAB Tech Lab-created initiative that lets publishers easily broadcast a list of their […]