Marketing

Verification Providers Missed Easy-To-Spot Bots, Says Adalytics. What Went Wrong?

Friday’s Adalytics report about ads being served en masse to known bots leaves plenty of unanswered questions. But they mainly boil down to this: How could so many different verification providers and ad tech platforms miss something so simple? AdExchanger discussed the report and its findings with more than a dozen industry sources. The majority

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SafeGuard Privacy’s MSCA Tool Aims To Simplify The Chaos Of Compliance

Privacy lawyers and ad tech folks often don’t speak the same language. But at least now they’ve got an acronym in common: MSCA. It stands for “Multistate Substantial Compliance Assessment,” and it’s a new tool developed by privacy compliance startup SafeGuard Privacy that businesses can use to do vendor due diligence and manage their compliance

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How smaller retail media networks are stepping out from the shadow of Amazon and Walmart

Despite there being a sea of more than 250 retail media networks, the reality is that it works out to be Amazon, Walmart and everybody else. Everybody else — in other words, the smaller players like Best Buy Ads and DoorDash — has spent Q1 of this year working to step out of Amazon and

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Publishers grapple with Q1 ad revenue challenges in a “buyer’s market”

It’s been a tough three months for publishers, according to executives who spoke during a closed-door town hall session at the Digiday Publishing Summit in Vail, Colorado, last week. “Not a great quarter. Traffic’s down. Advertisers are very timid in spending. They’re in a wait-and-see mode. So this is definitely the downslope. We expect it

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Media Buying Briefing: Auto marketers aren’t slowing ad spend in face of tariff tension

President Trump’s latest tariff proposal is creating headaches for automotive marketers and media buyers, but they’re not slamming the brakes on media spend just yet. The uncertainty created by the mere threat of tariffs can often lead to marketplace confusion, consumer hesitancy and unnecessary pullbacks in media spend. This is a member-exclusive article from Digiday.

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TV upfronts-style Spotter Showcase pitches creators as the future of entertainment

The creator platform Spotter last Friday hosted the Spotter Showcase, an upfront-style event featuring top YouTube creators. Both the event’s organizers and participants took to the stage to broadcast a clear message: that YouTube is most definitely TV. Spotter’s creator upfront in NYC, which was hosted by YouTubers Colin and Samir and showcased talent such

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Episode 4 Mom’s at Work: Ticker Tape Minds — How moms make it all work and why we need to talk about it

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify Working moms constantly juggle two nonstop ticker tapes — one filled with work deadlines, the other carrying the endless mental load of motherhood. It’s a daily reality that rarely gets the attention it deserves. In this episode of Mom’s at Work — WorkLife’s limited edition podcast on the challenges working

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