2017’s sexiest marketing topics

The industry has been put on notice and if common sense prevails, viewability, bot fraud and third-party auditing are about to become a whole lot sexier, which will ultimately mean more growth for brands and advertisers, argues ThinkTV’s Kim Portrate.

Ten points to Marc Pritchard for making his “not sexy” marketing topics as sexy as all hell last week. If common sense prevails, the themes of his address at IAB’s Annual Leadership meeting in Florida will actually prove to be the industry’s sexiest topics of 2017.

Last week P&G’s chief brand officer caned large swathes of the online advertising industry for a string of shortcomings that the world’s biggest advertiser is no longer willing to avert its gaze from.

Pritchard put us all on notice. All the industry’s sacred cows – ludicrous viewability standards, the rise of bot and methbot fraud along with online ad platforms marking their own scorecards – were put under the microscope in a scorching and fearless speech.

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