Artificial Intelligence

Instreamatic releases a product for connected TV that generates multiple audio variations for the same creative.

Is it possible to get through an earnings call in 2023 without talking about AI? Apparently not! AppLovin spent most of its Q2 earnings call on Wednesday hyping Axon 2.0, the latest version of its AI-based ad tech platform, which the company released last quarter. Axon uses predictive machine learning to target app-install ads to […]

PubMatic reported meager YOY revenue growth in Q2, up just a smidge to $63.3 million from $63 million in Q2 of last year.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pubs Crawl Publishers are more selective about ad tech vendors nowadays after suffering through incidents involving sequential liability, Digiday reports. Publishers are more discerning about ad tech but don’t expect much to change following the MediaMath bankruptcy, like the Sizmek bankruptcy before that […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Slow Slide WPP reported lackluster Q2 results during its earnings call on Friday.  The agency holding company saw a “shortfall” in the US, accounting for about 37% of WPP’s biz, which “took us a little bit by surprise,” CEO Mark Read told […]

Integral Ad Science (IAS) beat its earnings and revenue estimates for the second quarter despite belt-tightening among advertisers and fallout from the recent TrueView scandal.

Buying AI ad tech startup Scibids is a logical move for DoubleVerify as it continues to move beyond measurement into media activation and campaign optimization.

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Telling, a new podcast media agency and consultancy, is zeroing in on performance marketing in the UK and European markets.

There was so much growth across nearly every area of Meta’s business (with the exception of Reality Labs, its R&D division for the metaverse, which lost $3.7 billion in Q2) that Q2 was actually rather boring. And so, instead of ratting off more stats, here are five takeaways from Meta’s Q2 call in case you missed it.

Organic revenue growth for IPG sank 1.7% YOY, with a 2.5% drop in the US. The holding company said a weakened tech sector is partly to blame.

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Agency holding company Omnicom’s going all in on generative AI – a topic that dominated its earnings call Tuesday.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pour One Out For Pub Tech During the heady days of gonzo social traffic and zero-dollar interest rates, publishers were launching their own software businesses. But that cottage industry has practically disappeared without so much as a whimper. Vox Media, one of the […]

The Washington Post is experimenting with a variety of large language models–but setting boundaries and guidelines to keep them in check.

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The Washington Post is looking to capitalize on a resurgence in advertiser interest in news content, and the AI trend, to create new opportunities for brand collaborations.

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Phrasee, a UK-based SaaS platform that uses generative AI to create, test and optimize content for large enterprise companies, has run experiments on its customers’ content for the past eight years to figure out what drives the best performance.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The AdExchanger team is celebrating our independence with a long weekend off! The daily news roundup will return on Wednesday, July 5. Maxxed Mike Ryan, head of ecommerce insights at Smarter Ecommerce, posted a Twitter thread about the relative performance of Performance Max, […]

Machine learning tech is consuming open web ad budgets as big walled gardens consolidate media, data, tech and audiences inside their own fortresses.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Chasing Influencers The creator economy spending frenzy that began in 2020 has fizzled. Investor funds ran dry, which means most of the startups and businesses built on short-term platform creator funds and VC rounds are unlikely to find a happy exit. “It was the […]

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The 70th annual Cannes Lions moved faster than ever to match the speed of the convergence of convergences happening in the industry. Here are five themes that stood out from the event.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rain or Shine Magna nudged its global ad spend forecast downward in its latest report, released over the weekend, but you can save the drama for your llama. The slide only amounts to a 0.2% drop.  Magna expects that ad revenue will grow […]

Everyone is infusing their tech with generative AI, from startups to Salesforce to Google. Understand the throughlines of these product updates. Plus, the challenge of finding publisher playmates in the Privacy Sandbox.

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Martech holding company The Brandtech Group acquired Pencil, a generative AI platform for ads, on Thursday.

Google made six AI-related announcements in one day, including the ability to use images in Bard prompts, additions to its Search Generative Experience, a virtual clothing try-on feature and two new AI-powered video campaigns for YouTube.