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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

The move follows the Association of National Advertisers’ (ANA) finding that 15 percent of programmatic ad spend goes on MFA sites, representing 21 percent of total impressions. Therefore clickbait is not necessarily MFA, as long as it is actively serving a community or deployed alongside actual news.

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What’s happening with cookies?

Monetize More

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: 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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Maximizing ROI: Analysis of Native vs Display Ads

Smart-Hub

In terms of use cases, display ads can be effective when the company has low brand awareness (for instance, when only entering the market). When designed properly, they can give a strong first impression. If a user has already interacted with a brand somehow, a display ad can easily remind them about the company and its products.

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The WIR: Snap Sees Slowing Ad Demand, BT’s Sports Project with WarnerBros Discovery gets the Green Light, and IPA Bellwether shows Stagnant Ad Budgets

VideoWeek

Report Shows Advertisers Spending Up to 10 Percent of Budgets on Clickbait. Advertisers are spending around 10 percent of their budgets on clickbait sites, according to research by DeepSee, Jounce Media and Ebiquity. AdPlayer.Pro Surpasses 52 Million Daily Served Impressions.

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AdMonsters 2022 Premium Playbook Pack

Ad Monsters

As an industry, ad tech understands the importance of audience feedback. High-performing and relevant ads would not exist without the consumer’s input. . While automation has done wonders for publishers’ impressions, a few breaches remain in the armor. How Clickbait Ad Scams are Devised & Impact Publishers’ Sites.