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Do Me A Favor Amazon told Congress in 2019 that it doesn’t favor Amazon-owned brands in search results. But that isn’t credible to sellers, who time and again see Amazon rivals shoot into the top three search results immediately. A former Amazon employee told The Markup that Amazon reserved a top search spot for new […]

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Kii To Success? As the ad industry struggles to come up with solutions to its identity crisis, Kinesso, IPG’s data and technology unit, claims it has the key … ahem, the Kii. That’s what Kinesso is calling its new identity offering. In a world […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Ten-Digit Club Big ups to TikTok, which claims in a blog post to have one billion monthly active users around the world. For comparison, Snapchat passed half a billion monthly users in May, while Pinterest and Twitter reported 454 million and 330 million […]

“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 Oz Etzioni, CEO at Clinch. 2021 is shaping up to be a breakthrough year for advertising technology. After several fallow years for ad tech companies and a necessary period of […]

While diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts to work with minority-owned media companies and hire a diverse workforce are important, brands also need to address a rapidly changing cultural landscape in the United States, according to Isaac Mizrahi, co-president and COO of Miami-based multicultural ad agency Alma Ad Agency (no relation to the fashion designer). […]

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Erik Huberman, CEO and founder of marketing consultancy Hawke Media, has some pretty strong – if not outright harsh – words for most media agencies out there: “They’re full of [expletive].” Before founding the Los Angeles-based company in 2014, Huberman launched and sold two commerce companies – Swag of the Month and Ellie – and […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Booming Biz The DSP Viant reported a year-over-year revenue increase of 66% to $50.4 million. Viant IPOed in February, part of a recent boom in programmatic companies on the public market. As with most of those companies, Viant is going big on CTV, which […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pour One Out For The Insta-Brands Facebook surprised most analysts with a powerhouse Q2, despite the rollout of Apple’s AppTrackingTransparency (ATT) framework and new IDFA rules. But Facebook’s diminished targeting and attribution capabilities are having concrete effects on advertisers. A few years ago, many […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Agency Revival “Broad-based recovery” is the term of the week, repeated in quarterly earnings calls by ad giants like Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook, as well as the publicly traded agency holding companies, which capped off unexpectedly strong years with additional growth in Q2 […]

A year ago, all the major ad agency holding companies were digging themselves out of a deep hole, as investors hedged their bets on the return of ad budgets and even the survival of traditional agencies. Fast forward one year – and what a difference that year has made. Omnicom lost more than a third […]

Publicis Groupe will acquire CitrusAd, an Australian retail media company, and place it within the Epsilon data business, the company announced on Thursday. CitrusAd’s direct connections to retailers – and the first-party data partnerships that come along with those connections – were a draw. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. CitrusAd is a competitor […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Boom Or Bust?  New forecasts from Dentsu, WARC and others indicate the ad business is in for a boom year in 2021. GroupM projects the US ad market to grow by 15%, and global growth forecasts range from 6.4% (Magna) up to 10.4% (Dentsu). […]

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Dentsu-owned Merkle has acquired LiveArea, an experiential commerce agency, for $250 million, the companies said Tuesday. Merkle will add LiveArea’s 590 employees to its roster. LiveArea works with retailers and brands, though mostly retailers, on commerce and marketing. It provides design and creative strategy, but its primary offering integrates customer data with ecommerce tech such […]

Twitter is integrating the CrossInstall mobile-only DSP it acquired last year with MoPub’s ad exchange platform in a push to woo more performance-based marketers. CrossInstall, which came along with its own bidder and proprietary creative ad formats, has been renamed MoPub Acquire and its team will now be part of MoPub, after having operated as […]

“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 Kerri Driscoll, VP of marketing strategy at Merkle. At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced its intention to put additional privacy parameters in place for email with its Mail Privacy […]

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cruella’s Revenge Inflation isn’t only for consumer goods apparently. Disney’s ad sales team has wrapped up its upfront negotiations with double-digit CPM increases, a huge win for the network, Jason Lynch reports for Adweek. Disney CEO Bob Chapek said at a Credit Suisse conference, […]

Advertising revenue in the United States is expected to increase by 22% to $279 billion in 2021, a sign that the industry has turned a corner following the uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to GroupM’s mid-year forecast released Thursday. Digital advertising revenue will grow even faster, by 33%, in 2021 – building on last […]

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“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Nielsen’s recent agreement with Roku is poised to accelerate the growth of addressable TV advertising. And with Disney’s recent announcement that it plans to automate more than half of its business and make the majority of its inventory – both linear and digital […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. All Organic Things are starting to look up at Publicis Groupe. After getting battered by the COVID-19 pandemic, the holding company saw a return to organic revenue growth in Q1 as marketers were confident enough to restart projects, especially in the US. The Wall […]

IPG’s marketing intelligence firm Kinesso has hired Dr. Femi Olu-Lafe as the SVP of culture and inclusion. Olu–Lafe was brought on to push the needle on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across Kinesso and its sister IPG companies, Acxiom and Matterkind.  Olu-Lafe – previously a senior leader and DEI consultant at YSC Consulting and […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Andy Fisher, head of Merkury Advanced TV at Merkle. With the deprecation of third-party cookies and its implications on media targeting, advertisers are increasingly looking for opportunities to leverage both their first-party data and […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Grabbing Share Watch out, Google and Facebook – Amazon is catching up. According to eMarketer, Amazon’s share of the digital ad market in the United States grew to 10.3% last year, up from 7.8% in 2019, The Wall Street Journal reports. It’s expected to make […]

Magna’s US ad spend forecast released Wednesday paints an optimistic picture for the ad industry, following the uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The IPG agency said that a quicker than anticipated economic recovery, supported by a new stimulus package, a decline in COVID rates and return to normal sporting events, will boost ad spending […]