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MarTech » Marketing Operations » Apple News goes from walled garden to ‘well-lit garden’ with third-party measurement

Apple News goes from walled garden to ‘well-lit garden’ with third-party measurement

The move comes against the backdrop of growing advertiser demand for outside measurement.

Greg Sterling on April 3, 2017 at 10:26 am

Late last year, Apple struck a deal with NBCUniversal to become its exclusive ad sales partner for Apple News. Last week, AdExchanger reported that Apple will soon allow ad serving tags and third-party measurement services.

According to the article, “Apple News will not only support tags from rich media ad servers including Kargo and Celtra, but also third-party measurement services like comScore and Moat.” Additional third parties apparently will be added to the list over time.

James Kreckler, SVP of digital ad sales for NBCUniversal, told AdExchanger that third-party measurement would transform Apple News’ walled garden into a “well-lit garden.”

The move is partly to make the app more competitive with comparable offerings from Google and Facebook, both of which have come under fire lately from advertisers surrounding issues of accurate reporting and transparency. The digital ad environment now is one where advertisers are increasingly demanding third-party validation and verification.

Apple News has gone from being a relatively weak offering at launch to a much stronger one since iOS 10. Indeed, it’s much stronger (from a user experience perspective) than Google News. Apple News reportedly has in excess of 70 million monthly users.

There will be both standard mobile display and video inventory available. Ads sold by NBCUniversal will appear in the feed and in topic-specific sections of Apple News, such as entertainment, sports, lifestyle and travel.

Publishers may also continue to sell their own ads, which is where the majority of the ad placements in Apple News have come from to date. NBCUniversal will sell remaining inventory, but the company also said it will develop new types of products for brand advertisers.


Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily MarTech. Staff authors are listed here.


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Greg Sterling
Greg Sterling is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land, a member of the programming team for SMX events and the VP, Market Insights at Uberall.

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