Technology

Google's Ad Boss on Ad Blocking, AMP Ad Viewability and Enhanced Campaigns

Sridhar Ramaswamy, Google senior VP-advertising and commerce
January 26, 2016 05:00 PM

Digital media companies are dealing with a bunch of problems plaguing their advertising-based business models. A growing number of people are blocking the ads running on their sites, forcing publishers to find ways to get those people to unblock their ads or pay one of the ad blocking companies to do so. And the share of their audiences that aren't blocking ads aren't always seeing their ads to the chagrin of their advertisers. And then there's a portion of the audience that are computers disguised as people that are created to filch advertisers' money with the added effect of scaring off those advertisers from putting more money on the table.

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