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Chrome Joins The Private Relay Race; Did Snapchat Miss Its Shot?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Mis-Addressed Google Chrome will reintroduce a way to disable tracking by IP address by giving users a toggle to block IP tracking. If that sounds familiar, it’s because the product works not unlike Apple’s Private Relay – and will have a similar impact on […]
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How The World’s Largest Advertisers Fared This Year; Netflix Takes A Tiny Step Toward Transparency
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. View From The Top The world’s largest advertisers have … not changed much in the past year. The top five advertisers – Amazon, L’Oréal, Alibaba, Procter & Gamble and Samsung – held their positions in the latest Ad Age World’s Largest Advertisers ranking. […]
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Publishers Grapple With The “Post-Social” Web; The Plight Of The 25-Year-Old Media Planner
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The ‘Post-Social’ Web The writing is on the wall: Big Tech is breaking up with news, and the traffic publishers used to rely on from search and social media isn’t coming back any time soon. Last week, Google cut about 40 positions from […]
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Should Meta Stop Trying To Make Reels Happen?; Competition And Privacy Are Two Sides Of One Coin
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. For Reels? Meta is struggling to convince advertisers that Reels can be a valuable marketing channel, The Information reports. Since Reels is more of a branding play, it doesn’t fit neatly within the broader Facebook and Instagram flywheel, which primarily centers on direct […]
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Right Place, Right Time?; Amazon Makes Ads On Its Dime For The Sake Of Prime
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Talking Shop Two critical ad revenue growth areas for Google are YouTube and shopping ads – which means shopping on YouTube is a priority, to say the least. The newest feature for YouTube shopping is a product display control so accounts can display a […]
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TV Inventory Keeps Dwindling; The MFA And DEI Mixup
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rare Wares TV inventory is on track to become an even scarcer resource. US television (linear and streaming combined) will likely lose almost a quarter of its ad inventory volume over the next four years, according to media prognosticator Brian Wieser, writing at […]
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Facebook Doesn’t Want Your Money; The Times Backtracks On In-App Programmatic
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Not Buying It There’s been a burst of reports about new subscription-based, ad-free social media products. (Looking at you, Facebook.) It’s easy for these announcements to get caught up in trends like the pivot to subscriptions or revenue diversification. But it is not […]
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Low And Behold, Joshua Lowcock Is Out AT UM; TikTok Is ‘A News Wasteland’
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Ad-tagonists Joshua Lowcock, a longtime leader at agency UM Worldwide, where he most recently served as global chief media officer, exited on Friday. His departure comes only a few weeks after UM’s chief privacy and responsibility officer, Arielle Garcia, left the agency, […]
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Should Humans Get Out Of The Way?; The Scope Of The Carbon Problem
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ghosts In The Machine The rise of machine-learning-powered ad products from Google and Meta is changing the performance marketer’s job from a hybrid creative tactician, media hound and command pilot to, well, someone who just feeds data, text prompts and raw creative assets […]
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A List Of … Demand Gens; Fake News Or Breaking News?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Demand More Google has started its global rollout of Demand Gen, a machine-learning ad product launched in beta over the summer. Demand Gen is akin to Performance Max, Google’s most prominent machine learning-based ad product … which is a euphemistic way to say […]
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Homing In On Digital Out-Of-Home; Alt Currencies Aren’t All They’re Cracked Up To Be
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Out Of Home, Out Of Mind? Data-driven out-of-home media hasn’t taken off, in part, because most buyers don’t see it as a channel for generating mass reach and conversions. But the fact that people don’t feel bombarded by ads in the world around them […]
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Call It Consumer Health; The Rise(-ish) Of The Media Agency
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Clean Bill Of Health? Everyone knows the infamous anecdote of a young woman’s early pregnancy being spotted and outed by a Target circular back in the early days of advertising-oriented predictive analytics. But big retailers still casually profile customers using a mix of […]
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The Power Of Search Compels Google; DTC’s Profitability Plight
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Search For A Replacement The Google antitrust trial allows for a great deal of cynical theater. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testifies with, of course, exactly what Microsoft wants from the trial. Sridhar Ramaswamy, former Google search product chief who started an ads-free search engine, […]
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TikTok Is Taking Down Forties; The Cost Cap Question
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pushing Forty TikTok is pushing hard for adoption of its on-platform shopping product, particularly in North America. Last month, it introduced a major Shopify backend integration, which lets brands plug influencers as affiliates and includes a payment system so users can buy without […]
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The FTC’s Hunt For Nessie; Publishers Await The Return Of Meta Referral Traffic
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Nessie Lives The FTC is accusing Amazon of using Project Nessie, a secret algorithm, to fix prices in its favor and monopolize the retail market, Ars Technica reports. Amazon matched discount prices from rivals, spurring other retailers to slash their prices, too. This […]
