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How Google and Apple Are Using ‘Privacy’ to Kill Ad Tech

Contently

Unlike Apple, which makes the majority of its revenue from hardware, Google is—at its core—an ad tech company. Around 90 percent of its 2015 revenues came from selling advertising across its various ad tech products such as DoubleClick and AdWords. On the surface, that’s surprising.

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Media Buying 101: What It Is and How It Works [+15 Platforms to Use]

Hubspot

For instance, let's say a health-focused vegan dessert company wants to run an ad campaign next quarter and they want to target health-conscious, vegan consumers. Using the same vegan dessert company, let's say they launched an ad campaign through Google's ad network. Amazon DSP. Google Display & Video 360.

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Digital Marketing’s Massive Measurement Lies

Digital B2B Marketing

The problem starts when you begin measuring your programs based on the companies or individuals you reached and what they did. The top 25 includes google, hotmail, facebook login, yahoo, ebay, yahoo mail, craigslist, aol, gmail, and amazon. I still remember when DoubleClick first rolled out view-through reporting.

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Inside The Washington Post’s Quest to Fix Ad Tech

Contently

Why would Bezos, the founder of Amazon and one of the wealthiest people in the world, invest in the volatile news business? Software has been a central part of that transition, perhaps more so at The Washington Post than at any other news company—even digital-first publishers like Vox Media and BuzzFeed. Towards a SaaS model.

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The dashboard has finally been perfected

Biznology

Google Doubleclick for Publishers. LinkedIn Company. What I liked about Google Gadgets is that there were both lots of gadgets you could just install that added a lot of value but the framework for creating your own was also pretty simple for any developer. Same thing goes for Cyfe. Google Analytics. Google Analytics (Real Time).

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Who’s Afraid of Native Ads?

Content Standard

Most companies aren’t interesting enough by nature and will never have the desire to coordinate Red-Bull-style space jumps or develop new technology like hoverboards by Lexus. As a result, even moderately cool companies like Netflix have to pay to play in the modern PR environment.

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Pressure

Content Standard

TV companies have seen the early signs of transformation taking place in how people discover, consume, and share information. This, in turn, opened the door for the rise of streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Instant Video, etc, and consumer demand for these platforms skyrocketed. Content marketers just followed their lead.