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How DPG Media Built Its Own (Mostly) Google-Free Ad Platform

Publishers know their competition, and, increasingly, they aren’t competing with other pubs; they’re competing with Big Tech. Belgian publishing house DPG Media made news last week for its decision to stop selling in-app ads on the programmatic open market, just one of many moves it’s made on its journey to disentangle itself from the influence

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Amazon Prime Video Officially Sold Out of Black Friday NFL Ad Inventory

In a conversation at ADWEEK’s Mediaweek, Amazon head of U.S. live sports and video sales Danielle Carney confirmed that the streamer sold out of ad inventory for its Black Friday National Football League game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Las Vegas Raiders. And conversations were already kicking off at the beginning of the year….

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Balancing Accuracy, Richness And Scale For Effective Audience Targeting

Digital advertisers should be able to agree that there are about 345 million people in the US, making up about 133 million households. But, historically, media buying has been all about scale, even if it meant outrageously false population counts on audience segments.  More recently, advertisers have started to accept that there is a correlation

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Here’s how the Daily Mail intends to tackle election coverage on TikTok

With over 20 million followers spread across 12 TikTok accounts, the Daily Mail is on a mission to elevate that number even further by seizing the prime opportunity presented by the U.S. presidential election.  The short-form video platform has transformed into a vital battleground as Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donal Trump duke

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For Reach plc, Google Discover has offset search-driven traffic declines

Is Google Discover overtaking Google Search as a referral traffic source for publishers? That’s not clickbait. It’s true, at least for Reach plc.  As has been the case for many media companies this year, the U.K. publisher has seen its referral traffic from Google’s search engine slip over the past 12 months.  Continue reading this

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Future of TV Briefing: A Q&A with MSNBC’s Rashida Jones

This week’s Future of TV Briefing features a conversation with MSNBC president Rashida Jones about how the TV news network’s digital strategy has evolved this year and how that figures into its Election Day coverage plans. ‘We’ve got to keep the machine going’ Amazon’s pay-per-stream offer, political ad dollars and more ‘We’ve got to keep

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