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You Bought It, But Don’t Own It; The News On No More News
In today’s newsletter: Users’ rare anime collections disappear as Sony consolidates Funimation and Crunchyroll; Instagram and Threads stop promoting political content; and why Fortnite is winning the metaverse.
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MFA Mania Is Already Cooling; Why The Big Get Bigger (And Bigger)
In today’s newsletter: Buyers are relatively blasé about made-for-advertising sites; Meta is riding high, having fully adapted to ATT, while Google’s search dominance is under threat; and Publicis Groupe reports strong growth.
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Uber, Roblox And The Gray Lady Walk Into A Bar; Give TV A Sporting Chance
In today’s newsletter: Uber, the New York Times and Roblox all have ads businesses, but in different flavors; Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery plan to launch a sports streaming service; and Amazon gets introspective in response to competition from Temu, Shein and TikTok.
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YouTube Touts Its Creators And Subs; Clean Up On Aisle Floor
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. OurTube Neal Mohan published his annual letter this week – although, this time he’s chief of YouTube, following Susan Wojcicki’s exit last year. Mohan shares an interesting peek at YouTube’s long-term priorities. For example, although he talks about YouTube Shorts, the format isn’t as […]
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The FTC Gets Its Second Crack At Kochava; The Deprecation Vacation
In today’s newsletter: The FTC is suing Kochava (again); marketers are complacent about third-party cookie deprecation; and Publicis Health pays the piper for its role in the opioid epidemic.
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Nielsen Sues VideoAmp; Rembrand Dials Up Product Placements
In today’s newsletter: Nielsen sues VideoAmp alleging patent infringement; Rembrand’s virtual product placements hit social media; and the MOW, CMA and publishers cry foul over the Chrome Privacy Sandbox’s Related Website Sets.
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Netflix Already Won The Streaming Race; Can AI Help With That?
In today’s newsletter: Netflix is the only profitable streaming service; Meta’s automated support software frustrates advertisers; and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission may designate Amazon a “distributor of goods.”
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The CMA Has Its Say; The IAB Probes The Privacy Sandbox, Too
In today’s newsletter: The CMA comes out with an updated evaluation of Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox proposals; the IAB talks Privacy Sandbox with Google; and Temu may be a shell company, but its ad spend keeps skyrocketing.
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Selling The New Internet On The Internet; Here Come The Olds
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Arc Of History The Browser Company is backed by tech elite like Instacart CEO Fidji Simo, Medium founder Ev Williams, Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. TBC makes a browser called Arc, and this week it launched […]
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Amazon Turns The CTV Supply Spigot; A Mess In The Sandbox
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Prime Time Ads have arrived on Prime Video. But audiences have just about had it with streaming services that nickel-and-dime them, The Wall Street Journal reports. Instead of forking over an additional $3 per month to avoid ads, many have canceled their Amazon […]
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Apple Passes DMA Costs Back To Developers; Ad Fraud And AI-Generated Obituaries
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Reg-U-Later Apple has a history of not quite breaching antitrust rulings, but blithely flaunting orders. In 2022, for example, a Dutch court ruled Apple must allow payment alternatives. Apple paid 5 million euros per week in noncompliance fines over months. It eventually acquiesced […]
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Alphonso Folks Get Back On Board; How Netflix Evolves Through Crisis
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Board Games The LG Ads board of directors has three new members. Or, more accurately, two previous board members – Alphonso co-founders Ashish Chordia and Lampros Kalampoukas, who were fired as part of an orchestrated corporate coup in late December 2022 – have […]
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Netflix Is On A Content Licensing Tear; G/O Media Seeks To Sell Some Sites
Netflix is licensing yet more content from the coffers of cable TV, while G/O Media is selling its portfolio for parts.
