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Caught between resignation and resistance, ad industry grapples with the prevalence of ‘made-for-advertising’ sites

Digiday

A recent study from Ebiquity found that advertisers are spending roughly a tenth of their budgets on clickbait sites. Time and again reports spotlight how often ad dollars end up anywhere but premium sites. billion that 42 clients of Ebiquity spent on programmatic display and video ads across 5,490 unique MFA domains.

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AI is Driving the Proliferation of Made for Advertising Websites

VideoWeek

You won’t believe what happened next Ad Fontes Media found that that even legitimate publishers use “curiosity gap” headlines, also known as clickbait, and many of these outlets are rated as reliable. “There are legitimate sites that use these tactics,” says Otero. It’s just revenue-first.”

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What’s happening with cookies?

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Although some publishers should expect some hiccups in the status quo of operations as with every major industry change, these sky-is-falling cookiepocalypse predictions are doomsday cult prophecies at best, and clickbait at worst. For starters, cookiepocalypse already arrived in 2020. The revenue on those platforms didn’t go to zero.

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The WIR: Vice to Shutter Website, Google Expands GenAI in Performance Max, and FuboTV Sues Sports Streaming JV

VideoWeek

The Week in Tech RTL and ProSieben Combine Ad Tech Stacks in Latest Push for European Collaboration RTL Deutschland and ProSiebenSat.1 1 this week announced they will combine their ad tech offerings in efforts to bolster the German ad market. Read more on VideoWeek. Read more on VideoWeek.

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The WIR: German Broadcasters Cooperate on Streaming, Google Vows to Fight Breakup of Ads Business, and Publicis Posts Another Strong Quarter

VideoWeek

Google Vows to Fight the Breakup of its Ad Business Google has warned the European Union that it will fight legislative attempts to break up its ad business. X is also testing a new “clickbait” style ad that cannot be blocked or reported, according to Campaign. percent organic growth in Q3.

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Will sustainability efforts introduce a ‘green levy’ into the ad tech tax?

Digiday

Effectively, the latter approach could potentially result in a new green levy to the already bothersome ad tech tax – one that already consumes approximately 50% of every dollar that marketers write, but one that is ethically difficult to begrudge for responsible practitioners. Look out for greenwashing.

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The WIR: Criteo Slapped with €40 Million GDPR Fine, Omnicom Goes on an AI Offensive, and RTL Pushes into Programmatic for Addressable Inventory

VideoWeek

Top Stories French Data Regulator Fines Criteo €40 Million Over GDPR Breach France’s data regulator, the CNIL, this week hit French ad tech business Criteo with a €40 million fine for five breaches of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). “Digital advertising is the lifeblood of the online economy.

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