OpenSincera is a bold step toward greater transparency in MarTech. This free API gives open access to inventory data across the web, signaling a shift toward more informed planning and smarter decision-making. But how far does this visibility really go – and what comes next for advertisers, publishers, and the open web?
You’ve heard the standard: 50% of an ad’s pixels, in view, for at least one continuous second. That’s the industry benchmark for viewability. It’s also the bare minimum. And it tells us very little about whether a user actually saw the ad – let alone engaged with it or remembered it.
In digital advertising, everyone gets paid when an ad is served. Doesn’t matter who saw it. Doesn’t matter if anyone saw it. If there’s an impression logged, someone gets a check. Except one player: the advertiser. And ironically, they’re the only ones with no real control over the system.
The days of vague attention metrics are officially over. The Media Rating Council (MRC) and The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) are finally teaming up to standardize attention measurement, marking a significant milestone in the publishing industry. At this stage accreditation guidelines are expected to roll out in early 2025, this is huge news for publishers, and it’s happening just in time.
As promised, here is the recording of Wednesday’s webinar on the future of viewability and how to get ready for the 2022 stricter standards.
Mastering ad viewability starts by understanding all the metrics associated with viewability.
This post will shed light on how viewability is measured, what the MRC guidelines state, and where things sometimes get tricky
Here’s a fun fact: your programmatic viewability could be doing a lot better and you know it. You’d love to squeeze in a little extra juice out of it, but with direct campaigns and the promise of at least 70% viewability hanging over your head, most of your time is spent optimizing […]
Five years ago, viewability became a baseline for all impression-based metrics for advertisers. Ever since, publishers’ accountability for their ad inventory is on the rise. At the most basic level, measuring viewability helps advertisers understand if each ad that was called for on a page […]
We’ve partnered with Dr. Augustine Fou, an ad fraud expert and thought leader in the advertising industry, to show why viewability and IVT are not enough when measuring impressions.
