Despite the IAB Tech Lab’s clear specifications, 33% of contextual SDA signals and 75% of user SDA signals fail to meet the necessary signal requirements.
Buyers already have access to the same information from the same trusted third-parties that publishers use to define Contextual Categories. So why bother?
With so much reliance on third parties in all of our businesses, it is important to remain appropriately skeptical and vet each company.
If CNAME access and third-party cookies go away, identity companies – and most of their clients and partners – are going to get hurt, and badly, writes Kevin Mullen, chief product officer at Roq.ad.
Success in the first-party web is based first and foremost on relationships, quality and trust, neither of which are improved by most content currently provided by recommendation engines, writes audience and data strategy consultant Alessandro De Zanche.
Podcaster adoption of dynamic ad insertion (DAI) increased from less than 50% in 2019 to a whopping 84% in 2021. But for podcasters to get the most value out of DAI, they need an open environment. Using DAI within a walled garden makes it harder to get the full benefit of great innovation, writes Jon Stephenson, Founder and CEO of SoundStack.
Brand marketers are still hesitant to lean into a mobile-first approach, particularly in programmatic. But with the mobile app economy predicted to grow to $156 billion by 2023, why the uncertainty? Today, the digital advertising industry has the opportunity to transform the mobile app channel by acknowledging, understanding and tackling marketers’ concerns, writes Steve Roach, head of mobile app sales at Index Exchange.
SSPs had traditionally been among the first in the ad tech ecosystem to build profitable businesses. But their future in the programmatic tech stack is uncertain because they’ve evolved from publisher-centric technologies to demand aggregation businesses, often competing with their biggest customers: buy-side platforms or DSPs.
Publishers’ operational success depends on the abilities of a few specific individuals. If you have amazing operations leaders that can think strategically, you can do things other publishers can’t. But lose that leadership and the company’s future prospects take a hit, writes Rob Beeler, founder and CEO at Beeler.Tech.
In theory, there is a lot a publisher may know about how audiences interact with their content that doesn’t fit neatly into the way cookies operate or the broader categorization schemas that are used today. This is where SDAs can make all the difference, writes Andrew Rosenman, global product marketing lead for advanced TV and video at Equativ.
