The Clearcode Blog

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.

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.

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.”

April 26, 2019 by Michal Wlosik

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.

April 26, 2019 by Michal Wlosik

With the rise of various self-service programmatic ad-buying platforms, brands have become increasingly independent of agencies and their managed services. Today, most online (and some offline) media purchases can be made in-house, at a lower cost, and with greater transparency and control over the purchased media.

April 24, 2019 by Michal Wlosik

The online advertising industry has faced various challenges in recent years – regulations like the GDPR, industry-wide problems like banner burn and banner blindness, as well as the increasing unreliability of cookies due to ad-blocking software and browser mechanisms like Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP). Despite these issues, targeting users based on their behavior is still one of the most popular ways to reach a desired audience.

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.

April 17, 2019 by Michal Wlosik

Understanding the concept of header bidding is central to understanding how programmatic ad buying works. The process originally emerged as a novel solution to remedy the inefficiency, and Google’s preference, of its own ad exchange (AdX), during the waterfall ad-buying process.

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, and what responsibilities it imposes on data controllers and processors.

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.