Google Chrome is getting a major update next month, so we spoke with our Vice President of Engineering, James Jackson to break down the release and appropriate next steps for publishers. The update will roll out to all users on February 4th, 2020. What is the Chrome 80 release? It’s a new version of the [...]
The Issue: CPMs Are Down Year Over Year 2019 has unfortunately been a very soft year compared to 2018. Industry-wide, CPMs have been down over 10%, year-over-year, and in some verticals significantly lower than that. We see that in aggregate numbers for the sites that we manage and are hearing the same in many industry [...]
Too often consumers are disrupted by slow browsing, inconvenient pop-ups, and frustrating distractions that restricts the user from enjoying the content they came to see. The Solution Last year, Google joined the Coalition for Better Ads, a group dedicated to creating global standards for online advertising that address consumer expectations and improve user experience. The [...]
The General Data Protection Regulation, known as GDPR, takes effect May 25, changing the laws around data privacy in the European Union. The scope of GDPR is as complex as it is extensive and will have long-standing effects on how publishers and advertising companies interact with European users. With just over a month left until [...]
The launch of the built-in Google Chrome ad blocker is now only a couple days away. Slated for February 15th, Chrome will begin flagging and ultimately blocking ad formats deemed harmful to user experience. To start, only the most offensive ad formats will be blocked. These include ads that are too large, impeding user the [...]
Google will begin distrusting Symantec issued SSL certificates starting with Chrome 66 - which will be rolled out to Chrome Beta users in March and Stable users in April of this year. On October 23, 2018 Google will kill all trust in any Symantec SSL certificates with the roll out of Chrome 70. The decision [...]
