WARC: There Are No Outcomes Without Attention

Marc Guldimann, CEO of Adelaide argues that letting media sellers optimize to outcomes at the expense of media quality, or worse, transacting on outcomes, creates a set of incentives and measures that sellers with sufficient data can easily game. Read the article here.


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