The digital advertising industry: can it clean up its act?

Explores how the clean up of digital advertising is likely to unfold as we approach the end of 2018, following the industry’s brand safety scandals, changing viewability demands, and ad fraud developments.

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Introduction

Over the past 18 months, brand safety, viewability, and ad fraud issues have hit the headlines and become key challenges for the advertising industry. But these issues aren’t new; indeed many have been there since the very beginning of digital. So, now they have risen again to the top of the agenda, what are the next steps for the industry to truly...

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