The Rocky Path Agencies are Forced to Traverse: An Agency Perspective on Supply Path Optimization

The digital media market once managed by direct insertion orders (IOs) is now a complex and ever-evolving ecosystem driven by programmatic buying. At its core, programmatic buying aims to simplify and streamline the digital media buying process. In practice however, it is not as streamlined and simplistic as we would aspire. Agencies often have to […]

The Rocky Path for Agencies Paper: an agency perspective on supply path optimization

The digital media market once managed by direct insertion orders (IOs) is now a complex and ever-evolving ecosystem driven by programmatic buying. At its core, programmatic buying aims to simplify and streamline the digital media buying process. In practice however, it is not as streamlined and simplistic as we would aspire. Agencies often have to […]

Q1 2022 Global Connected TV (CTV) Ad Supply Chain Trends Report: 32% growth in programmatic ad spend; LG market share surges 233%

Report reveals 92% of U.S. households are now reachable via programmatic CTV advertising; Roku remains dominant device type with 47% programmatic CTV ad market share LONDON and PALO ALTO, Calif, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Pixalate, the market-leading fraud protection, privacy, and compliance analytics platform for Connected TV (CTV) and Mobile Advertising, today released the […]

H1 2021 Global Connected TV (CTV) Ad Supply Chain Trends Report

One of Pixalate’s most popular reports every year has been published again. There are many unique findings this year, such as 86% of U.S. households are reachable via CTV open programmatic advertising. The report also includes analysis on key trends, including: CTV ad spend trends by global region Ad fraud in CTV Household reach via […]

Nielsen Unveils New Cookieless Media Measurement

Nielsen announced this week its approach to eliminate its reliance on digital identifiers and ensure that advertisers and publishers can continue to measure confidently in a dynamic, privacy-first media environment. With its new approach to measuring authenticated and unauthenticated web traffic, Nielsen will become the leading platform to validate first-party server data with real consumer […]

GumGum Announces $75M investment from Goldman Sachs Growth

Partner Member GumGum, a global contextual advertising technology company, today announced a $75 million investment by Goldman Sachs Growth to accelerate the growth of its sophisticated contextual intelligence advertising product suite.  

Media Planning & Buying Awards

As a service to members, the Media, Tech and Data team has compiled the following list of media planning and buying awards: Festival of Media’s Global Awards Out-of-Home Advertising Association of America’s OOH Media Plan Awards The Drum’s annual Marketing Awards MediaPost’s OMMA Awards and Creative Media Awards Adweek’s Media Plan of the Year Awards […]

The 4A’s Future of Programmatic and Automation Think Tank Virtual Event

The 4A’s Future of Programmatic and Automation Think Tank webinar is now available on-demand. The session provides a closer look and deeper discussion around two critical issues facing the industry today: Workflow Automation and Identity Management. VIEW WEBINAR HERE   Moving to Simplicity and High Value: A Call to Action for Workflow Automation and People […]