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For a glimpse into just how precise Facebook ad targeting is getting, look to Washington, D.C. Specifically look to 1849 C Street, N.W., a few blocks from the White House, where you’ll find the headquarters for the Department of the Interior, the federal agency tasked with managing national parks, federal land and natural resources. Alaska…
Publishers, especially B2B publishers, find that reaching readers via the new digital platforms is too much of a crapshoot to be a sustainable business model for them to investment in There is no shortage of digital distribution platforms that want content from publishers. Whether it is Facebook’s Instant Articles or Apple News, Flipboard or the digital…
Last week, Facebook opened its Instant Articles format to all publishers. Using Instant Articles, they can now show readers using Facebook mobile a fast-loading version of their posts, while still also displaying some of their ads and measuring pageviews. Previously, Instant Articles was only available to a select number of official publisher partners. “Only now Instant…
The mobile web is getting faster thanks to Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages scheme, and it’s about to get faster still. AMP articles now appears within Google News, giving media companies another high-traffic channel for speedier content delivery. But publisher complaints about slow loading ads have yet to be resolved. Legacy publishers like The Washington Post, The New York Times…
By almost any measure, Scott Scherr makes a lot of money. As chief executive officer of Ultimate Software Group Inc., Scherr’s pay tripled to $38.3 million last year, a filing showed this month. That’s far higher than his rivals and more than the company earned itself. It even tops the compensation of Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, who…
AD UNIT 1 /AD UNIT 1 This morning in Palm Desert, Calif., the IAB is kicking off its annual leadership conference, an event which epitomizes its irrelevance to consumers. For those keeping score, in 2015 ad tech’s greatest existential challenge took form: the tremendous surge of ad blocking into mainstream consciousness. The IAB’s response to…
Adblock PlusBen Williams, operations and communications manager at Adblock Plus.Popular ad blocker Adblock Plus claims that it was uninvited from the US Interactive Advertising Bureau’s big conference. The IAB represents the biggest names in the digital-advertising industry: Google, Facebook, Twitter, online publishers, and ad-tech companies. Each year it holds its annual leadership meeting in Palm Desert,…
Adblock PlusBen Williams, operations and communications manager at AdBlock Plus.President and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Randall Rothenberg used the opening keynote speech at the IAB summit to accuse Adblock Plus of being an “unethical, immoral, mendacious coven of techie wannabes” and an “old-fashioned extortion racket.” The vitriol came after Adblock Plus complained…
AD UNIT 1 /AD UNIT 1 I recently watched Adam McKay’s Oscar-winning film “The Big Short.” For those who are unfamiliar with the film, “Four denizens in the world of high-finance predict the credit and housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s, and decide to take on the big banks for their greed and lack of…
noteaser In July 2015 I suggested that the average web page weight would equal that of the Doom install image in about 7 months time. In about 7 months average web page size will be same as Doom install image. Well done us! Onwards & upwards! pic.twitter.com/xtSAtZjPGl — ronan cremin (@xbs) July 30, 2015 Well,…