Socialbakers, the unified marketing platform for enterprise brands, announced it is enhancing its marketing solutions to include paid social media oversight and control across multiple ad accounts with the introduction of Socialbakers Paid Analytics. As brands are shifting more budget to social media advertising, it becomes paramount that the budget owners gain a clear understanding […]
Facebook has implemented a series of updates to its suite of ad tools designed to improve the transparency behind targeted of content. The changes include providing people with the reasoning behind why they are being shown specific ads beyond a simple demographic match or internet history. Now more detailed targeting information will be supplied including the specific interests […]
TabMo has become the first mobile advertising demand side platform (DSP) to be a certified adopter of Fenestra’s blockchain technology in a move that verifies TabMo’s continued commitment to transparency. Inefficiencies, hidden costs and opaque trading agreements in the programmatic ecosystem drive overall lack of transparency, which in turn fuels the ongoing problem of ad fraud […]
A new tie-up between digital design agency, Sigma, and two leading eCommerce companies – Storm and InRiver – is aiming to deliver best-in-class eCommerce capability, while fostering a greater degree of responsibility, transparency and inclusivity in online customer experience. The initiative will establish digital and technical foundations for businesses to drive ethical customer experiences in their […]
Six of the top advertising exchanges have come to a mutual agreement, promising to clean up the programmatic buying experience by being more efficient, transparent, and fair. An open letter signed by Rubicon Project, OpenX, Pubmatic, Sovrn, SpotX and Telaria speaks of a commitment “to unleashing the full potential of programmatic advertising” by providing transparent marketplace principles for […]
Quantcast, which owns and operates the world’s largest AI-driven audience insights platform for the open internet, announced the launch of Quantcast Choice. Available from May 15 for free, Quantcast Choice is the first widely available implementation of the IAB Europe’s Transparency and Consent Framework. The product has been in beta since February and is already […]
Google is to make it easier for users to understand what data it collects on them and why ahead of EU regulators implementing the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on 25 May. The firm hasn’t announced any sweeping changes to its data policies, instead like Facebook it’s seeking to improve “user transparency” by giving […]
According to 62% of marketers surveyed by the Chief Marketing Officer Council, reports about false and faulty metrics have caused them to pull back on spend. While 38% have started to question advertising rates, 24% have already reduced spend with Facebook and Google. In fact, negative headlines about Facebook and Google has had a knock-on […]
Facebook posted $11.8 billion in advertising revenue for Q1 2018, a 50% increase over the same period last year, according to its earnings report for the quarter. Mobile ad revenue represented about 91% of ad revenue in Q1, up from 85% a year ago. The number of daily active users on the platform increased 13% […]
AdLedger, the non-profit research and development consortium, is joining forces with IBM and online news outlet Salon Media for a proof of concept blockchain project. The project leverages a shared ledger to deliver on blockchain’s promise to bring transparency to advertising. The ledger acts as a trailing audit, ensuring optimal yield management and ROI for […]