Stephen Johnston

A Well-Lit Digital Advertising Ecosystem Needs Radical Observability, Not Just Transparency and Fraud Detection

Last week Gannett Co. responded to reports that they mistakenly passed inaccurate values in their header bidding auctions, reminding us that fraud detection and transparency don’t go far enough to protect publishers and advertisers against errors. Fraud detection and identifying errors are different processes, and not everything that is bad in digital advertising is necessarily …

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Demise of Cookies in Digital Advertising

Description The fast-approaching cookie crackdown (third-party cookies, 3PCs) has many companies fearing the future state of digital advertising. But for Stephen, it’s seen as much more of an opportunity.  As the first fully observable programmatic advertising platform, the removal of third-party cookies plays right into the vision PubWise has been dreaming of.  This week we …

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Radical Observability in Digital Advertising

Description While transparency and observability are often used synonymously, the ability to control and take action is what sets them apart. Transparency may inform you when something occurs, observability helps you understand why it occurred and what you can do to change the outcome. There is a programmatic ecosystem paradigm shift underway, driven by machine …

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Cookie Apocalypse

The Cookie Apocalypse Is A Data Opportunity For Publishers

Here’s a bit of good news for publishers: the sky isn’t falling, at least not anytime soon. Yes, third-party identifiers may one day become a thing of the past, but fear and stagnation during a pivotal time of industry change is unproductive.  Third-party cookie alternatives Third-party cookies have long been a staple of ad targeting, …

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