A number of ad tech-backed coalitions consolidating cookie pools have bubbled up this year to stave off Google, Facebook and Amazon running away with the market with their own scaled identity assets. And trends like Safari’s ITP cookie restrictions shift the advantage further toward the walled gardens with daily active users. AdExchanger looked at a […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Matter Of Time The Justice Department is prepping for potential litigation in case the government isn’t able to agree on a settlement for the $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner by AT&T, sources tell The Wall Street Journal. Shares of both companies are […]
The ad server SpotX and ad verification company DoubleVerify have flagged a new type of fraud they’re calling “verification stripping.” DoubleVerify says the new method may be responsible for up to 10% of ad fraud spikes it identifies. Verification stripping happens when fraudsters hinder the transmission of network calls between the ad server and measurement […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. TAM Jam Programmatic advertising will make up 83% of US display dollars by 2019, according to an updated programmatic spend forecast from eMarketer. By 2019, more than $45.7 billion will be transacted programmatically. Almost 80% of that spend will flow through private marketplaces and […]
There’s a storm cloud darkening Criteo’s sunny Q3 earnings (33% YoY growth ex-TAC to $234 million), in the form of Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) feature, which went into effect Sept. 19. [More AdExchanger coverage.] ITP cost Criteo a little less than $1 million in Q3, but that number is expected to grow as iOS 11 […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tech Testifies Washington, DC, politicians grilled Facebook, Twitter and Google this week about how their platforms have been manipulated by foreign agents. “It shouldn’t be news to anyone that Russia interfered in the election,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) during a hearing convened by […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Carrying Bricks Walmart wants to ramp up its ad business. As reported by Digiday, its pitch to advertisers tracks closely with Amazon’s: Let us match your first-party data to our shoppers and then connect the resulting ads to sales. It’s a powerful offer, since […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Unstoppable Big tech may be under scrutiny in Washington, but it’s doing just fine on Wall Street. Amazon, Google and Microsoft continue to post huge profits and revenue growth, even as regulators become more critical of their growing influence over news and industry. On […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pulling The Knockoffs Business Insider’s service-focused programmatic strategy helped it uncover exchanges selling spoofed BI inventory, said programmatic VP Jana Meron at AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O conference Thursday. Last year, a client planned to cut its BI private marketplace deal because it was able to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Agencies Are People Too LiveRamp will let agencies make its IdentityLink onboarding solution more widely available to marketing services firms, AdAge reports. Launched last year, IdentityLink allows customers – historically brands – to resolve a single identity across different online and offline touch points. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bird’s-Eye View Twitter is in the early stages of a Media Rating Council audit of its measurement metrics, following in the footsteps of Facebook and Google. A “pre-assessment” phase this quarter will allow independent CPA auditors to review Twitter’s compliance. A full-blown audit will […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Free Lunch Facebook is testing a product that splits its news feed into a primary feed for friend-and-family content and a secondary feed with brand and media pages. Promoted posts remain in the primary feed. Some media owners say that if implemented, the […]
ActionIQ on Monday raised a $30 million Series B round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. New York City-based ActionIQ is a customer data platform that collects and integrates enterprise data sources. The round brings ActionIQ’s total funding to about $45 million. The customer data platforms Segment and mParticle, which have raised $109 […]
The more things change, the more things stay the same. At least that’s the case for the crowded demand-side platform (DSP) category, where Google and Amazon maintain their top-dog status. Meanwhile, independent, telco-owned and marketing cloud DSPs vie for a dwindling number of enterprise accounts, according to an Advertiser Perceptions survey of more than 700 […]
Even as many advertisers embrace audience-based buying, context remains a key performance driver in many verticals. Take finance, a category in which advertisers often sell sophisticated products to niche audiences. Third-party data can be expensive, with iffy quality, so it’s often better to reach audiences while they’re reading about finance and business. Dianomi, a profitable […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Chopping Block Sell-side consolidation is real. Take Turner Broadcasting, which spent the past year whittling its SSP, ad exchange and ad network vendors from 30 to six. Its tech consolidation wasn’t about reducing vendor fees. Rather, it’s improved data and ad campaign integration across […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Welcome Shopper Marketing Dollars Amazon is letting brands enhance their product pages with widescreen videos and interactive displays, Ad Age reports. The new feature, called Premium Pages, costs $500,000 per year, per brand, and allows marketers to take advantage of a full-screen video experience […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Dr. Boris Ad tech “godfather” Boris Mouzykantskii recounts the early days of Iponweb in a conversation with Gartner Research VP Martin Kihn. He describes the work he did for Brian O’Kelley, who was then pulling all-nighters writing code that would become Right Media. Later […]
This is the second in a series on demystifying the best practices in media today. Read the first on audience suppression. Frequency management, which first emerged when advertisers tried to calculate reach and media impact of their traditional TV buys, is tricky even for the most sophisticated marketers. And it’s gotten trickier with the advent […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Networked Television NBCUniversal is putting its $500 million investment in Snap to good use with a joint TV production studio creating scripted Snapchat programs. The studio has already inked a partnership with Donut Studios, which will create short-form shows with 10-second ad breaks. Some […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cookie Crumbles Apple’s recent policy change to limit cookie-based tracking of Safari users [AdExchanger coverage] is already starting to hit publishers reliant on programmatic. CafeMedia, which sells about half of its inventory programmatically, has seen CPMs on Safari dip 10% or more from expected […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pivot To Video LinkedIn is finally selling video ads: native, autoplay and sound-off. Because LinkedIn has a subscription revenue stream, it hasn’t launched ad products as aggressively as other platforms. But video is increasingly seen as a core social feature. And for LinkedIn the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Jack Of All Trades A consortium of trade groups pressuring a coalition: It’s like “Inception,” but for ad tech. The ANA, 4As and IAB sent a letter on Thursday to the Coalition for Better Ads asking it to modify its Better Ads Standards to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Scrambled Eggs Since its acquisition of Sapient in 2014 [AdExchanger coverage], Publicis Groupe has tried to make business transformation a key service offering. On Wednesday, the group announced its latest reorg to achieve that goal, this time underpinned by a data and technology group […]
KFC had lost its way. While the fast-food chain was growing internationally, by 2013, it had faced seven straight years of quarterly store traffic declines in the US, causing it to lose 40% of its business. Fueling the struggle was an out-of-touch brand, said CMO Kevin Hochman at the ANA Masters of Marketing conference in […]
Santander Bank is using content marketing to become relevant to millennials, which is why it launched its Prosper and Thrive website – designed to provide financial guidance – last November. Prosper and Thrive’s articles cover small decisions, like how much to spend on a wedding gift, as well as big ones, like tips for first-time […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Context Is Key Snap launched Context Cards on Tuesday, allowing users to swipe a location-tagged picture for additional information about the place. Partners like Michelin, Foursquare, TripAdvisor and Goop integrate their reviews with Snap so users can get more information before visiting a location […]
Since launching a proprietary YouTube measurement system last January (and later expanding it to DoubleClick and the Google Display Network), Google has been pretty buttoned up about its Ads Data Hub. However, Google VP of Product Management Brad Bender tells AdExchanger that adoption of the audience management tool is strong. Google claims Ads Data Hub […]
