Season 3, Episode 21: Where’s the fraud line in programmatic advertising? (with Chris Kane)
Jul 16, 2024
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Chris Kane, President of Jounce Media, discusses the state of the programmatic advertising market. Topics include cookie deprecation, OEMs in CTV apps, and the decline of made-for-advertising supply. The podcast highlights challenges in digital advertising, ethical considerations, and the impact of IDFA deprecation on hyper casual game advertising.
Understanding the impact of cookie deprecation in Chrome is crucial for web publishers.
Practical experience is essential to comprehend money flow dynamics in digital advertising.
The programmatic landscape is shifting towards audience gatekeepers and signal fidelity for actionable insights.
Deep dives
Rockerbox: Navigating the Marketing Maze
Rockerbox offers a guiding hand in the intricate realm of omnichannel marketing by enabling brands to pinpoint the effectiveness of their marketing efforts. With notable partnerships with brands like Weight Watchers and Nutraful, Rockerbox provides insights into campaign performance across various digital and offline channels. By eliminating the guesswork in marketing strategies, Rockerbox empowers smarter investment decisions.
Jounce Media's Specialized Research
Jounce Media, led by Chris Kane, specializes in analyzing how money flows from programmatic bidding systems to publishers. With a focus on web, mobile app, and CTV supply, Jounce Media utilizes diverse data sources to track auction availability and bids globally. By updating a core data asset daily and generating research reports and data feeds, Jounce Media offers valuable insights for publishers and ad tech practitioners.
Understanding Programmatic Mechanics
Chris Kane highlights the critical importance of hands-on experience in digital advertising to grasp the complexities of money movement within the industry. Lack of direct involvement in trading roles can lead to misconceptions about auction mechanics, emphasizing the significance of practical experience to comprehend the dynamics of digital advertising transactions.
State of the Open Internet Trends
In Jounce Media's 'The State of the Open Internet' report, four key trends shape the programmatic landscape: audience gatekeepers, demand concentration, bid stream congestion, and signal fidelity. The report underscores the control exerted by a limited number of companies over consumer attention and media spend, fueling increased demand for actionable insights in navigating the evolving landscape of online advertising.
Challenges Faced by Web Publishers
Web publishers navigate the evolving digital advertising landscape amidst challenges of cookie deprecation and the transition to alternative identifiers. As the industry experiments with solutions like UID2 and probabilistic identity signals, web publishers grapple with the growing importance of contextual targeting and the implications of TV OEMs claiming ad rights in CTV apps on their platforms.
In this episode of the Mobile Dev Memo podcast, I speak with Chris Kane, the President of Jounce Media, a research agency that covers the programmatic advertising ecosystem. Chris and I discuss the state of the programmatic advertising market. Among other things, we cover:
The current state of the open programmatic web;
What caused the rapid decline of made-for-advertising (MFA) supply;
How the largest premium web publishers will adapt to cookie deprecation in Chrome;
Whether cookies will ultimately be deprecated in Chrome;
Why cookie deprecation in Safari provides little clarifying guidance on the impact of cookie deprecation in Chrome;
The dynamics behind OEMs claiming ad rights within CTV apps.
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