Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. HBO Maxed Out Warner Bros. Discovery is an awkward forced marriage between two streaming services. But Discovery is already wearing the pants in this relationship. The original content slate for Discovery+ is going strong, while Warner Media’s HBO Max is taking cut after cut. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Did The Oracle Get It Wrong? Is it time to call it on Oracle Advertising? The group had painful layoffs this summer and has fallen behind rivals, Insider reports. Oracle spent $4 billion to package BlueKai, Datalogix, Moat and more into what’s now […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Vast Ocean Mediaocean is planning to acquire video ad rendering company Imposium to boost its CTV ad product. Although Mediaocean has deep roots in software for TV ad management and analytics, it’s evolved to embrace CTV and digital over the past year. (The […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Back To The Scoreboard Ad tech is revisiting panels. In some cases, that also means revisiting Nielsen. Amazon Prime, which has exclusive airing rights to the NFL’s “Thursday Night Football,” signed a three-year deal with Nielsen on Tuesday to do audience measurement for […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Fair Share In the years before Apple dropped its AppTrackingTransparency (ATT) framework on the industry’s head like a ton of bricks, the company discussed a possible special arrangement with Facebook to cut Apple in on a slice of Facebook’s revenue, The Wall Street […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Spam And Regs Google submitted a proposal to the Federal Election Commission earlier this month for an idea to allow authorized political emails to go directly to Gmail inboxes without the risk of its filters putting the message into spam. Google’s attorney said in […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Soup To Box Did you know Chicken Soup for the Soul has a streaming service? Well, it does, and now it also owns Redbox – it paid $375 million for the 20-year-old movie rental kiosk and closed the deal Thursday, the same day it […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Games Or Gains? Gaming on Netflix isn’t taking off. That’s hardly surprising – you may very well not even have known Netflix has gaming. And that’s a problem for Netflix, which is looking to increase its subscriber base (or at least keep existing subscribers […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Plus Interest The idea of a “subscription economy” has grown beyond news and entertainment – and as subscription-based relationships become more valuable, it creates a new way for businesses to work together. Case in point: Walmart talked to Comcast, Paramount and Disney execs about a […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Lyft Off The latest non-advertising company to launch an ad business comes as no surprise. Ride-hailing app Lyft has introduced Lyft Media, to be helmed by Kenan Saleh, co-founder and former CEO of Halo Cars. Halo, a startup that places digital billboards on rideshare […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Topics Of Concern The Chrome Topics API, Google’s proposed third-party-cookie replacement, may perpetuate problems that plagued digital advertising and which the product aims to solve, writes Aram Zucker-Scharff, The Washington Post’s engineering lead for privacy and security, in a personal blog post. If […]
France’s data protection regulator, the CNIL, just hit Criteo with some not-so-très-bien news. The CNIL is planning to recommend a fine of $65 million against Criteo for alleged GDPR violations, the company announced in an SEC filing on Friday. The filing is very thin on detail. For example, it’s not even clear what practice or […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. All Fun And Games (For Some) A week ago, Google quietly made a large chunk of mobile gaming revenue disappear with the news that it would prohibit certain in-game formats – namely, full-screen ads that display unexpectedly, full-screen ads that display before the main […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Speak Softly, And Carry A Big Tech Big Tech is on the defensive in the US, where it’s become politically popular to take shots at Alphabet, Meta and Amazon. But events that have transpired over the past year abroad demonstrate how powerful those […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. HIP-HIP- … Hooray? Meta is being sued again. (We’re sure you’re not surprised.) And this time it’s about health-related data. In June, The Markup uncovered that the websites of 33 of Newsweek’s top 100 hospitals had a Meta pixel embedded that was transmitting data […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Weird First Dates … I Mean Data Nothing beats the holidays for first-party data gimmicks, but summer is putting on a show. On Friday, Cheetos, a Pepsi brand, announced a giveaway for “fannie macs” – as in fanny packs for summer festivals that […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A (Pro)cure For What Ails You Agencies and brand marketers are split over their view of procurement. Which is to say, marketers collaborate well with their own procurement departments while agencies begrudge the procurement folks. At least, that’s the message in a new ANA […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Googling Through The Headlines Google flooded the zone with news and interviews this week. On the transparency front, one announcement that will impact ad tech is Google Ad Manager’s new “Revenue Verification Report.” GAM, the Google SSP, will look into buy-side gross revenue […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. B2B Goes Back To Basics B2B publishers, intent-based media, SEO sites: They’re the biggest media companies you’ve never heard of, according to Brian Morrissey at The Rebooting. It’s a category that gets little attention – at least not compared to the likes of Vox […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ripe For Change Earlier this year, as part of a concession to antitrust regulators, Apple started allowing certain developers to avoid paying its 30% App Store fee by redirecting users to external sites in order to subscribe – and now Netflix is taking advantage. Previously, […]
The ill-fated (and relatively brief) love affair between telcos and ad tech really is over. On Monday, Singaporean telco Singtel finally sold mobile-focused marketing platform Amobee to Tremor International for $239 million. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter. (Read the release.) Tremor went public in June 2021. Its stock, which is […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Through The Tube Nielsen has another horse in the measurement race, and this one’s name is Good Ol’ YouTube. Nielsen’s new Four-Screen Ad Deduplication product allows media buyers to compare their reach on YouTube across desktop, mobile, CTV and their linear audiences to reduce […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pronounced She-In, As In “Ooh … She In Trouble Now” The fast-fashion company Shein, a gigantic but secretive Chinese manufacturer of fast fashion, is getting a lot of attention. Which Shein both does and does not want. On the plus side, Shein has […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. VideoLift Breaking into connected TV isn’t easy. It takes hard-earned partnerships with dominant distributors like Netflix or Disney. TripleLift has been attempting to shoulder its way into CTV for some time by insisting that native ad formats work in CTV despite being relatively new. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Game-Changer The NFL has a history of media and marketing innovation. If we’re keeping score, it was the first sports league to reach every TV in America, the first to invest in studio-style production and the first to mic players on the field. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Going With The Stream Broadcasters are all-in on streaming subscriptions as the metric du jour, but they are still awkwardly adapting to the market. Linear TV bundles are lucrative – especially compared to streaming services that lose billions per year. But programmers can’t (or […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Amazon’s Private Parts Amazon has been reducing the number of private-label products it sells, and leaders have also “discussed the possibility of exiting the private-label business entirely,” The Wall Street Journal reports. Many Amazon private-label product lines have slow or diminishing sales. But there’s […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Compromise For Google Google’s reported offer to US regulators as a bid to avoid an antitrust suit was to spin off part of its ad business. But that news apparently landed with a thud. The Department of Justice is poised to move […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Get The Net! Corks are popping in Redmond, Washington, home of Microsoft, after news that Netflix selected Microsoft Advertising as the global sales and technology partner for its ad business. “Microsoft has the proven ability to support all our advertising needs as we work […]