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Netflix Enters The Live ‘Sports’ Arena; Google Shills Fake Weight Loss Gummies
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ring Airer Netflix is paying more than $5 billion for the rights to livestream “WWE Raw,” Variety reports. The 10-year deal is effective starting next January and represents Netflix’s biggest push into live content. Following a live sports debut with its “Netflix Cup” […]
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Big Tech Braces For The EU’s DMA; Google Cloud Drops Exit Fees (If You Exit, Too)
Crunchtime The EU’s Digital Markets Act has teeth – and now it’s biting, TechCrunch reports. The DMA regulates anti-competitive practices within “gatekeeper platforms” that have an annual turnover of at least 7.5 billion euros. Meta, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and ByteDance all tick that box. Gatekeepers have until March to ensure their operations in the EU […]
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A Temu Patent Lawsuit That Isn’t A Novelty; Amazon Puts The Shine On Prime
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Commerce Copycats The Wild Man Drinking Company (which makes a novelty item called the Krak’in used for shotgunning beers) filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Temu last week (H/t @Sean Frank, CEO of the wallet brand Ridge). Why’s that interesting? Temu frames itself as […]
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Location Data Brokers, Beware The FTC; Advertising Lifts All Boats
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Don’t Look For Me The FTC isn’t slowing its crackdown on location data brokers. On Thursday, it issued a complaint against InMarket for failing to obtain informed consent from users on its own apps and third-party apps that use InMarket’s SDK before collecting […]
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Netflix Shops For AVOD Subscribers; Post-Cookie Panic Sets In
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What’s In Store? Netflix’s latest effort to push ads onto subscribers is – you guessed it – a retail bundle. The company is piloting a new package deal with French retailer Carrefour, Bloomberg reports. Customers in the French cities of Bordeaux and Rouen […]
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Anything You Can Do AI Can Do Better; The In-Housing Trend That Stuck
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pining For AI Google laid off nearly 1,000 employees last week – but the hits keep coming. It’s also scrapping hundreds of jobs in its ad sales division, Business Insider reports. The headcount reduction is a byproduct of restructuring its ad sales team, […]
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Generative AI’s Debacle Of The Day; TV’s Awkward Resellers?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cannot Fulfill This Request Generative AI products continue to fail in obviously foreseeable ways. The latest: Amazon listings that appear to have used OpenAI’s ChatGPT to generate product names and descriptions feature an identical error message, The Verge reports. Who doesn’t want to […]
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Disney Touts Its Clean Room Chops; Old Hollywood Can’t Work New Media
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. AdExchanger is taking the day off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Our daily news roundup will return on Tues., Jan. 16. The Clean Slate Disney has been talking up its data clean room at CES. It now has 140 demand customers, and […]
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Learnings On Ad Loads; Take Your Bets On Programmatic Gaming
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pod Patrol The CTV ad experience is a hot topic at CES this week. Streamers and brands are exploring interactive ad units, while platforms are still trying to determine the optimal streaming ad load. But no matter how advertisers prefer to engage viewers, […]
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Why Machine Learning Loves Metadata; Putting The Brakes On Data Brokers
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The New Creative Controls Does “alt_copy_copy2_brand_red_hold” mean anything to you? That’s the way most creative units and product ads are titled, and any associated metadata would likely be the brand’s name and the banner ad size. Meh. But a generative AI bot could […]
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Hypha Hype; Amazon Prime Video Unwraps Affordable Ads
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Panel Discussion Bad news for Nielsen: Another panel has entered the arena. Samba TV is teaming up with HyphaMetrics to launch a panel for measuring video viewership across linear, streaming and other digital formats, Ad Age reports. HyphaMetrics plans to use Samba TV’s […]
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Privacy Sandbox Push And Pull; Standardize RMNs? They’re Practically From Different Planets
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tough Cookies Some industry observers (including AdExchanger) have deliberated on The Trade Desk’s apparent withdrawal from – and direct antagonism with – the Chrome Privacy Sandbox. Bill Simmons, TTD’s VP of product, penned a column in December for The Current, which is The […]
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GroupM’s New Streaming Ad Initiative; Programmers Place Their Bets On Programmatic
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Take Initiative Meet yet another TV ad standards initiative. GroupM announced the Ad Innovation Accelerator on Thursday, which it hopes could lead to more nonstandard streaming ad formats – and technical standards for those formats to make sure they can run on any […]
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Can Podcast Advertising Find Second Gear?; No Escaping The Bundle
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pod One Out Podcast advertising is in a tough spot. Although ad sellers are cautiously optimistic about 2024, as more listeners tune in and programmatic audio grows (albeit slowly), podcast advertising overall has been stuck in first gear for years, Digiday reports. What […]
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Apple Services Revenue Is Under Fire; Streaming Enters Its Next Battle
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. In Services To Who? Apple’s Services revenue – made up of its subscription businesses and the triple-tithe fee on iOS developer earnings – is at risk in 2024, writes the Financial Times. Apple’s Services biz kept overall growth pumping despite a slowdown in […]
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Prime Video Is Going AVOD; The Chart Toppers Of 2023
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Primed For Interruption Amazon is finalizing details for Prime Video ads. Commercials come to Prime in the US on January 29, followed by the UK, Germany and Canada in February, Deadline reports. “Prime Video movies and TV shows will include limited advertisements,” reads […]
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Google’s AIs Decide To Handle A/Bs; Ended, The Streaming Wars Have
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The AI A/B Google Ads industry liaison Ginny Marvin was called out during a recent Q&A session hosted on an SEO-focused Discord server. SEO folks had spotted instances where Google clearly A/B tested different ad copy options without a brand’s awareness or approval, Search […]