Tag Archives: digital media

You’re Probably Laundering Oligarch Bucks

Posted on Monday, 16 December 2019 9:42 am by markpilip

It seems the ad fraud perpetrated by the adtech industry on advertisers (by design) might help some other folks out. Like Russian oligarchs with their stolen loot. It is way easier to setup advertising networks to launder one’s stolen dollars … Continue reading →

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Ads on blogs

Posted on Monday, 26 November 2018 9:24 am by markpilip

I just had a chance to check my blog. Here’s the type of quality ad that gets served on blogs like mine. Do you know if the creative is automatically generated by some brilliant AI? Or have you ever really … Continue reading →

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2.8 billion years of evolution, down the drain

Posted on Tuesday, 23 October 2018 8:40 am by markpilip

Someday, as expressed in this article by Shelly Palmer, AI and technology will be so good it will be impossible to tell truth from fakes. In other words, we won’t be able to trust our eyes and ears any more. … Continue reading →

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Zipf: A Counter to Programmatic Nonsense

Posted on Tuesday, 26 December 2017 9:07 am by markpilip

One of the arguments in favor of using programmatic buying is “variety.” As in, there’s so many websites available that there’s no efficient way to purchase on that number of sites. Because you can’t do that many direct deals, you … Continue reading →

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ABD (Always Be De-Averaging), ads.txt Edition

Posted on Wednesday, 1 November 2017 9:04 am by markpilip

Now that ads.txt is getting traction, with about 44% (and growing) of the top 10,000 domains using it, you’ve got some homework in your future. Here’s the assignment: Pull together your campaign data at the source (e.g. somedomain.com) and “source/source” … Continue reading →

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How Many Tracking Pixels to Screw in a Light Bulb?

Posted on Friday, 4 August 2017 11:59 am by markpilip

I turned on WordPress’s WordAds on this blog a couple of days ago. It takes a couple of days for the ad tech ecosystem to smell the fresh blood, but as of this morning, there are 66 tracking pixels firing … Continue reading →

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Digital Media: As Memorable as Kenny G?

Posted on Monday, 17 July 2017 9:07 am by markpilip

The smooth jazz radio format wasn’t as popular as thought. When Arbitron changed from paper diaries to portable people meters (PPM) about ten years ago, broadcasters learned that people didn’t do what the paper diaries said they did. With good … Continue reading →

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Nobody’s Talking About This ads.txt Problem

Posted on Monday, 10 July 2017 9:16 am by markpilip

As a media buyer, I find myself scratching my head about the IAB’s ads.txt initiative. It’s a good thing, of course. Knowing that somebody selling advertising inventory to you is actually authorized to sell that impression to you is important. … Continue reading →

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Working with ad exchanges? Do these things. Continue reading →

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AdTech Beware: The Rise of the Sophisticated Buyer

Posted on Tuesday, 18 April 2017 7:30 am by markpilip

The sophisticated advertising buyer will be the death of ad tech. Using ad tech by itself doesn’t make you a sophisticated buyer. Continue reading →

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