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The MFA Economy; Will Reddit Ever Not Be Reddit?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. More Like Fixalate, Amiright? Pixalate just published its October made-for-advertising (MFA) report. And it isn’t pulling punches. Most MFA reports don’t detail revenue contributions by specific media companies or SSPs. Or, if they do, it’s just to pick on Google. Pixalate does pick […]
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Google’s Temporary Opt-Out; Finding Your Fans
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Maxxed Out Google will temporarily allow opt-outs for its search partner network, GSP, which serves ads for searches on non-Google sites, Adweek reports. Google is responding to a report last week by Adalytics, an ad tech auditing outfit. Adalytics demonstrated how Google advertisers […]
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Blue-Chip Or Green-Chip Agency Accounts; Google’s Epic Mistake
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Win Is A Win? Blue-chip accounts are coveted on Madison Ave, but it’s impossible to tell which clients are really the key wins for the agencies involved. Winning the McDonald’s or Coca-Cola account comes with cachet and solid earned media, but the […]
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When AAA Is The New Three-Letter Acronym; A Bundle Of Exhaustion
Under The Hood When Gary Numan sang, “Here in my car, I feel safest of all,” he didn’t know about the rapacious data collection practices of modern-day automakers. Ars Technica reports that, late last week, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) sent letters to 14 car companies, including Ford, GM, Honda and Hyundai, asking pointed questions about […]
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Filling The Black Friday Sales Funnel; Traffic-Starved News Pubs Run To Reddit
Lowering efficiency in exchange for volume can build up a funnel of potential customers who are retargeted with deals on Black Friday.
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TikTok’s Pay-To-Play Problem Is That It Isn’t; Brands Relearn Buy One, Get One
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Organic Farming TikTok has had the same two business priorities for years. One, to develop an ecommerce marketplace on the app and, two, to create a conversion-based ad platform akin to Google, Amazon or Meta. TikTok has struggled mightily on both fronts. Its […]
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Will 2024 Be The Year Of Addressable TV?; The New Cable Bundle Is Groceries
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Addressable Auspices Traditional TV advertisers are hesitant to try addressable products because they’re expensive and hard to scale. But programmatic TV ad buying is making addressable more accessible, said Sara Wallace, FreeWheel’s senior director of product management, speaking at an event on Wednesday […]
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Started Slow But Getting FAST; None Of Your Business Is Back To Business
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Think FAST Free ad-supported TV (FAST) is more than just traditional TV streamed over the internet. From a marketing perspective, FAST is a complement to both TV and streaming, says Scott Reich, SVP of programming at Paramount-owned Pluto TV, speaking at Paramount Advertising’s […]
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A New Industry Trade Org Is Born; Google Versus Publishers
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Addressing Addressable Say hello to yet another trade org that wants to address the current woes of TV advertising: Go Addressable. The industry initiative that TV and broadband distributors pushed is now a nonprofit organization, NextTV reports. Paramount is the first programmer to join […]
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The Next RMN Is Now Boarding; How Private Is Private?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. United We Target United Airlines may join the retail media network runway, reports The Wall Street Journal. The appeal is obvious. Companies with a sliver of attention during a taxi ride, or even an elevator ride, boast of their “captive audiences” – and that’s nothing […]
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Google Spills More Secrets; The Unblockables
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Share Tactics Another secret Google revenue-sharing deal was revealed during antitrust testimony. Google head of global partnerships Don Harrison disclosed during the Epic Games vs. Google trial that the standard 15% fee doesn’t apply to Spotify. Spotify only pays Google 4% of subscription […]
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Chrome’s Deprecation Trial – No Ad Tech Allowed; Streamers Shed More Content
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trial And Error Here’s a mouthful: The Google Chrome team has announced a “deprecation trial” so some third-party vendors can retain legacy services that depend on third-party cookies when cookie deprecation happens next year. What does that mean in layman’s terms? Vendors can continue […]
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Holiday Angst For Ecommerce Advertisers; Where Are News Readers Nowadays?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Black Friday Indeed Black Friday is almost here. And while all advertisers are always nervous this time of year, ecommerce advertisers are really tweaking. First, there’s the macro-gloom. Credit is tight, prices are inflated and retailers warn of a consumer spending downturn. On […]
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Paying For Time In The Mobile Arcade; You Think A Person Wrote This?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Zero-Sum Game Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive, the video game developer that makes Grand Theft Auto, bemoaned the lack of pricing power for gaming properties during the company’s earnings report this week, eXputer reports. Zelnick believes video games should be priced […]
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Amazon 3, Social Media 0; The Power Of Premium
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Amazon Wins Again Last week, ecommerce market research company Marketplace Pulse disclosed that Amazon advertisers can serve ads directly on Facebook and Instagram using Amazon in-app checkout. This week, The Information reports Amazon has landed a similar partnership with Snapchat. Oh, and Amazon […]
