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Trade Bodies Answer Call to Define ‘Made for Advertising’

VideoWeek

The release responds to calls from brands and agencies to clearly define MFA, after the Association of National Advertisers’ (ANA) found that 15 percent of programmatic ad spend goes to MFA sites, representing 21 percent of total impressions. Buying paid traffic is the primary cost driver of operating an MFA business.

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No Longer a Novelty, Attention Metrics are Now Fully Ingrained in Agencies’ Planning and Measurement

VideoWeek

They essentially assume that all reach is equal – that one of twenty ads crammed into a clickbait slideshow is as likely to grab someone’s attention as an ad on a quality news site. Leong said that for Dentsu, attention measurement is a “huge priority”, and that the agency is looking to adopt them across the whole business. “Of

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Houston, We Have a Problem: Malvertising Is a Threat to Our Livelihood

Ad Monsters

Everyday consumers, particularly older Americans, are lured into social engineering scams via clickbait ads promising the secrets of investing, malicious redirects warning that their computers have been hacked, or some other scam. He too clicked on a clickbait ad and talked to scammers who persuaded him to install AnyDesk on his computer.

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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. The real surprise is that there seems to be a growing resignation that these clickbait sites are going to siphon even more money away from respected publishers. Nothing new there. In the U.S.,

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6 Questions About Made-For-Advertising Websites

Basis

It starts with a clickbait headline. But if I were a business owner working with an agency, I would ask, “OK, you generated this many impressions, but what impact did they make?” These sites are built just to generate traffic: They usually pay for traffic to their site and then generate multiple ad impressions on each page.

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What’s happening with cookies?

Monetize More

Third party cookies are cross-domain cookies often set by advertisers, agencies, and DSPs to track users across different sites. Agencies and advertisers and DSPs on the buy-side have already been handling the deprecation of third party cookies for over 2 years. But first, what’s a third party cookie?

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What Will the Next 12 Months Look Like for the Programmatic Supply Chain?

Ad Monsters

For further MFA scrutiny and cleanup, I implore the industry to start looking at the difference between buying traffic to sponsored/branded content, for example, versus misleading clickbait MFA. ” — Justin Wohl “There will certainly be more discourse, and more people (not me) complaining that Made For Advertising is a misnomer.

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