Why ad buyers are slow to embrace attention metrics

Premium publishers have been pushing the idea of selling ads based on attention time, saying that the longer people spend on a site, the more value there is for advertisers. But some ad buyers aren’t biting. Too few publishers are selling this way. For some advertisers, the goal isn’t to be in view a long time but just to get a click, and, said Mediacom’s Steve Carbone, “I’ve seen click-through rates for ads that were up for a tenth of a second.” The post Why ad buyers are slow to embrace attention metrics appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at 'Digiday'

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