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Google’s 36% Fee; Wait, Did “No Ads” Mean I Can’t Buy Ads?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Apple’s Bite We already knew that Google shells out a heck of a lot for its default iOS search status – and now we know how much. Google pays Apple a 36% (!) cut of the total revenue it makes from searches conducted on […]
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Dead Links Ding YouTube Campaign Reporting; AVOD Bundles Come Alive
The Missing Link Log another demerit for YouTube transparency. Four buyers say their post-campaign reports for YouTube Select are riddled with broken links, Adweek reports. Google introduced YouTube Select in 2020 as a way for buyers to purchase premium YouTube inventory, including top-performing channels and YouTube TV. YouTube sends buyers post-campaign reports with links they […]
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I’ll Start Dieting … Never; Why Brand Safety Is A Danger To The News
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Sweet Tooth In an alternate universe, perhaps, Chrome met its original deadline, and advertisers are 18 months beyond third-party cookies. But here we are, two can-kicks down the road, and some industry observers think Chrome won’t make its 2024 deadline either, Insider reports. […]
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Can Retail’s Long Tail Tie Together?; Don’t Text And Drive
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Long-Tail Retail Walmart Connect and Target Roundel are the two retail media players with the biggest adoption outside of Amazon, according to a recent Digiday survey. But both lag far behind Amazon’s 76% adoption rate. Twenty-four percent of those surveyed used Walmart Connect’s […]
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Why Google’s Small AI Creative Step Is A Big Leap; The News Is … Not Good
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Black Boxes All The Way Down Unsurprisingly, Google’s first AI-generated creative, which forms custom imagery and copywriting by prompt, was built into Performance Max, Google’s AI-operated advertising product. In a way, creative generation is the black box inside the black box of campaign optimization, […]
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Google’s Helpful Content Update Hits UGC; Programmatic Ads On Netflix: Yay Or Nay?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. UGC Meets AI-GC, And It’s Awkward In September, Google announced what it calls a “helpful content update” – aka a search algorithm change to favor sites with superior user experiences. One part of the update was that Google will target AI-generated content, particularly […]
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Kochava And The FTC Head Back To Court; Troubles Abound For GroupM
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Location, Location, Location The FTC’s consumer privacy case against Kochava is back on the docket. Last year, the consumer watchdog accused the mobile app analytics platform of selling users’ geolocation data in an open market. However, the presiding judge threw out the FTC’s […]
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Google AdSense Changes Publisher Payouts; The Costs (And Gains) Of Generative AI
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Making An Impression Starting early next year, Google AdSense publishers will see their payouts switch from a per click metric to per impression, the first change to its revenue sharing model in 20 years. Paying per impression is the industry standard for how […]
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Google And Apple Lay Their Attribution Plans; The Holdco Holdup
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Whoever Attributes, Wins When people refer to the control that Apple and Google exert over the mobile ecosystem, they usually focus on onerous app store fees. Which, okay, fair enough. But “there’s a looming, more subtle, and much more esoteric form of control […]
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Journos On Wall Street; IP Address Deprecation Means More Disruption
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Church And Stock News publishers have had some business model challenges lately. That’s not news to anyone. But one startup hopes to avoid the news industry’s advertiser drop-off and subscription malaise. The startup, called Hunterbrook, will commission news stories from journalists, while an […]
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A Recipe To Cut SEO Crap; Who Dedupes The Dedupers?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cook The Books Google is warning recipe bloggers to post pertinent information (which is to say, the ingredients and recipe) in visible, accessible parts of their site or risk being down-ranked in search results. “To me, this seems like some sort of warning […]
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GroupM North America Says Goodbye To Kirk McDonald; Meta’s Gambit Pays Off
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Heads Will Roll CEO Kirk McDonald is out at GroupM North America, Insider reports. WPP’s revenue growth tumbled in the US this year, which the company blamed on tech clients curtailing their ad spend. GroupM North America has fared particularly poorly, putting GroupM, […]
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Performance Max Adds Search Themes; BuzzFeed Selling Complex Illustrates Digital Media Woes
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Variation On A Theme Google launched a new Performance Max search feature called “search themes,” a rare opportunity to learn from the black box that is PMax campaigns. Search themes are broad terms that can inform targeting, even if the company doesn’t bid […]
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Only The CMA Can Kill The Cookie; AMC Makes Linear TV More Programmatic
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Another Cookie Delay? The third-party cookie might receive another stay of execution – and this time it wouldn’t be Google pushing the deadline. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) reiterated that Google won’t be allowed to kill cookies next year unless the […]
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Amazon UnBoxes Its Latest Ads Tools; TV’s Ad Viewability Problem
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Help Me, Help Me Amazon announced ad platform upgrades at its annual UnBoxed conference, just ahead of quarterly earnings today. Like Google, Amazon is now a content fortress with its own cloud, which means that when it makes ad tech updates, the result […]