Marketing

Amid 2025’s signal crisis, identity graphs are boosting efficiency

Nate Carter, vp, global sales, agency and identity, Dun & Bradstreet Marketers today are operating in the aftermath of a fundamental shift. The signals that once powered precise targeting are disappearing. Regulatory crackdowns, shifts in consumer behavior and changes among major ad platforms have all converged to create a fragmented, foggy view of the customer […]

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After Xandr: Why The Open Internet’s Future Hinges On Integration, Not Fragmentation

Microsoft’s decision to shutter its Xandr DSP, formerly AppNexus, a pioneer in programmatic advertising, is reverberating throughout the ad tech industry.  As Microsoft itself puts it: “Our commitment to more private and personalized advertising experiences for a conversational and agentic world is not achievable with the industry’s current DSP model and, therefore, it no longer

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Signal Versus Noise: Rethinking Frequency Management Without Ad IDs

Frequency capping has long relied on a static “set it and forget it” mindset: once every 24 hours, three times every seven days and so on. This passive approach to avoiding consumer ad overexposure relies on the presence of ad identifiers, which continue to deteriorate. New approaches like performance-based frequency use advanced modeling to determine

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Google’s Move Toward Attention Metrics Could Be A Viewability Killer, Says Jaguar Land Rover

Could Google’s embrace of attention metrics help the industry evolve past easily manipulated viewability measurement? Danny Zhu, director of digital and performance marketing at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) North America, thinks so. “Google DV360 adding Adelaide’s Attention Unit (AU) metric as an optimization signal is “going to be a game changer for us,” Zhu told

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Microsoft shuttering Xandr Invest suggests Big Tech is shrinking from the open web

The closure of Microsoft Advertising’s demand-side platform is part of a broader shift toward AI-powered advertising and (arguably) the dawn of a new world order, one where Big Tech and independents operate in separate spheres. That’s the opinion of several Digiday sources consulted in the days since the May 14 announcement, with some wondering what

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