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TAG | July 30, 2020

The digital advertising industry's two leading anti-fraud and brand safety organizations, the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) and Joint Industry Committee for Web Standards (JICWEBS), today announced an agreement to merge. Mike Zaneis will serve as CEO for the combined organization – which will carry the TAG name – while JICWEBS's Jules Kendrick will take the new role of Managing Director of UK and Europe. The merger will be completed in early September 2020.JICW...

floridapolitics | January 27, 2020

Proposed legislation that would allow transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft to begin placing digital advertising boards on top of vehicles is slated for its first committee hearing this week. A similar bill in the Senate (SB 1352) heads to its first committee Monday. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee will hear Rep. Bob Rommel‘s bill Tuesday at noon. While the bill would affect companies like Uber and Lyft by allowing them to incorporate advertising into...

digiday | March 23, 2020

As advertisers search for more transparency into their programmatic buys, they’re demanding more data from ad tech vendors. One holdout in those negotiations is Google. The search giant’s dominance in advertising technology has long given advertisers a cause for concern. Now, some of those advertisers are using their influence over other ad tech vendors to mitigate the risk. The head of display at a U.S. based retailer recently decided they would not buy ads from the world’s la...

techcrunch | April 15, 2020

At a Glance: YouTube launches a free, DIY tool for businesses in need of short video ads. To gain access to the tool, the business will need only a Google Account that can be used to log into Google&rsq...