Unless you have been living under a digital rock, the mounting outrage about fake impressions is quickening, commensurate with a deepening understanding of ad tech fraud among advertisers. Recently, Forrester confirmed advertisers' suspiscions in a study titled "The End of Advertising As We Know It." In it, the analyst firm argues the current backlash against major publishers and ad networks, including Google and Facebook, comes "as advertisers re-examine their digital spend and demand more transparency."This has been a long time coming, and what follows is clear: advertisers must confront the issue of fraud from all angles -- the buy side and the sell side. This must also include a clear-headed assessment of traffic verification services delivered by outside companies.An honest look at traffic verification practices reveals a deeply disturbing conflict of interest, in that their business model rests entirely on scoring as many impressions as possible as either "good" or "bad." In other words, these verification companies are incentivized to keep impression volumes up -- not to solve the underlying fraud issues, which would naturally reduce the number of impressions scored. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2017-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When posting on Facebook, several content mills use multiple domains for the same article. The websites who use this tactic claim they are A/B testing URL names. But most sources suggested that URL names have no effect on user engagement and that using multiple domains can come off like an... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers are grappling with a decline in home page traffic. Bloomberg Media seems to have found a remedy, though. When it relaunched its tech vertical, rather than implementing the traditional infinite scroll of articles, Bloomberg Media decided to send people to the vertical’s homepage. The... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Influx Press is to publish Hold Tight, a book about black masculinity and Grime music written by Jeffrey Boakye, in July 2017. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Snapchat is encouraging brands to run longer video by buying bigger packages of ads. According to sources, Snap has started pitching brands on a new type of ad package called sequenced messaging, a type of sequential advertising, in recent weeks. The new ad pricing bundles video ads together... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Q&A with NAD assistant director Laura Brett on what publishers should keep in mind when running with the ascendant ad format. The post How Publishers Can Stay Compliant as Regulators Zero-In on Native Ads appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2017-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A roundup of some of our best stories this week: We spoke with publishers about reports that Facebook will start showing ads in the middle of videos. And we spoke with publishers who insist their reporters get an earlier start to their days. Publishers have also found a way to frack more traffic... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook is bringing new publishers into its ad network, including Washington Post, Wenner Media and Univision, and the social network now claims to reach a billion people a month outside its own walls.On Thursday, Facebook announced the updated roster to Audience Network, which has become its... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers are hopeful about the chance to finally turn their Facebook videos into a revenue stream, but creative challenges await them. Ads could bring a welcome source of revenue, but videos will have to be edited with breaks in mind. And most online video that's out there now isn't good... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Every weekday, we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new and trending TV commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, a company that catalogs, tags and measures activity around TV ads in real time. The new releases here ran on TV for the first time yesterday. The Most Engaging ads are showing sustained... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It's the first time the BBB's National Advertising Division has held a publisher responsible for the way native advertising is presented. The post Star Magazine Pulls SlimFast Ads After Better Business Bureau Challenge appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2017-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Older, evergreen content has always been a nice traffic source for digital publishers. But two years after The New York Times identified archival content as an untapped source of traffic, several publishers have grown it into something substantial, with some now generating nearly 40 percent of... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Look out, YouTube. Facebook is trialing mid-roll ads for videos that are viewed for at least 20 seconds, according to a report today by Recode, which cited unnamed industry sources. The digital giant declined to comment on the report. Simply put, Facebook wants to generate cash from the clips... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Instagram is testing video ads inside Stories, the section of the app that was built to challenge Snapchat, according to multiple people briefed on the new ad format."Instagram is testing them now with select publishers and content creators," said one ad agency executive, speaking on condition... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On newsstands and in mailboxes, the 160-year-old magazine continues to defy industry trends. The post Citing a Surge in Subscriptions, The Atlantic Prints Second Run of Jan/Feb Issue appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2017-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tech, trade shows, and digital media drove the majority of deals, while magazine publishers had a relatively quiet year. The post In Media and Tech, M&A Activity Held Steady in 2016 appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2017-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Medium, the online publishing company started by Twitter co-founder Ev Williams, is changing its business model and cutting a third of its staff.The company, which has raised $132 million in venture capital from investors including Greylock Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, relied on the same... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It seems like every new year brings the same old batch of resolutions: lose weight, join a gym, organize that closet once and for all. But according to consumer research firm Nielsen, there’s another self-improvement pledge that’s nearly as popular as fitness: “Enjoy life to the fullest.”That... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2016-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The publisher just released an update on how it has performed in meeting several environmental objectives and announced some new goals for the 2017-2020 period. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It's a challenging time for magazine publishers, right? Of course, because it's a challenging time for anyone in the business of creating content and attracting audiences -- even (or especially) pure-play digital companies.The truth is, there are countless Silicon Valley startups, propped up by... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2016-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Word gets around quickly when products disappoint.' That and other cautions led a special programming sequence at London's FutureBook Conference this month. The post Sector Spotlight: Three Expert Observations on Ed-Tech in the UK appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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