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Will Claw-Backed Pubs Hold A Grudge?; Advertisers Want Show-Level Info Again
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 […]
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WPP Must Bridge A ‘Shortfall’ In The US; Amazon Opens Whole Foods To The Whole SKU
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 […]
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Will The Real CMO Please Stand Up?; A Little Search Goes A Long Way
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Visionary, Vision Is Scary CMO tenures are shrinking. Confidence in CMO decision-making is down. Yet the demands on the CMO are expanding and growing more difficult. “To add insult to injury, we’ve seen an overall lack of … competence, perhaps?” writes Chris Gadek, […]
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Retargeter Who? Criteo’s All Commerce Now; Trying To Be YouTubeTok
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. CMax, LOL Criteo reported earnings on Wednesday. It wasn’t a blockbuster – gross revenue ticked down from $495 million in Q2 2022 to $469 million this year – but Criteo clawed back to about even in terms of profitability after dipping into the […]
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Europe Blocks Data Sharing To The US; America Blocks Data Sharing To China
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Europe, You’re Down Meta may ask for specific consent to use data for advertising purposes in the EU, The Wall Street Journal reports. After GDPR became law, Facebook began requiring European users to allow the platform to use data for ad purposes by […]
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How Amazon’s Tough Bets Help Its Ad Biz; Can’t Spell YouTube Without “You”
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. How Amazon Ads Keeps Winning A recently ballyhooed eMarketer stat estimates current retail media advertising at more than $45 billion and on its way to $100 billion by the end of 2026. That may be true, but it misses some crucial context. Of the […]
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Will Joe Zawadzki Buy His Baby Out Of Bankruptcy?; Netflix Concedes On CPMs Yet Again
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. From The Ashes? When MediaMath’s defunct assets go up for auction in Delaware bankruptcy court next week, founder and one-time CEO Joe Zawadzki may be in the mix. Zawadzki wants to buy and revive the demand-side platform he founded in 2007 … and […]
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Peacock Struts Its Stuff; How Hollywood Exerts Influence On Influencers
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Primed For Peacock Comcast is zeroing in on NBCUniversal’s Peacock to buoy revenues while cable declines. Broadband subscriptions are still evaporating – Comcast lost 19,000 US customers last quarter – but revenue is up thanks to Peacock subscriptions and ad revenue to offset […]
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Snap Back To Reality; Alt Currencies Or Nielsen’s ONE Ring To Rule Them All
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Snappy Comeback In 2021, when Apple announced ATT, Snapchat Co-Founder and CEO Evan Spiegel said he was “happy to see [Apple] making the right decision for their customers.” Fast-forward a couple of years, and Spiegel is less glowing about ATT, which severely […]
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Spotify Touts Subs, But Ads Still Lag; For Google, Upgrade Means PMax
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. On The Spot Spotify added 10 million subscribers since last year, bringing its total to 220 million paid users. Most streaming TV services would hire a troupe of trumpeters to announce that news. For Spotify, though, it isn’t enough to assure investors of […]
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Now That’s What I Call SMB Service; Can Cirque du Soleil Be A Gen Z Thing, Too?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Follow Your Intuition, I Guess Intuit, which owns Mailchimp and accounting software like TurboTax and QuickBooks, is launching an ad network called SMB MediaLabs, Adweek reports. As the name implies, Intuit’s media business is a “small business-focused media network.” But it’s focused on […]
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CPGs Court Customers Who Want MOAR; Local News Can Be Subsidized, Not Saved
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Overconsumed The 80/20 rule stating that relatively few people or causes create the vast majority of results isn’t new. But there’s a CPG craze underway to capture narrow slices of outsized customers. For instance, a growing and vocal subset of Americans proudly own […]
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A Third-Party Cookie Deadline Might Stick; LOL, They Named It PMax, Too.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Do We Ever Not Kick The Can? After Google Chrome first committed to third-party cookie deprecation, big advertisers and Google partners frankly didn’t expect the initial deadlines to remain. Google Ads and Chrome weren’t ready, not to mention needing the UK data regulator’s […]
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Netflix Is Trying To Force Ads On Subscribers; The VC-Backed Busts
