Holiday shoppers broke another record with 200.4 million consumers shopping from Thanksgiving Day to Cyber Monday, up more than 18 million year-over-year. After a soft start to 2023 due to economic concerns and low consumer confidence, many analysts lowered their…
For years we have known a cookieless future awaits. And yet! Few seem prepared for this inevitability. Throughout history, there have been revolutionary changes that have remade industries and created powerhouses of those companies that took a leap to prepare for the future. IBM, was early to identify the personal computer revolution. Netflix created the modern streaming industry while it was an extremely successful DVD supplier. And for as many industry champions, there were…
Despite concerns of a looming recession and a potential drop in ad spend in the first half of 2023, Google’s decision to get rid of third-party cookies in 2024 set the stage for an urgent scramble toward cookie alternative solutions in Q3 2023. As a result, we saw an increase in cookie alternative spending across…
There are approximately two million electric vehicles on the road in the US today, which account for less than 1% of the 250 million vehicles sold in the US. And, yet, it’s increasingly difficult to pass…
In 33Across’ Q2 Programmatic Cookie Alternative Trends Report (vol. 4), we analyzed programmatic transactions on the 33Across exchange to gain insight into cookie alternative versus third-party cookie buying trends for buyers and sellers. Retailers have long benefited from programmatic advertising’s ability to activate…
After a challenging Q4 and the usual drop in revenue that the industry sees during the first quarter of the year, we were pleased to see continued growth in cookie alternative investment. During a time when marketers are seeking efficiency while trying to reach new audiences, unaddressable inventory checks many of these…
With record-breaking growth in 2021 and hitting a revenue goal of $200bn in early 2022, digital advertising’s year-over-year growth has sharply declined, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) and PwC’s latest annual report. The report highlights how…
Q4 2022 was challenging compared to prior years due to low consumer spending caused by inflation. Despite this, cookie alternative inventory gave advertisers greater efficiency and publishers increased incremental revenue. The 33Across Programmatic Cookie Alternative Trends Report highlights buy-side and sell-side …
The Cyber Five (the period between Thanksgiving Day to Cyber Monday) is the most anticipated time for retailers as an influx of gift-givers cash in on the best deals of the year. With a record 196.7 million shoppers, this Cyber Weekend was especially interesting to …
Since approximately 80% of brand spend targets half of a publisher’s supply, the unaddressable market is a huge opportunity for publishers looking to monetize every user. In short, publishers should have two different strategies for their…
Black Friday and Cyber Week are officially here – both of which bring some of the biggest retail deals of the year. Retailers have been diligently planning for these large-scale events, but may be left wondering what role the economy and the aftermath…
In the recently produced 33Across Programmatic Cookieless Trends Report, we analyzed programmatic transactions on the 33Across exchange to gain insight into cookieless versus cookie trends for buyers and sellers during August and September 2022. From a demand perspective, our report highlights…
We produced the 33Across Programmatic Cookieless Trends Report in order to highlight cookieless trends across varying advertising industry verticals on the 33Across exchange from August – September, 2022. The report answers…
What are cookies and what do they do? Learn about the phase out of third-party cookies and what it means for SSPs, DSPs, and consumers going forward…
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…
For as long as people have browsed the Internet, advances in ad tech have made it easier for advertisers to reach their intended audience with ads. But that unfettered growth in targeting and data collection ultimately led to the point in time where privacy advocates and governments are clawing that capability back.
Facebook’s recent less-than-stellar earnings report can…
While the 2021 holidays will be much different than last year’s due to the COVID-19 vaccine, consumers will continue to shop online instead of going into stores. Last holiday season, online and…
Psst. The 2021 holiday season is already here. While the optimism we hoped for after vaccines became available has dissipated because of the Delta variant and lingering supply chain issues, retailers nonetheless expect another solid holiday season.
