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By focusing on privacy-first strategies in conjunction with contextual advertising, advertisers can build trust with consumers while still achieving their objectives.
Some publishers are seeing more referral traffic from Bluesky than from Threads already. But both platforms are still “small potatoes” when it comes to referring traffic to their sites.
As brands build their performance marketing mix on the open web specifically, they are prioritizing connected TV and OTT as their leading channels, along with contextual targeting as their primary strategy.
Screenvision Media and Spotlight Cinema Networks have formed the Cinema Programmatic Alliance, which aims to make their inventory available to advertisers and agencies placing dollars through programmatic firms.
In August, Comscore released data indicating that Overwolf had become the fourth-most-visited gaming property in the United States, surpassing the platforms of competitors such as Activision Blizzard and Epic Games.