As holiday shopping kicks off earlier this season, advertisers are feeling the pressure to find new ways to reach enthusiastic buyers. Cookies are no longer the foundation of digital advertising. Today’s top shopping and content channels—including connected TV (CTV), out-of-home (OOH), gaming, and audio—don’t use cookies at all, marking a major shift in…
As we hit the home stretch in the Presidential election and other federal and statewide races, digital advertising spend continues to flourish. But, candidates and their marketing teams may be fumbling on a key component of their playbook that could be the…
Seemingly, every week, a new retail company is entering the retail media space. The most recent one is a huge one: Costco. The company, which is known for its minimalistic marketing strategy, is finally joining its biggest…
To find a new revenue stream, Wal-Mart didn’t need to open a new store or work with a new distributor or sign a new supplier. All it needed to do was monetize its existing audience through advertising to the tune of $3.4 billion per year. That’s only slightly less than Barnes & Noble made in revenue all of 2022. Wal-Mart achieved that incremental revenue through the creation of a retail media network, which enables the companies that sell goods at Wal-Mart to pay to reach potential customers through…
The digital advertising industry has always evolved, and ad tech companies have always led innovation to help marketers reach and engage with consumers. Third-party cookie deprecation changes the core of our industry. We must embrace…
The future is here. As the clock strikes midnight on December 31, 2023, another clock gets set into motion: the beginning of the end of third-party cookies. Google’s long-debated cookie depreciation will begin in January incrementally and support for them will be gone by the end of the year. While anyone tracking this environment has…
Today, the majority of programmatic revenue runs on third-party cookies, leaving almost half of a publisher’s inventory under-monetized. Looking ahead to Google’s plan to phase out third-party cookies in 2023, the problem will only get worse. With over 40 registered ID Modules in Prebid and 80-plus IDs in-market to choose from, publishers have…
2021 has certainly been an action-packed year for the ad tech industry. Between Apple’s IDFA, Google’s announcement to extend the deprecation of the cookie, and M&A activity, we’ve all had to ebb and flow. Will 2022…
Last week we officially closed the New York 33Across office to employees. Since the onset of the pandemic, our team has displayed integrity and resiliency and has proven that they can work wherever there is…
Google’s delay of the 3rd party cookie created quite a fervor last week and have many trying to read between the lines behind the announcement. What it really did was…
The industry is reeling from the pending demise of the cookie. It’s been a central component to how the programmatic ecosystem functions – how it targets audiences, enables attribution, tracks…
Now that we ended the rollercoaster year of 2020, it’s time for publishers to brush the dirt off and take a hard look in the mirror and repeat: This is your year. It’s time to be in control. You’ve got your own first-party data which is worth its weight in gold, now you just need…
Like everything in 2020, Election Day will look a lot different than prior years. Due to the obstacles from COVID-19 and the importance of voting, 33Across is giving its employees the day off to exercise their civic duty. We do hope that for…
We’ve all had to take a huge pause in common everyday functions of life during this coronavirus pandemic: How we live and work. How our kids learn. How we connect with customers. How we stay safe and live together in isolation. All. The. Time. Pausing, catching a breath and taking time to reflect is always…
As prices rise on Facebook and Instagram, D2C brands are starting to look elsewhere, from Pinterest to Snap to TV — and even to billboard and print. But the best bang for their buck may be in…
Economic downturns are both cyclical and inevitable. Since getting my first advertising job in 1993, I’ve been through a few recessions. With the exception of Sept. 11, 2001, most are relatively easy to spot. It’s usually a perfect storm that builds…
Programmatic advertising has a quality control problem, but it’s probably not the way you think. We have an opportunity to deliver value for all parties involved — publishers, advertisers, platforms, and of course, the users — but it requires a shift in thinking that frankly, I’m not sure the…
We’re excited to announce the launch of AttentionX™, the first open exchange offering only viewable inventory and beyond, including high impact formats and attention-based ad products. Sadly, 50-70% of all inventory on exchanges today is…
There was no shortage of brilliant examples of the convergence of advertising and technology at this year’s Cannes Lions festival, including innovative applications of AI and VR. But more than 80% of digital advertising spend will be programmatic this year, according to eMarketer. So in that sense the divide between creative…
For years, the digital advertising industry settled into a predictable pattern. Let’s call it SBLR for short: Soul Searching, Big Speech (typically at the IAB or ANA annual meeting), Little Industry Action, Repeat. Not much progress was made toward cleaning-up programmatic advertising or even defining what “cleaning-up” actually meant….
Let’s agree that time is money. And with recent studies showing that the longer an ad is in view, the higher the performance, wouldn’t it stand to reason that as an…