Both Bain and Deloitte predict…
Google’s recent reversal on its cookie ban — at least until 2023 — has provided marketers and publishers with a temporary reprieve by delaying the depreciation of 3P cookies on Chrome browsers. Previously, Google announced in March they would not create or allow alternate identifiers to…
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…
We previously covered 2020’s prolonged shopping season and the impact that COVID-19 will have on how consumers will shop. For our final part of our Cyber Week is Canceled series, we’re discussing how consumer lifestyle changes will affect shopping and what media buyers can do to capture consumer attention. Consumers have also taken up different…
It’s officially Q4 and the season finale of 2020 is here. In our first installment of our Cyber Week is Canceled series, we discussed how we should now think of the shopping season as Cyber Quarter since consumers will begin shopping much earlier. The National Retail Federation has even launched a…
2020 has been anything but normal and we will continue to brace ourselves for what’s ahead in Q4. In this three-part series, we will look at how COVID-19 will affect the overall holiday retail landscape, how earlier pandemic related supply chain issues will play a role in…
With a global pandemic well underway, gone are the “normal” holiday media tactics that retailers rely on during the most profitable time of the year. However, there are a few things to keep in mind. First- Don’t panic. We got you. The beauty of programmatic is that it’s the perfect…
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 we near the election, publishers and buyers should continue to be on heightened alert for dis-information and hate speech. Be sure to work with partners that take proactive steps to protect their brands and business. Recently, there were some questions about…
As one of the longest, if not the longest, tenured CEO of an ad tech start-up, Eric Wheeler’s tale of 33Across is filled with both challenges and triumph but there is one overarching theme: quality should be at the heart of everything you do….
In a recent survey from Digiday and Pubmatic, more than 40% of buyers said they worried that SPO would negatively impact their KPIs and more than 30% said they feared losing access to unique inventory. In our experience, these fears are not completely unfounded. Luckily, the industry is beginning to move beyond…
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…
You don’t have to work in ad tech (or even advertising at all) to know that there’s a growing sense of distrust around how people’s personal information is being…
Last year Memorial Day was slated to be the second largest retail season after the Q4 Holiday Season. With an estimated $36 Billion in spend, Memorial Day has become more than just …
One question dominated conversations among publishers and platforms — along with a new crop of challenger or “disruptor” brands — at this year’s IAB ALM: How can we as an industry win back consumer trust…
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…
The Interactive Advertising Bureau has just gone on the record in favor of Federal privacy regulations, and with the looming ePrivacy Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act, it’s clear that scrutiny around data usage and privacy…
Throughout this year, we’ve seen a growing chorus of marketers demand increased transparency, quality, and attention for their programmatic advertising investment. Industry initiatives like Ads.txt and the MRC’s viewability standard have helped…
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…
Programmatic “in-housing” — or the trend of marketers managing their programmatic media buying directly — remains one of the industry’s hottest topics. We see this reflected in a recent…
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…
On Friday, May 25th, the General Data Protection legislation (GDPR) will go into effect for all countries in the European Economic Area (EEA). The GDPR unifies consumer data privacy regulation across the EEA and sets strict standards surrounding the use and disclosure of personal data…
Summer’s unofficial start is upon us. Before you fire up the grill or hit the beach, make sure you have the right approach to add some extra sizzle to your holiday campaigns…
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…
Google announced that as of February 15th, 2018, Chrome will stop showing ads that don’t meet certain standards for quality…
Earlier this week during Interactive Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) annual conference, attendees including myself were called on to provide a better experience across the entire ad tech ecosystem…
How many times have you had a programmatic campaign not go exactly as planned?…
Since its debut in the programmatic stratosphere, private marketplaces (PMP) have been all the craze. Allowing publishers more control over their inventory and giving buyers the option to purchase premium…
Point-of-care patient education media company AccentHeathrecently announced that they acquired PageScience, a programmatic advertising and targeting company for pharmaceutical marketers…
All eyes will soon be on Rio. For over two weeks, the 2016 Summer Olympics will dominate not only television but the digital landscape as well…
It was hard not to miss Mary Meeker’s latest Internet Trends Report, especially the section on economic growth slowing. On the one hand, the report did call out that U.S. internet advertising growth is accelerating…
