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  • Analytics Startup Rayn Is Trying To Make “Digital Twins” A Thing

    The idea of a digital twin is to create personas that function as amalgamations of how different people with similar preferences and online patterns think – or how they shop, to be specific. “None of your customers is unique,” Rayn co-founder and CEO Geenen said.

  • All Fund And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Creator; All Systems Ro’ For TV

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Fund At All After luring influencers with massive creator funds, social media companies are reverting back to an advertising revenue-share model to compensate creators. Meta will put its Reels Play bonus program for US Instagram users on hold, and Facebook is dropping […]

  • The Unbridgeable Ad Currency Gap; Ad Fraud Is Hiding Behind iFrames And GAM

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bog Standard TV broadcasters still dispute the basics of how to count an ad impression. This week, a broadcaster-backed joint industry committee published a first pass at standards for video currency providers. Paramount, which is part of the JIC, released a template of […]

  • How Can Advertisers Stop Funding Piracy? Block Sellers, Not Domains

    Domain blocking, the industry’s go-to approach for demonetizing sites that host pirated content, is set up to fail.

  • TikTok Is Getting Serious About Search; A Complex Fracture, But Not The Bad Kind

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Great Search TikTok has made waves because of its organic traction as a new kind of search engine. People use it to look for stores and restaurants nearby, where to travel, where to stay – you name it. But TikTok hasn’t effectively […]

  • Sheila Colclasure, global chief digital responsibility & public policy officer, Kinesso

    IPG Kinesso’s Sheila Colclasure: Privacy Is ‘A Strategic Business Value’

    There’s no such thing as “compliance by obscurity,” says Sheila Colclasure, who serves as global chief digital responsibility and public policy officer at Kinesso, the mar tech unit within IPG.

  • Google Shakes Off The DOJ Haymaker; Shorts May Not Make It For The Long Haul

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pass The DOJ Google faces a DOJ lawsuit that could compel the company to spin out its sell-side ad tech business. But the company isn’t overly concerned about this development, per a conversation between Marketing Brew and Google VP of Global Ads Dan […]

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    What Makes A Currency?; Google’s Ad Tech May Not Be The Big Problem

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Currents Of Currency In January, a group of US broadcasters formed a joint industry committee, fronted by OpenAP, to work on new video currency standards. On Monday, the JIC published its first guidelines. The “first pass” on these guidelines establishes a baseline between […]

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    Keep It Confidential; Taking License

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. BetterWatch Out The Federal Trade Commission has no patience for companies that misuse sensitive data. The agency issued a proposed order last week against online therapy service BetterHelp, which allegedly shared consumer health data with Facebook and others for targeted advertising, including prescription […]

  • Don’t Be Surprised If Peloton Launches A Media Network; Is That A Purchase, Perchance?

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Switching Gears Peloton stock has plummeted more than 90% in two years. Steep job cuts and revenue declines have customers worried whether their high-end bikes and memberships might become worthless. Which makes Peloton a prime candidate to launch an ad revenue business!  It’s […]

  • All Mathed Out; No Need For An iOS SOS?

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tough Math MediaMath came to the end of its decade-long venture capital tether last year when it sold a stake to PE firm Searchlight Capital, wiping out the equity of its founders, early investors and employees. It’s a bitter outcome, reports Insider in […]

  • As SSPs Shut Down, PubMatic Details Plans To Grow Market Share

    In its Q4 earnings report Tuesday, PubMatic highlighted how SSP consolidation is an opportunity for the company to pursue its goal of capturing a fifth of the SSP market.

  • Can BeReal Be The Real Thing?; Simpli.fi Acquires Bidtellect

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Let’s Get Real Last year, BeReal was flying high on organic growth. Apple named it “App of the Year,” a coveted title, because the prize is sweet, sweet App Store homepage visibility.  But can BeReal keep the magic alive long enough to, uhhh […]

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    A Bull Or Bear On TTD?; Part Of A Balanced Breakfast

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trade Desk Trade-Offs The investment bank Needham has both the bullish and bearish takes on The Trade Desk after the DSP reported earnings this month. And there is a compelling case in both directions.

  • Angry Birds Explodes Its Paid-For Version; Social Subscription Conniptions

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Ad-Supported Bird Gets The Worm Free-to-play reigns supreme in the mobile game market. Angry Birds, a mobile gaming OG that found early success using paid downloads, is now putting all its eggs into the ad-supported basket, Ars Technica reports. Rovio had already […]

  • A Spectrum Of TV Creative; PMax Concedes A Few New Advertiser Controls

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Artificial Ads Advertisers can use AI to generate entire TV commercials. Wait, what? Spectrum Reach launched an AI tool on Wednesday that clients can use to input basic company information (name and location), select the desired tone for the commercial and choose one […]

  • Cynically Sustainable; Was Podcast Advertising Just Wishcasting?

