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5 Big Takeaways For Publishers From Google’s API Leak
May was a challenging month for Google. The launch of AI Overviews didn't go as planned, and a set of Search API documents were leaked, revealing over 14,000 top-secret factors used in their search algorithms. Several industry experts like Mike King, Rand Fishkin and [...]
Meet Your Newest Competitor – Google’s AI Overviews
You may have noticed a new addition to the Google search result pages launch earlier this month, it was pretty hard not to. With many search queries, AI-generated answers now auto-populate at the top of the results. This answer is compiled from a mixture [...]
Freestar Explains: CMA Q1 2024 Report Google Privacy Sandbox
Introduction On Friday, April 26th, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) published its Q1 2024 report on the implementation of the Google Privacy Sandbox (“GPS”). This is the CMA’s eighth report on the GPS and its ability to replace cookie technology while not [...]
ICYMI: Ad Tech Edition | Week of November 27th, 2023
Bits and Bobs from around the industry: Google Confirms January Cookie Deprecation Google is replacing the exec who oversees its $220 [...]
LiveRamp’s Authenticated Traffic Solution and Google PAIR
As part of Freestar’s commitment to helping our partners improve their ad monetization, and prepare for a cookieless future, we closely partner [...]
Advice to Your Younger Self – From Thought Leaders Around the Industry V.3
In our podcast Blood, Sweat and CPMs, Kurt Donnell, President & CEO of Freestar, interviews thought leaders across the industry to get [...]
ICYMI: Ad Tech Edition | Week of November 13th, 2023
Bits and Bobs from around the industry: Google Might Have to Delay its Plan to Kill Tracking Cookies Until 2025, Ad [...]
ICYMI: Ad Tech Edition | Week of November 6th, 2023
Bits and Bobs from around the industry: The IAB Tech Lab is Seeking Comment On a New Data Deletion Framework Wunderkind’s [...]
ICYMI: Ad Tech Edition | Week of October 30th, 2023
Bits and Bobs from around the industry: Media Briefing: Publishers are counting down to the end of Q4 Publishers, Don’t Settle [...]
