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Programmatic is fast-becoming the dominant approach to buying digital media but many marketers remain in the dark about how their money is spent. On June 23, Andrew Altersohn, Chief Executive Officer, AD/FIN Solutions, will speak at ACA’s Executive Forum at Corus Quay, sharing results of the study, Programmatic – Seeing Through the Financial Fog. ACA […]

As the industry prepares to turn the page on another year marked by massive changes, ACA is asking the experts to predict the trends they think will disrupt 2017. Previous articles have come from Stephan Argent of Argedia Group, with his forecast for agency search management, 361 Degrees partner Veronica Holmes, identifying top digital trends […]

In a comprehensive new series titled the 2016 Guide to Media Transparency, the Alliance for Audited Media (AAM) talks to leaders from all sides of the industry to better understand the issues and how to build more accountability and transparency between parties for the long-term success of digital media. Throughout the next several months, AAM […]

ACA President Ron Lund has issued a challenge to the industry to tackle the issues of fraud, transparency and viewability.

“It is the marketer who should and must lead this effort, but with close industry collaboration,” Lund argues in a recent Op/Ed in Marketing Magazine.

This call to action comes on the heels of the ACA’s Executive Forum, where Canadian marketers showed how they are starting to take action. Meanwhile, the ACA has taken a leadership role to help restore trust and transparency in the Canadian digital marketing ecosystem, starting several initiatives, both independently and with other industry associations.

Establishing a more transparent media marketplace has been top-of-mind for marketers this year, and on June 10 at the ACA Executive Forum, marketers showed how they are taking action. The topic – Taking a Hard Line with Online: The Client Perspective – created considerable buzz among the more than 100 attendees in a cinema at […]

Transparency (or the lack of it) in programmatic buying was the elephant in the room last week at Marketing magazine’s AD-Vantage Programmatic Trading Conference. And Ian Hewetson, VP of Client Services for ad server and demand-side platform Eyereturn Marketing, made sure to address it during his morning keynote session.

“You’ve got a lot of different players in almost every single programmatic buy,” Hewetson (pictured, right) told a packed room on Tuesday March 31 at the Bram and Bluma Appel Salon in the Toronto Reference Library. “You’ve got the site, the supply-side platform (SSP), the exchange, a demand-side platform (DSP), maybe you have a verification vendor, maybe you’ve got third-party data in there, and an agency trading desk too.