One of the most significant advantages of contextual targeting as a cornerstone of your advertising strategy is the ability to build a more compelling and complete story that resonates with your audience. The challenges of finance marketing With the finance industry slowly growing its digital ad spend, marketers are looking for ways to stand out from competitors and adopt tools, tactics, and systems that are measurable so they can analyze and improve results. In addition to regulatory compliance requirements, finance marketers face some challenges in reaching their audience with a compelling message. There are several reasons for this: Many consumers aren’t knowledgeable about financial products. Content about financial products and services tends to use complex language. The rocky trust ...

One of the most effective ways marketers have to connect with their audience is storytelling. This can be challenging when it comes to advertising because the timeframe for attracting attention, garnering interest, and inspiring action is mere seconds. But what if the content alongside your ad was part of the story? Ads shouldn’t be an island It’s not uncommon for ads to show up beside content that has no particular relevance to the ad. I tested this out by looking at what ads would run next to an article with advice on staying cool at home during a heatwave. None of the ads were precisely relevant, but they were all humorous in their own way given the context – here’s a sample of what I saw ads for: Face masks – so important when working from home, Pods – for a quieter, happier place in ...

In the world of digital advertising, during times of crisis, there’s a predictable pattern where advertisers go into protection mode to preserve brand safety. The response is understandable, especially given the very real human concerns associated with the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. You want to be sensitive to what’s happening, which usually involves a significant shift or reduction in advertising. Recently, our partner MediaMath invited Alex White, COO of Peer39, to have a conversation about the challenges advertisers are facing right now in the face of an active global pandemic. Danny Sepulveda, SVP for Policy & Advocacy at MediaMath, hosted Alex as part of their Digital Dialogues webinar series. Together, Alex and Danny discussed the state of advertising and content ...

Peer39 and NewsGuard have teamed up to help. The internet has democratized publishing to the point where anyone can purchase a domain and spin up a website with no real oversight to what they’re publishing – and that ease extends to social media. In March 2018, MIT released the results of the largest ever study on fake news. The findings showed that on Twitter, the falsehoods made the rounds faster than authentic news stories.

Advertisers can buy News category inventory with knowledge that ads only appear on pages from trusted, legitimate news media NEW YORK, April 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — News content accounts for nearly one out of every five targetable ad impressions online, creating a clear opportunity for advertisers looking to reach engaged consumers. Yet for all of the legitimate content available, fake news remains a scourge on the internet, with legitimate-looking sites popping up to take advantage of programmatic buying automation while propagating misinformation.

The outbreak of coronavirus and its pandemic status have had an abrupt progression in the news. Since January, we’ve seen the topic evolve from regular updates on news about somewhere else in the world to become the overwhelmingly dominant story in every country. This massive growth in volume of coverage has created a backlash among advertisers who are responding by creating comprehensive block lists of terms related to the virus or, in more extreme cases, ceasing all ad spend on publishers. This kind of extreme reaction is meant to prevent the kind of damage to their brand’s reputation that can occur if their ads are served on pages alongside articles about the tragedy and economic impact of this global crisis. It’s understandable that advertisers are wary. Every brand seeks to be seen ...

By looking at data compiled over the last few years, studies have found that not only did transaction volume grow year over year for these two coveted days, but transaction value did as well. Experts predict that this year will be no different. Forecasts are coming in over $140 billion, with e-commerce sales growing from 14% to 18% – an increase to the 11.2% recorded in 2018. Shoppers are expected to spend close to $1,500 per household during this holiday season. With the surge in spend also comes the exponential uptick in digital traffic around content around these two very big days of the year. The chart below illustrates the traffic for Black Friday & Cyber Monday content (from 2017 to 2018), and traffic volume essentially doubled in 2018. We can anticipate that there will be a ...