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Posted from today’s session at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO Virtual 2020 event – “5 Things You Should Do Now To Get Ready for Our Post-Cookie World.” The below video reflects how Publishers and Brands can prepare themselves for upcoming changes with cookies and identity in the next 3 – 36 months. With everything going on in…

News on one of our clients, Nutrisystem & Tivity Health, posted in FoodBev Media Private equity firm Kainos Capital has agreed to acquire nutrition and weight management brand Nutrisystem from Tivity Health for $575 million. This purchase agreement will see Kainos Capital acquire Tivity Health’s full nutrition business, which includes the Nutrisystem and South Beach…

Matt Prohaska discusses how publishers can ‘Grow their own Identity Garden’ in the latest edition of AdExchanger’s The Sell Sider. “While Project Rearc and the new Partnership for Addressable Media are underway to collectively forge a path forward, there are quite a few areas that publishers and brands can focus on now to take more…

Regionally customized sessions will educate buyers and sellers on how to successfully transact programmatically NEW YORK, August 3, 2020– DPAA, the leading global trade marketing association connecting out-of-home media with the advertising community while moving OOH to digital, announced today it will hold live-via-Zoom training courses for North America and EMEA in August and September,…

Publishers, tech vendors, marketers and investors have been forced to adapt to a roller-coaster year caused by the coronavirus pandemic and racial inequality protests. In the process, their business needs have also changed, according to Matt Prohaska, who leads one of the industry’s most well-known programmatic consultancies. From his home in Fairfield, Conn., Matt explains…

The demise of third-party cookies and the regulatory might of California’s Consumer Privacy Act have both the buy- and sell-side rethinking how they reach consumers. To do that, brands and publishers need to make sense of the first-party data they have on their audiences, usually with the help of a customer data platform (CDP). Neustar,…

Today’s column is written by Ward Flock, global vice president, Magnify, at Prohaska Consulting. If you’re expecting to find yet another article about selling during a recession, feel free to browse elsewhere. Many sage sales consultants talk about promoting collaboration, planting seeds for the future or taking whatever you can get during these uncertain times. I get…

Last week, Apple and Google set aside their decade-long rivalry to unveil a contact-tracing initiative using Bluetooth technology on both of their devices to help combat the spread of COVID-19. In May, the tech giants will release an API to enable interoperability between Android and iOS operating systems, meaning third-party apps (such as those from…

The infrastructure is being put in place to monetize a portion of the $70 billion TV market. Beachfront Media, a video ad platform, has been working on connecting the programmatic pipes to set-top boxes’ video on demand (VOD) inventory. Now, the company has entered the market with Amobee as its first demand-side partner, buying set-top…

Today’s column is written by Scott Bender, partner and global head of client strategy at Prohaska Consulting. No question, it’s going to be a rough second (and likely third) quarter for the digital publisher community. Some estimates suggest Q2 will decline more than 30% across all publisher categories, with CPMs across the open and private non-guaranteed exchange…