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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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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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Satisficing 

A term coined by economist Herbert Simon in 1957, combining the words satisfy and suffice to describe a decision-making process in which an individual makes a choice that is satisfactory rather than optimal. Widely used in many disciplines including computer science, behavioral science, philosophy, and economic research in decision-making, game theory, optimization and utility management. …

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What Is Satisficing and Why Is It Important?

Description Why settle for satisfactory when optimal is within reach? In this episode, Stephen Johnston talks about the theory of satisficing, which is explained by cognitive heuristic, behavioral science, and neuropsychology, and the role it plays in the programmatic advertising ecosystem.  Stephen is fanatical about using technology to move beyond “good enough” by utilizing machine …

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