Tag: Viewability


Why The Ad Industry Needs More Accurate Data

January 9th, 2018 | Matthew Chung, Manager, Communications and Content

As the industry rolls into 2018, ACA spoke with comScore Canada’s General Manager, Brent Bernie; Bryan Segal, VP and Darrick Li, Senior Director, Sales, to ask them to take one last look back at 2017 and share goals for the year ahead. Read on for their advice to marketers for 2018.

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[Forecasting 2016] The Year Of Transparency

December 22nd, 2015 | ACA Team,

With 2015 coming to a close, ACA is asking the experts to predict the trends they think will shape the industry in 2016. So far, Stephan Argent has written about Agency Search Management, Grant Le Riche looked at media and Brent Barootes has given his outlook for the sponsorship space. Next up is Joan Brehl, […]

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[Forecasting 2016] Programmatic TV’s Ready For Prime Time

December 3rd, 2015 | ACA Team,

With 2015 coming to a close, ACA is asking the experts to predict the trends they think will shape the industry in 2016. Leading off is Grant Le Riche, Managing Director, TubeMogul Canada. Perhaps the only thing that the advertising industry enjoys more than celebrating past work is guessing what will happen in the future. […]

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Ron Lund Calls for Urgent Response to Online Threats

July 21st, 2015 | Matthew Chung, Manager, Communications and Content

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.

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Viewability: The Cornerstone of Online Video

November 26th, 2014 | ACA Team,

By Grant le Riche, Managing Director, TubeMogul July 1st – the day that the MRC (Media Rating Council) in the US announced the standard for online video viewability – is now five months in the rearview. So what do we have to show for it? Well, we know that a “viewable” video impression is one […]

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If a digital ad falls in the wrong place, does it make an impression?

June 3rd, 2014 | Brent Bernie, President, comscore Canada

We’re all familiar with the philosophical question, “if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” Striking parallels to this old adage can be drawn in our industry today, where many are asking a similar question relating to the effectiveness of ads in the digital environment. In light of concerns around ad viewability, brand safety and in-target delivery, many are now asking: “If an ad falls in the wrong place and no one has an opportunity to see it, does it make an impression?”

In other words, what is the value of an ad that doesn’t deliver an opportunity to be seen, or worse, is delivered next to brand unsafe content? How should we value an impression that reaches a consumer outside of the intended target?

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