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Wait, Social Media Costs Money Now?; Studios Choose Ads
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Is Free Social A ZIRP? Social media is free. Well, it’s supposed to be, anyway. That’s the point. All your friends join, it’s free fun, and rather than paying money you get served with ads. But that could change. On Monday, Android Authority […]
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Apple Opens Up (To Devour) Podcast Subscrips; Roblox Is Out Of The Blocks
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Apple’s Bite Apple will now let paid subscription apps (think The Economist or meditation app Calm) offer audio content exclusively for their subscribers, a trendy tactic in Podcast Land. Spotify has a similar idea, but it partners with the subscription service Patreon. And […]
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Disney Premieres Anti-Password Sharing; No Sense Battling The Bots
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What’s The Password? The Mouse House meant what it said about banning password sharing. Starting Nov. 1, Disney+ will bounce subscribers off shared accounts in Canada, with other markets sure to follow, CNET reports. The company sent an email last week alerting Canadian […]
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IAB Tech Lab Enters The Sandbox; The Google Trial Behind Closed Doors
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Line In The Sandbox The Chrome Privacy Sandbox was hyperactive when it launched in 2019. (Remember the sudden appearance of all those bird names?) That was back when the deadline to remove third-party cookies was Q2 2022. But in 2021, Google Chrome […]
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Snap’s Uphill Struggle For Revenue Beyond Advertising; Can Privacy Save Money?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Snap Decision All sorts of non-advertising companies have recently launched ad businesses – and vice versa. Companies that rely heavily on ad revenue, including Meta, Twitter and Snap, want to diversify their one-pillar businesses. But diversifying an ad business is much harder than the […]
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To In-House Or Not To In-House?; The Trade Orgs Take A Crack At MFA
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Buy, Build Or Borrow? When should brands in-house their media and when should they turn to an agency? Marketing consultant Alex Greifeld posts about this conundrum in her newsletter, No Best Practices. While practically every major brand needs advertising services in some way, […]
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Bringing Big Tech To Heel By Having Small Tech; Was DEI A ZIRP?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trade And Trade-Offs Tech regulation proponents in the US Senate traveled to Belgium last month, where they discussed their EU counterparts’ relative success “bringing Big Tech to heel,” The Information reports. Paul Tang, a Dutch parliamentary rep, said Americans test issues in protracted […]
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Amazon Prime Shall Soon Have Ads; Programmatic Has Delicate Dynamics
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Primed For Ads Amazon Prime is the latest streaming service that will add ads, Variety reports. Early next year, ad units will start to appear in Prime Video shows and movies for subscribers in the US, UK, Canada and Germany. Though people will have […]
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Hello? Is Anybody There?; Who Needs Friends When You Have Frenemies
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rage Against The ML Google and Meta are all-in on machine-learning-based ad products that assign creative and optimization controls to the platform. But tools like Google’s Performance Max and Meta’s Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns have been rushed onstage – and they’re not ready for […]
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For Netflix, Sharing Isn’t Caring; Microsoft’s Mobile Game Revenue Reckoning
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Thanks For Not Sharing Non-advertising companies can end up with strange new incentive structures when they start collecting ad dollars. For instance, the more Netflix’s ad revenue grows, the greater the internal pressure to crack down on password sharing. Previously, Netflix could turn […]
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Google Admits To Search Auction Gouging; Instacart’s Growthery Story
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Price Of Admission The discovery process for Google’s federal antitrust trial is already yielding some painful admissions when it comes to reinforcing the industry’s suspicions about Google. Jerry Dischler, VP of Google’s ads business, testified Monday that Google tweaks its search ad […]
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Can Apple Have Its Cake And Eat It, Too?; Instacart’s IPO Reveal
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Apple’s Sauce As Apple wades deeper into the advertising industry sea with its own ad network and attribution system, the company might have to navigate a tricky riptide if it upsets iPhone customers or attracts a regulator’s ire. For instance, Apple doesn’t apply […]
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Disney Might Sell ABC; X Turns To Google For More Programmatic Ads
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Up For Sale Disney is considering selling ABC and its eight local stations. Nexstar Media Group is a possible buyer, Bloomberg reports. Disney CEO Bob Iger recently said he’s open to selling some of the company’s TV networks. Linear is a loss leader […]
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Nielsen Switches CEOs; Why Advertisers Can’t Save Twitter
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Thank You, Next Amid all its other TV measurement drama, Nielsen is swapping CEOs, Ad Age reports. David Kenny, CEO since 2018, will be succeeded by Karthik Rao, leader of the company’s audience measurement unit. (Nielsen split into three divisions during a business reorg […]
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Will There Be A Yahoo Renaissance?; The Generative AI Winner May Be Adobe
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Yah Or Nah? Can Yahoo be saved? That’s a question you probably thought you’d never hear again. But it’s relevant once more with Yahoo’s re-re-rebirth under private equity firm Apollo and Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone, former chief of Tinder and CBS Interactive, reports […]