Reading Time: 7minutes 2021 will make it or break it for publishers. The coming year will double the pressure on media owners, and only the savviest players will stay afloat. Digital advertising as we know it is coming to an end. We are moving to a much more fragmented marketplace, and publishers need to rethink their place in this ecosystem. Publishers will face critical challenges with performance, user identity, and the protection of personal data. In order to
Reading Time: 6minutes At WWDC this year, Apple announced the depreciation of the iOS Users’ Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) with the release of iOS 14. Without a doubt, this is the biggest change in the mobile app advertising ecosystem in the past 10 years. For the advertising industry, IDFA removal will upend and potentially close companies, while creating a tremendous opportunity for others. Given the magnitude of this change, I thought it would be helpful to create a
Reading Time: 3minutes Until recently, digital marketers and ad agency professionals who were looking to make programmatic ad buys confronted a black box data scenario. Most aren’t engineers or data scientists, and they had to take a leap of faith and trust the data provider’s claims about data quality, reviewing results after implementation — and after the purchase was already made. But what should marketers and agencies look for in a data provider? How can they determine which