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Just Watch The Ads, Please Netflix nixed its $9.99 per month Basic plan in the US and UK. It’s the streaming giant’s cheapest ad-free offering, which it likewise removed in Canada only a few weeks ago. Turns out, Netflix has also been hiding […]
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Publisher Tech, We Hardly Knew Ye; The New Creepy Crawlies
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 […]
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Next Stop, Advertising; Why Marketers Really Shouldn’t Meme
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The True Ad Tech Tax Expedia rolled out a long-awaited loyalty program this week called One Key spanning its three flagship brands: Vrbo, Expedia and Hotels.com. This summer should be big for travel, Bloomberg reports, so travel companies are eager to capitalize on […]
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TTD Joins The Nasdaq-100; Who Has A True View On TrueView?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trading Up “Investors had gotten away from an industry they used to love, but the fundamentals are still there when you consider what percent of global ad spend is bought programmatically today versus what will be programmatic five or 10 years from now.” […]
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Is The Privacy Sandbox Ready To Play?; ChatGPT Will License Stories From AP
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Unboxed The Chrome Privacy Sandbox is sorta-kinda-finally ramping up to testable scale. And Google is signaling more clearly that the training wheels are almost ready to come off. Chrome 115 went live for Android on Wednesday and will be available to all users […]
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Will Google Be Punished For GVP?; The Meta Site Pixel Is Under Fire Again
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. GVPeeved Sometimes it feels like there’s no scandal big enough to stop advertisers from spending on Google media. But that’s not been the case following the recent Adalytics report on the Google Video Partner (GVP) program report, which revealed that YouTube campaigns include […]
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Hollywood Forgot About Movie (Marketing) Magic; Have You Tried … Hiding From Search?
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Can Snap Rev-Share Its Way Back To Growth; Unraveling Twitter
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MediaMath Employees File A Class-Action Suit; Can An Indie App Pull Off Threads-Like Growth?
Bank-Erupted The private equity firm and empty LLCs schlepping MediaMath through its bankruptcy process face a new class-action suit brought by former employees over alleged labor violations. Justin Adler-Swanberg, until recently MediaMath’s director of product strategy in charge of marketplace quality and compliance, is the named plaintiff. The filing says roughly 200 MediaMath employees who […]
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Can Meta Thread The Needle Twitter Couldn’t?; The Ad Industry Learns To Cope
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Caught Thread-Handed Tech companies rarely credit competitors when they copycat a feature or product. When Mark Zuckerberg published the first Instagram Stories post in 2016, he avoided citing Snapchat, although the term “Stories” itself is a blatant ripoff. When YouTube and Instagram unashamedly […]
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GDPR And CJEU Are Ad Tech’s Four-Letter Words; Netflix Ups The Ad Ante
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Europe? More Like ‘You’re Out’ European data privacy laws mainly deal with privacy. Duh. But there is another motivating factor behind their enforcement: antitrust remedies. Europeans have different privacy standards. What might be considered a consumer protection suit in America could be a human […]
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Fixing Product Returns To Fix Ecommerce Ads; Will The FTC Nix Fake Reviews?
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The Summer Scoop On PMax; Risky Influence
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, […]
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Time To Find A New Topic?; Shopify Gets Serious About Creator Affiliates
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Off Topic The ad industry isn’t sold on the Topics API, which becomes widely available in Chrome’s update July 12. The Topics API is “slightly less creepy than storing every last behavioral detail about someone centrally,” Luke Regan, UK managing partner at performance […]
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It’s An Influencer Downturn, But Not For Influencers; Burnt Out On Testing
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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Netflix Is Here To Make A Loonie, Eh?; On The Hypocrisy Of Modern Marketers
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Moderating The Moderators; Will TikTok Become A Product Manufacturer?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Seeing Reddit The mass desertion of Twitter users and advertisers should be a bonanza for Reddit. Unlike Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube, Reddit is text-based, like LinkedIn or Twitter. But LinkedIn’s over earnest, your-bosses-are-watching vibe is a poor fit for Twitter types. Reddit […]