Bill Hess discusses how to place ad content on your site that is welcomed, not blocked. He believes website owners can protect their sites against ad-blockers by taking more care, claiming visitors are annoyed by irrelevant ads, not all ads. So, be aware of the difference, get to know your audience and tailor the ad content accordingly in order to boost your sales.
Some industry commentators have called time on the current ad tech ecosystem for in-app advertising, citing GDPR – the incoming data protection regulation – as its death knell. But Rodric Bark sees this as a GDPR revolution – an opportunity for the industry rather than a threat, delivering data protection and improving targeting. Here’s how:
Global spending on native ads is predicted to hit $85.5bn a year within the next two years; it’s a format that is deemed to offer a more appealing and engaging user experience and is thus rapidly growing in popularity among marketers and brands – likely to overtake banner ads as the field leader in display advertising. Here’s a glimpse into tomorrow’s digital ad world and what the more creative, relevant and editorially compelling native advertising 2020 could add up to.
What’s the ads viewability situation across Europe and what can marketers do to improve it – to make their ads the ‘stickiest’? How can they optimise their online ad campaigns? Anant Joshi examines in detail what the latest Meetrics statistics reveal.