The Enslopification Of Pinterest; Stagwell Beats WPP On Growth
Pinterest is being overrun with low-effort generative AI slop. Plus, Stagwell partially credits its 14% growth last year to – you guessed it – AI.
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GroupM Is Up, But WPP Is Down; Why Brands Love A Breakup
WPP shares dipped to a four-year low on after posting its 2024 earnings results. Plus: How brands are courting virality.
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IPG Was Down In Q4, Plans To Restructure Before The Omnicom Merger
Like Kendrick Lamar during the Super Bowl halftime show, Interpublic Group CEO Philippe Krakowsky had a message for all the haters out there: the impending Omnicom merger won’t affect IPG’s ability to do business in the meantime.
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PODCAST: The Big StoryChrome's Global Cookie Consent, and Nielsen and Paramount Make Nice
The Google Chrome team is getting closer to deciding on its cookie consent mechanism. And Paramount resolves its four-month standoff with Nielsen, as the mechanics behind currency change forever.
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Publicis Doesn’t Mind Being Dethroned; Whether It’s The Cloud Or Ads, It’s All Just Google
Publicis looks to capitalize on potential fallout from the Omnicom/IPG merger; Google Cloud is seeing an influx of ad sales talent; and Spotify advises investors to be patient with its growing programmatic ads biz.
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Omnicom Is Getting Ready For A Post-Merger ‘Streamlining’
Why worry about AI replacing jobs when a megamerger might make them redundant?
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Buyers Are Glad Nielsen Is Moving Away From Panel-Only Ratings
Ad buyers agree that Nielsen’s decision to pivot from panel-only ratings is a step in the right direction for TV ad measurement. But some also suggest it may be too late for Nielsen to recover the ground it ceded to competitors.
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Nielsen’s Long-Awaited Measurement Offering Is Ready For The Upfronts
Nielsen told ad buyers that it plans to drop panel-only ratings later this year. The decision signals an inflection point in media measurement that publishers and buyers have both been waiting for.
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Inside Criteo’s Three-Pronged Strategy For Retail Media Success
Criteo’s Brian Gleason shared how it is working with agencies to capitalize on curation and measurement opportunities in retail media and CTV.
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PODCAST: AdExchanger TalksWhat The World Looks Like To Smaller Agencies
It’s not easy competing for business with massive holding companies (which are only getting more massive). But the Omnicom-IPG deal “also creates opportunities for the rest of us,” says Remy Stiles, North America CEO of programmatic agency Kepler.
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How AudienceMix Is Mixing Up The Data Sales Business
AudienceMix, a new curation startup, aims to make it more cost effective to mix and match different audience segments using only the data brands need to execute their campaigns.
Broadsign Acquires Place Exchange As The DOOH Category Hits Its Stride
On Tuesday, digital out-of-home (DOOH) ad tech startup Place Exchange was acquired by Broadsign, another out-of-home SSP.
Meta’s Ad Platform Is Going Haywire In Time For The Holidays (Again)
For the uninitiated, “Glitchmas” is our name for what’s become an annual tradition when, from between roughly late October through November, Meta’s ad platform just seems to go bonkers.
Closing Arguments Are Done In The US v. Google Ad Tech Case
The publisher-focused DOJ v. Google ad tech antitrust trial is finished. A judge will now decide the fate of Google’s sell-side ad tech business.
Wall Street Wants To Know What The Programmatic Drama Is About
Competitive tensions and ad tech drama have flared all year. And this drama has rippled out into the investor circle, as evident from a slew of recent ad tech company earnings reports.
Omnicom Allegedly Pivoted A Chunk Of Its Q3 Spend From The Trade Desk To Amazon
Two sources at ad tech platforms that observe programmatic bidding patterns said they’ve seen Omnicom agencies shifting spend from The Trade Desk to Amazon DSP in Q3. The Trade Desk denies any such shift.