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At least two digital media companies are exploring the fediverse as a way to take more control over their referral traffic and onsite audience engagement. This comes at a time when walled gardens like Facebook and X are becoming less reliable for driving readers to publishers’ sites.
The Verge and 404 Media are building out new functions that would allow them to distribute posts on their...
As Google expands its new “AI Overview” feature, publishers are wondering to what degree AI-generated search results will negatively impact referral traffic. And while it’s too soon to tell the extent of the damage, some companies are hoping for more transparency from the search giant.
Following AI Overview’s rollout last week, some think the impact could be even worse than feared.
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Jenny Haggard, global thought leadership lead, Spotify Advertising
The prevailing sentiment in marketing is the shorter the content, the better. In an attention economy, capturing people’s eyes and ears is challenging, so advertisers tend to believe that keeping content brief — no matter the message — promises more views, streams and engagement.
However, one proven exception to this rule is...
In this upfront cycle, modern savvy advertisers want to align their campaign performance with business outcomes, not just media metrics. Multi-screen attribution is an effective tool for brands because it allows the advertiser to understand the customer’s behavior on a granular level by providing holistic insights on linear and streaming television in one report. Deterministic multi-screen...
Earlier this month, ads served through ad tech giant Colossus were found by Adalytics to have mislabeled IDs attached to ad impressions.
In light of the discovery, ad tech execs accused Colossus of tricking advertisers into buying audiences they weren’t trying to target. The claim was that the sell-side platform was changing the user ID attached to an ad impression to make it more appealing to...
TikTok’s uncertain future in the U.S. could be a win for Snap, especially as the TikTok ban calls into question the billions of dollars currently driving the short-form video app’s ad business.
The TikTok ban that had been brewing since former President Donald Trump’s time in office finally came to head this year, spurring marketers to draw up contingency plans out of caution. TikTok punched...
Goodway Group this month added two new brands to focus on the modern marketing funnel and retail media expertise as part of its strategic expansion into growing areas of the industry.
The digital media agency network in early May launched Gradiant, an agency offshoot that focuses on brand visibility across the entire marketing funnel, and G-Comm, a retail media accelerator aimed at addressing...
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Print renaissance?
Two digital publishers are getting back into the print game this year, which is a sentence likely hard to believe in 2024.
And while the advertising revenue opportunities of print are a mixed bag, execs at BDG’S Nylon and Complex NTWRK’s Complex say they aren’t necessarily hanging their hats on this being the brand new revenue driver going forward. Instead, they’re using...
TikTok’s latest machine learning ad solutions are proof that the platform wants to automate as much of its advertising as possible.
The product, dubbed Performance Automation, was announced at the platform’s fourth annual TikTok World product summit today — its first official summit since Biden signed the TikTok “divest or sell” bill last month, and subsequently the entertainment app took the...