Exploring the world of digital advertising

Joined October 2020
In the words of Daft Punk: Our work is never over. @Ryanbarwick shall we?
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Six months later, Yahoo (appears to be) buying traffic from shady sources @deepsee_io
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🚨Pirate traffic alert🧵🚨 Sharing with you all today a list of 19 sites used to launder traffic for lectormanga[.]com (11.2M estimated monthly visits, per Similar Web) & lectortmo[.]com (over 50M monthly visits estimated!!) Example video: youtu.be/arneqj1FIfk
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AdalyticsHQ retweeted
Reports by PWC and @AdalyticsHQ found that only 50% of the money spent by advertisers ended up with publishers with the rest going to ad-tech fees. In some cases, as high as 98% of the advertising spend was on these ad-tech fees. trends.spiny.ai/ad-tech-fees…
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"The study found that for half of ad impressions, middlemen’s fees range from 22% to 45%, with an average of 35%." Great read from @catherineperlo1 featuring detailed research from @AdalyticsHQ. adweek.com/programmatic/anot…
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Are you a publisher, media agency, or brand? Want to better understand your programmatic ad supply chains by receiving a log file audit? Get in touch. adalytics.io/blog/adtech-sup…
Continuing this series to better inform antitrust, privacy, internet policy advocates re: digital ads biz. Pt 2 shows how ad platforms confuse/rip off small biz advertisers w/confusing defaults. What Antitrust Gets Wrong About Digital Advertising Pt. 2 bit.ly/37GaMot
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Are luxury brands serving their ads to the intended audience? @LuxuryDaily reports on an Adalytics pilot study luxurydaily.com/adalytics-ad…
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How much does it cost for brands such as Nike, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson to buy a programmatic display ad? How much are they paying to publishers such as WSJ, NYT, or a Vietnamese cooking blog run by a mom of two? adalytics.io/blog/cpm-bid-da…
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AdalyticsHQ retweeted
Did you see the Wrapper Newsletter this week? 1/ Targeted Ads Miss the Mark, Study Says 2/ CA AG Says GPC Must Be Honored By All 3/ Big Brands Acquiring Ad Tech at Lightning Speed 4/ IBM Watson Wants to Use AI to Uncover and Reduce Bias in Advertising admonsters.com/eletters/does…
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I ran a crowd-sourced pilot study of 128,000 digital ads from over 5,000 brands and here are my top 5 takeaways. A few marketers are highly efficient at targeting the right audience, but others need to double check where they're sourcing their data from. adalytics.io/blog/verifying-…
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If advertisers are paying for 3rd party audience segments, they should make sure their data providers are sourcing the data in an ethical, informed-consent manner. This not only helps protect them against regulatory action, but would yield higher quality data segments.
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If you're a data-driven marketer looking to understand if you're reaching your intended audience, DM me. I'd love to be able to pay the volunteers for their participation. With a larger audience cohort & access to your log-level ad data, we can do interesting larger-scale audits
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