TransUnion discusses the state of the economy in their survey, Trading Down: Inflation Impact on Consumer Spending in July 2022. Inflation may be at an all-time high, but Consumers are still spending and pushing the economy forward. How much longer the consumer can keep up their spending power is up…
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Secure Data Recovery conducted a study to find out which apps American consumers trust least with their data collection practices. They discovered that women's health apps are the least trusted with data, and around 61% of people surveyed deleted an app because of data collection and privacy concerns.
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When Mark D. Walker, Co-Founder and CEO, Direct Digital Holdings, started in the media business in the 90s, he heard murmurings that the consumer landscape was evolving to become more ethnically diverse. Black Americans drove culture and wielded immense spending power, birth rates for Hispanic Americans were rising, and LGBTQIA+…
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Advertisers’ businesses boom yearly on Black Friday as they promote their annual sales. Last year, Black Friday saw another big boom — cookie stuffing — marking a sharp increase in fraudulent ad impressions.
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Emodo Institute took a deep dive into the wonderful world of marketer KPIs to showcase just how dramatically they were affected by cookie and ID loss. Most notably, the study uncovered that out of all the metrics advertisers use to measure campaign effectiveness, only engagement and attention appear to be…
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Publishers and advertisers are concerned that going cookieless will make it harder to reach their audiences and hinder their revenue growth, but 33Across’ recent programmatic study argues quite the opposite. In fact, as demand increases spend on cookieless inventory, CPMs will continue to slowly rise.
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Environmental sustainability has become a global priority amongst many industries. With research on how our carbon footprint has affected the environment, everyone has begun to reassess how they can make their workflow more sustainable. A recent study by Sharethrough provides a substantial explanation of how the ad tech industry can…
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The findings of a recent IAS report, Advertising in the Age of Misinformation, have some serious warnings for the entire ad tech ecosystem as 62% of consumers believe that advertisers, agencies, and publishers are equally responsible for ads appearing near misinformation.
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A recent study conducted by Blockthrough iterates that ad-blocking on desktops is close to its all-time high from 2018. As of now, ad blocking has 290 million global users. So how do publishers reach their ad-blocked audience? According to the study, acceptable ads are the way to go. The beauty of acceptable…
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Pubs, have you recently seen a decrease in website tracking from late May to mid-June? If so, Google may be to blame for this. Google makes hundreds of algorithm updates each year, some minor, some major, and the core updates take place every few months. The last time Google rolled…
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