Elon Musk has said that X/Twitter will charge new users a “small fee” for posting on the platform. This follows the roll-out of an annual $1 fee in New Zealand and the Philippines last year. Rather than another hare-brained scheme to add revenue, Musk said it’s an attempt to block bots.
It’s tough to get brand safety right, but the industry keeps trying. IPG Mediabrands announced a new set of tools to find and block inappropriate ad placements, while IAS expanded its suitability measurements to include standards from the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM). Meanwhile, DoubleVerify admitted a mistake made brand safety on X/Twitter look worse than it really was in October 2023 and March 2024.
Yahoo Advertising is enabling improved targeting and measurement for advertisers across a range of CTV platforms including NBCUniversal, Paramount and Tubi. Yahoo ConnectID serves addressable environments. For non-addressable environments, Next-Gen Solutions treats known Yahoo ConnectID users as a panel audience to infer strategies for targeting and optimization.
In partnership with attention metrics provider Adelaide, The Trade Desk is now offering high attention inventory to advertisers. Attention — often based on reactions of opt-in panels to ads — is now competing with viewability as a valued attribute, and is being used to complement contextual metrics. Attention has been used in the past to test ads once they have been published; now it’s entering the pre-bid space.