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Green Means Go Privacy and sustainability are critical topics for the future of humanity, and both are top priorities for many high earners in the US and the UK. So, of course, they’re used for cynical marketing purposes and anti-competition skullduggery. With an […]

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    Section 230 Goes Up Against SCOTUS; Check One, Check Two … Is Anyone Buying This?

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. 230 Unhurty? The US Supreme Court held oral arguments on Tuesday in the case of Gonzalez v. Google, which challenges the Section 230 legal protections for companies that host user-generated content. In the suit is the family of a victim of the 2015 […]

  • Is Bing Chat Ready For Ads? (NO); Agencies See Green

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bing Chat Is … Weird Microsoft’s AI-enabled Bing search is making waves for all the wrong reasons.  In early tests, the new Bing produced unhinged results that ranged from an aggressive know-it-all who’s constantly wrong to a jilted lover … to a robot […]

  • Can You Teach A Copycat New Tricks?; Wojcicki Out, Mohan Up

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The round-up will return Tuesday, February 21, in observance of the Presidents’ Day holiday. Thanks, George and Abe, for the long weekend! The Clone Wars Every few months, social platforms align on a shiny new object … that’s really just another version of […]

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    Instagram Is Shopped Out Already; How Many People Watched The Super Bowl?

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Shop ’Til You Drop Instagram will shut down the ability to tag items and direct people to a sale during a livestream, TechCrunch reports. The feature had been available since 2020 and was part of Meta’s overall push into more direct payments after […]

  • IAC You On The Other Side; Chatbots Nail The Rehearsal But Aren’t Ready For Showtime

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Dot Dot Dot – Dash Dash Dash – Dot Dot Dot Dotdash Meredith is feeling the same pain as many others amid a pullback in advertising. And IAC’s revenue woes were compounded by soft consumer demand, which dinged its affiliate marketing business, according […]

  • Canadians Say No-Can-Do; Streaming Of The Good Old Days

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Don’t Label Me Canada is coming for digital platforms like YouTube, TikTok, Spotify and Netflix with legislation that requires the services to feature Canadian content in country. The new law extends regulations already in place for domestic TV and radio stations to abide […]

  • Getting Serious About Casual Games; Wait, Is Congress For Real About Something?

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Crushin’ It Because Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard is still in the air, the Candy Crush owner didn’t host an earnings call. But Activision Blizzard did share a Q4 earnings summary, which included some revealing nuggets about what it takes for ad-supported […]

  • AppLovin Spikes On Ambitious Guidance; The First-Party Data Bowl

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. AppLovin You … Next Quarter  AppLovin didn’t have a very good Q4 by the numbers, but shares leaped by 30% after the company reported earnings on Wednesday. What gives? Although revenue declined 11% year over year to $702 million, AppLovin still beat analyst […]

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    EMX Files For Bankruptcy

    Digital ad marketplace EMX (ENGINE Media Exchange) and its New York-based parent company, Big Village, have filed for bankruptcy. AdExchanger has learned that EMX shut down most operations and let go almost all of its employees as of Thursday.

  • The (NY) Times, It Is A-Changin’; Amazon Spends Money To Make Money

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Sign Of The Times The New York Times beat expectations for Q4 2022 thanks to a strong subscription bundling push, according to its earnings report. But digital ad revenue was only up a smidge. The Times added 240,000 net digital subscribers in […]

  • Criteo Is Shopping For A New Owner; Meet The TikTok De-Influencers

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Retargeting A Sale Criteo, a stalwart of independent ad tech, is shopping its business to potential buyers, Reuters reports.  No deal is imminent, and this isn’t the first time Criteo has tested the waters. In 2021, Criteo went through a sale review but […]

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    Acxiom Takes Its Data Broker Biz To The Cloud With Snowflake’s Help

    Everyone’s got their head in the clouds: ad tech, media and even consumer data brokers. On Tuesday, Acxiom announced a data clean room service built on Snowflake that media and advertising companies can use to target and measure campaigns using their own first-party data sets and Acxiom’s consumer profiles. Data clean room services have existed […]

  • Can TikTok Win Search Budgets?; How Ad Spend Floats Downstream

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. I Don’t Speak TikTok TikTok introduced search ad campaigns last year. But it’s a tough sell, especially considering TikTok’s organic traction. TikTok has a strong consumer pitch, which happens to be the focus of its new ad campaign, but advertisers are wary, Marketing […]

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