We’re back with our News Highlights features after a little hiatus. Here are some of the more interesting stories we came across this week.
Tags: ad blocking
3 Ad Blocking Strategies Publishers Are Testing
As part of my expanded “Ad Blocker Series” of articles, I wrote a case study into the 3 ad blocking strategies publishers are testing. This case study has been published on Business2Community as “A Case Study In Industry Responses To Ad Blocking” and I encourage you to read it, especially if you haven’t finished reading the Ad Blocker Series yet. Here is a preview:
Ad Blocker Strategies – A New Hope For Publishers
This is the final part of our “Ad Blocker Strategies” series of articles. In this part, we will explore what consumers want and why they have adopted ad blockers with such enthusiasm? You can find the first and second parts of our series here and here.
Ad Blocker Strategies – Publishers Strike Back
This is the second part in our “Ad Blocker Strategies” series of articles. In this part, we review the next two strategies publishers have adopted and the broader industry response to ad blocking. You can find the first part here and the third part here.
Ad Blocker Strategies – Ad Blockers Awaken
The ad blocking phenomenon has caused quite an upheaval in the publishing industry. With so much discussion and debate about ad blocking and its impact on the industry, we think its important to focus on the key issues so we spent some time exploring the origins of the phenomenon, how the industry is responding to it and what is driving it. The result is our in depth analysis in three parts.
Ads Designed With Empathy To End The Ad Blocker War
Consumers are at war with brands and publishers. Their weapons are content blockers (the new term for “ad blockers”) and their virtually silent resistance is hurting both brands and publishers so much they are scrambling to find ways to make the pain stop. Ad revenue is falling dramatically and a significant source of the drop is the group once heralded as particularly lucrative: Millennials.
The Dark Side Of Ad Tracking And What To Do About It
Programmatic advertising offers publishers the opportunity to present more relevant ads to users from a wider variety of advertisers who are paired with publishers through the elements of ad exchanges. The flipside is that publishers’ websites have to track users for their many advertisers and this has an impact on site load times and usability.