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Surveillance protection: Key benefits for publishers
By Don Marti & Bill Densmore Ad fraud is enabled by cross-site surveillance: A fraudbot collects cookies (“cookie licking”) at a legit publisher’s site, then uses them to look like a human when visiting fraud sites. This is called “data leakage.” The costs of fraud...
An opportunity for local news sites — testing how many of your best readers you’re giving away to ad networks
By Bill Densmore and Don Marti RELATED LINKS: What is data leakage? How the ITE can solve data leakage and fosters ethical advertising) Service journalism and the web advertising problem INTRODUCTION Web sites that depend on reaching users with trustworthy content...
How a news-industry trade group may be helping regulators (and the ITE) to support quality and privacy
By Don Marti Legitimate consumer privacy tools and high-reputation publishers, working together, can transform advertising on the web. Tools and sites can help users block low-value, cold-call-like targeted ads while permitting signal-carrying ads, the ones that...
A new year’s resolution: The end of ‘right ad to the right user at the right time’
By Don Marti Start toward the end of “right ad to the right user at the right time”. That's my aspiration for 2017. The current web advertising model depends on tracking the same user across multiple sites (either “anonymously” or using PII). Per-user targeting across...
TrustX intentions might help fix digital advertising for publishers — and users
By Bill Densmore ITE Project Director Almost two years in the making, a new initiative backed by many major U.S. publishers might have the potential to cut down on problems with fraud and privacy abuses in the digital advertising industry. "TrustX," unveiled on Monday...
Concerning the future of news: Three views, two requirements and an inflection point?
By Bill Densmore ITE Project Director Consumers need a simple, secure way to access, share and pay for valuable information from multiple services and sources. News organizations – legacy and new – would like to be the best-possible source for those users to receive...