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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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Radical Observability™

Observability requires insight into metrics, traces, and logs.Observability stems from control theory and is a measure of how well internal states of a system can be inferred from knowledge of its external outputs. If something is observable, then you can understand the internal state of the system from what you can see. In simple terms, …

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