Nubai claims that if buyers don’t shell out for premium placements like on CNN and Fox News, Outbrain instead places their links on less-reputable sites that have been found to attract a high degree of sophisticated invalid traffic – aka bots.
TV measurement is reaching an inflection point. But with all the saturation, there’s at least one thing most competing measurement providers can agree on: the importance of independent accreditation.
Marketers aren’t all that wound up about Facebook’s recurring ad metric errors. Bugs happen, said Alok Gupta, data science manager at Airbnb, speaking at a measurement event hosted by Facebook on Wednesday. “You’re never going to build a perfect system immediately or ever,” Gupta said. “As long as the bugs or problems are identified quickly, […]
There have been several changes at Medialets in the three months since WPP snapped up the mobile ad platform. It’s got a new chief exec – COO Richy Glassberg took over as CEO from Eric Litman, who remains involved in the company as chairman – and it’s doubling down on its Media Rating Council (MRC) accreditations. Medialets, which received […]
Google’s offering in the ad viewability space has scored third-party accreditation from the Media Ratings Council. Google joins others who have wended through the MRC’s approval process – the respective viewability products from comScore, Double Verify and RealVu have been approved – so Google does not stand alone. But given its expansive relationship with marketers, […]
The Interactive Advertising Bureau, Media Ratings Council, and other associations recently completed a study of viewable impressions conducted with 17 advertisers across 12 agencies that encompassed roughly 3 billion impressions. The MRC aggregated and analyzed the data, and released a handful of nuggets publicly. Jessica Sanfilippo, Group Media Director with participating agency 360i, discussed some details of the […]
