The New SEO: Optimizing For Semantic Search

December 30, 2018

Previously, SEO was all about creating meta tags and finding places for keywords within content and repeating the same target keyword(s) over and over again. For example, a page about vacuum cleaners would benefit from the term ‘vacuum cleaners’ woven throughout the content multiple times. This once resulted in higher rankings, but also led to black-hat SEO practices, such as hiding keywords in the same color as the background. Google quickly came to realize that pages which were ranking highly in result of these strategies were not necessarily the most accurate, helpful and well-rounded pages respective to a search.

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FourthWall Media is a pioneer at the intersection of technology, media, and data. We use our proprietary software to collect and process hundreds of millions of second-by-second viewing events every day, adding to our 5 years of historic data from millions of homes and nearly 10 million set top boxes sourced from more than a dozen distribution partners.

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Getting smart about ad waste

whitePaper | July 13, 2023

For marketers, agencies and even CFOs, the answer to the first question is very likely “No.” The answer to the next two questions should, of course, be an emphatic “Yes.” A new study undertaken by InMarket, in cooperation with the CMO Council, provides real insights into the answers to these questions. It uncovers massive disparities in ad waste and optimization opportunities among advertisers in similar consumer categories. And it shows that rigorous, always-on use of attribution is a major factor in optimizing campaigns to gain significantly higher lift in incremental visits and sales from media spend.

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The Future of Advertising is AI

whitePaper | October 10, 2022

AI is evolving from a nice-to-have capability, to an everyday staple, especially in advertising. Forms of AI handle your bidding, targeting, optimizations and sometimes even your creative output. AI will be the baseline for advertising innovation over the next few years, are you ready?

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The Marketer’s Identity Crisis

whitePaper | December 1, 2021

In an increasingly cookie-less world, understanding a consumer’s complete digital footprint is difficult enough; delivering relevant marketing messages to them as they cross channels can seem almost impossible. The only way that savvy marketers can overcome this problem is by having an approach that resolves consumer identity across all touch points — both digital and offline. This whitepaper presents Neustar’s authoritative identity methodology, which provides a single, consistent view of consumers, no matter the channel or device. You’ll learn:

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VIRTUAL ADVERTISING CUTTING THROUGH THE REGULATION

whitePaper | November 30, 2021

This paper proposes a way forward for entities seeking to implement or take advantage of virtual advertising solutions. It focuses on use of this technology in a sporting context but the principles are as relevant to use of the technologywithin any live event broadcast. Although there is a complex legal framework, with differing positions around the world, we believe it is useful to develop some broad principles in this emerging regulatory area to support the development of the Virtual Advertising sector.

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The Ultimate Guide to OEM advertising

whitePaper | September 20, 2022

Modern performance marketing is no longer limited to paid placements on Meta or Google Ads. Android mobile phone manufacturers have built their own advertising platforms as a part of their operating system. As we know, Android manufacturers are predominantly brands of Asian origin. In the global market of mobile advertising OEMs develop as a response to the monopoly of Meta and Google. There is a list of predominant factors suggesting that OEMs are going to take the leading role as user acquisition channels in the next couple of years.

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Attitudes to programmatic advertising 2019

whitePaper | December 31, 2019

The 2019 IAB Europe Attitudes to Programmatic study highlights the following: There is a continued push for a quality and safe advertising environment Ads.txt is well established amongst publishers but awareness and adoption on the buy-side is low Talent and skills remain a barrier to investment.

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FourthWall Media

FourthWall Media is a pioneer at the intersection of technology, media, and data. We use our proprietary software to collect and process hundreds of millions of second-by-second viewing events every day, adding to our 5 years of historic data from millions of homes and nearly 10 million set top boxes sourced from more than a dozen distribution partners.

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