Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Direct Control Direct-to-consumer upstarts are giving established brands a run for their money, and are also wreaking some havoc in the agency world. That’s because DTC brands are for the most part digitally native and do their advertising in-house. Despite its $1 billion acquisition […]
Federal Trade Commission members said during a House hearing Wednesday that the FTC does not have the authority to adequately punish companies that misuse consumer data. Several data privacy scandals over the last year and a half prompted the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing. Equifax’s data breach in 2017, for example, released personal information […]
Google was hit with a $5.1 billion fine by the European Union on Wednesday for antitrust practices around the Android mobile operating system – a move that underscores Europe’s willingness to issue steep financial penalties for bad behavior. And there’s another bludgeon in the EU’s cache that Google – and the advertising world in general […]
AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. This episode of AdExchanger Talks is supported by Tealium. NCC Media may be the biggest TV media company you’ve never heard of. A joint venture of cable TV operators Comcast, Cox and Spectrum, it was formed three decades ago to pool their data and sell cable TV […]
Less than two years after Vector Capital sealed its $122 million deal to acquire Sizmek, the private equity firm is already looking to divest. Multiple sources with direct knowledge told AdExchanger that Vector has been shopping Sizmek, possibly as early as April, and just a year and a half after the deal closed. Vector denied […]
Video ad startup VideoAmp said Wednesday it has acquired Boston-based data processor IronGrid and partnered with Vizio’s TV data-selling unit, Inscape. VideoAmp hopes to use IronGrid’s data processing powers and its Inscape partnership to strengthen its privacy-compliant household ID based on TV data. Terms of the IronGrid sale were not disclosed, though the company is […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Chad Wollen, chief marketing officer at Smartpipe. With consumer trust in brands at such a low point it is worth reflecting on a home truth: Companies neglected to put the […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ron Roccuzzo, managing director of ad operations at The 614 Group. Weighing whether to outsource a publisher’s ad-operations needs is an important decision that should never be taken lightly. There are many factors to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. SaaSy Publisher Vox Media will license its digital publishing software Chorus to other publishers, The Wall Street Journal reports. Twenty media companies are in talks to license Chorus already, which allows publishers to create, monetize and distribute articles for a recurring fee. In the […]
It seems everyone wants a piece of AppLovin. Private equity firm KKR bought a $400 million minority stake in the app marketing and discovery platform on Tuesday, lifting AppLovin’s valuation to around $2 billion from $1.4 billion just eight months ago. Bank of America Merrill Lynch advised AppLovin on the investment, adding a new wrinkle […]
