Author: Michael Sweeney

May 9, 2019 by Maciej Zawadziński, Michael Sweeney

Transparency, choice, and control over personalized digital advertising — this is what Google Chrome’s new privacy features aim to address. Rumours had been circulating the AdTech industry for sometime, but on May 7th, 2019, at the Google I/O conference they were finally laid to rest when Google announced that they would introduce a set of […]

May 8, 2019 by Michal Wlosik, Michael Sweeney

Everyone who works in online advertising – from advertisers and agency folks to developers and publishers – has no doubt heard the concept of a walled garden. The term gets tossed around in AdTech and MarTech quite a bit, but its roots reach far beyond online advertising. We like to think the internet is an […]

May 3, 2019 by Michael Sweeney

Every Friday we present you a curated list of top AdTech stories in a condensed, easily-digestible format. The goal is simple: maximum knowledge at minimum reading. All you need is five minutes of spare time and a cup of good coffee. Here’s this week’s portion of interesting industry news: Google’s Move To First-Price Auctions Will […]

May 1, 2019 by Michael Sweeney

“One of the main reasons why personalization works is because humans like to hear things that we recognize and that feel familiar, such as our location, time or weather.” When radio moved from analog to digital, it opened a whole new world of opportunities. For the latest edition of Insider’s View: AdTech & MarTech Q&A, […]

April 17, 2019 by Michael Sweeney

Ad fraud, the GDPR, and ITP are not the only problems AdTech companies must tackle today. Many are struggling with problems associated with their main offering – their technology. Which Problems Are You Currently Facing? If you’re like most AdTech companies, you’re likely facing these technological challenges: Too many client requests and not enough time […]

March 20, 2019 by Michal Wlosik, Michael Sweeney, Maciej Zawadziński

The European Union’s General Data-Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been in force for almost a year, but in spite of numerous publications in the media there is still a lot of misinformation and confusion around it. In our new webinar, we guide through the key concepts of GDPR, discuss what the regulation means for AdTech companies, […]

March 15, 2019 by Maciej Zawadziński, Michael Sweeney

When advertising moved online from the print world back in the late 1990s, the biggest opportunity for advertisers was the ability to reach people on an individual basis. They no longer had to rely solely on contextual targeting – advertisers could now create audiences based on interests, behavior, and location, and show ads to members […]

February 27, 2019 by Michael Sweeney

Demand-side platforms (DSPs) are one of the main tools used by advertisers to run online media campaigns. On the outside, they seem like a platform that’s used to simply buy ad space from publishers, but they are actually comprised of many different components that work behind the scenes, each playing a key role in the […]

January 7, 2019 by Michael Sweeney

It’s that time again when we start seeing articles featuring AdTech predictions for the upcoming new year. Instead of presenting you with another run-of-the-mill post about what we think will happen in AdTech in 2019, however, we’re going to look at what the data tells us. We’ve analyzed a number of AdTech-related topics that are […]

November 2, 2018 by Michal Wlosik, Michael Sweeney

Cookies remember website configuration (e.g. language preferences), login details, and products added to the shopping cart, even after a user leaves the site, but because cookie files are widely used to collect certain pieces of information, they can also be used to carry out advertising processes like behavioral profiling and retargeting. Understanding the role of […]