Interviews, insight & analysis on digital media & marketing

Programmatic

Get your bucket and spade – it’s time to play in the Sandbox

Several years after the initial announcements that Chrome would remove 3rd party cookies, depreciation is approaching. As we start 2024 it would be remiss of me not to encourage everyone to lean into all the identity and measurement solutions in the market, including testing Privacy Sandbox

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Programmatic

Misaligned objectives or market functioning as intended?

This year will see continued progress in terms of supply path optimisation, and reduction in partners to drive simpler / cleaner paths between demand and supply. But it also prompts the question – do misaligned objectives hold the industry back from our lofty goals? 

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Advertising

In Defence of SSPs

I feel compelled to come to the defence of supply-side platforms (SSPs), an often much-maligned part of the industry, tarnished by the phrase the ad tech tax, suggesting that costs are being taken out without value being provided. Sometimes it feels like there is a view of exchanges as dumb pipes, or margin stealers.

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