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So You Want To Be A Snap Star; Brands Play To Win March Madness Messaging
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Snapped For Cash Snap is beta testing an ad revenue-sharing program with creators, Insider reports. Since competing creator programs on social media platforms have been falling flat, Snap’s got a fresh influx of influencer demand on its hands. For example, creators complain that […]
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The TV Identity Web Takes Shape; Why “Fund” Is A Four-Letter Word
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tubi Or Not Tubi Fox-owned Tubi recently made its first ping on Nielsen’s radar with 1% of US TV viewership – just in time for Tubi’s first-ever advertiser conference ahead of upfront season on Thursday, where it showcased glitzy new data partnerships. And […]
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First Come, First Served For First-Party Data; The Gray Lady Goes Gangbusters With Games
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Network To Get Work Being called an “ad network” is a major slur for ad tech companies. It implies arbitrage and obfuscation. The Trade Desk and Google butted heads in 2019 over the designation of Google’s exchange bidding (now called Open Bidding) as […]
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TikTok Pixels, Use It Or Lose It; Walmart Pluses Another Plus
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pixel Problems Calls to ban TikTok in the US or compel it to sell the platform to a non-Chinese owner have placed TikTok’s data collection practices under increased scrutiny. One ancillary result is government agencies taking a crash course on tracking pixels. An […]
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Netflix Verification Hits The Market; The Metaverse Has Already Lost Its Shine
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Verified Love Triangle When Netflix jumped into ad sales, it promised to include ad verification through both DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science. And so it came to pass. On Monday, DV and IAS both released their verification solutions for Netflix inventory. Considering […]
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Does DALL-E Help Or Replace Agencies? Amazon Tests A Public Sales Metric
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Creative Unproduction Ad agencies are among the early adopters of generative AI for work. The big sell is the expense reduction when creative production and strategy is shifted at least in part to AI. Ideas, characters, background elements, colors and all sorts of […]
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I Need To FTC Your Homework; A Lukewarm Brew
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Social Ladder These days, fraudsters seem to prefer social media as their venue of choice. In 2021, Americans lost $800 million to social scams compared to $700 million in reported losses to phone scammers. Last year, phone fraudsters scammed people out of […]
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Is Knowing Nothing Better Than (Machine) Learning A Little?; TikTok Time Bomb
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rage Against The Machines Last week, Meta quietly rolled out Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns, the black box ad engine it previously parceled out to some advertisers upon request. Advantage+, like Google’s Performance Max, puts creative, targeting and optimization controls fully in the hands of […]
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Criteo Locks In ASOS Ads, But With A Catch; TikTok Heating Plays With Fire
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. After A Fashion Criteo inked an exclusive deal with British online clothing retailer ASOS to be the ad tech pipes for its advertising business. “The ASOS vision is to become the go-to global destination for fashion-loving 20-somethings and we want to take brands […]
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Netflix, Leaving So Soon?; Not Exactly Recognizable As Privacy
Netflix explores building its own ad server. Also: Tech companies continue trying to influence the legal definition of privacy.
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All Fund And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Creator; All Systems Ro’ For TV
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Fund At All After luring influencers with massive creator funds, social media companies are reverting back to an advertising revenue-share model to compensate creators. Meta will put its Reels Play bonus program for US Instagram users on hold, and Facebook is dropping […]
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The Unbridgeable Ad Currency Gap; Ad Fraud Is Hiding Behind iFrames And GAM
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bog Standard TV broadcasters still dispute the basics of how to count an ad impression. This week, a broadcaster-backed joint industry committee published a first pass at standards for video currency providers. Paramount, which is part of the JIC, released a template of […]
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TikTok Is Getting Serious About Search; A Complex Fracture, But Not The Bad Kind
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Google Shakes Off The DOJ Haymaker; Shorts May Not Make It For The Long Haul
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pass The DOJ Google faces a DOJ lawsuit that could compel the company to spin out its sell-side ad tech business. But the company isn’t overly concerned about this development, per a conversation between Marketing Brew and Google VP of Global Ads Dan […]
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What Makes A Currency?; Google’s Ad Tech May Not Be The Big Problem
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Currents Of Currency In January, a group of US broadcasters formed a joint industry committee, fronted by OpenAP, to work on new video currency standards. On Monday, the JIC published its first guidelines. The “first pass” on these guidelines establishes a baseline between […]
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Keep It Confidential; Taking License
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Don’t Be Surprised If Peloton Launches A Media Network; Is That A Purchase, Perchance?
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All Mathed Out; No Need For An iOS SOS?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tough Math MediaMath came to the end of its decade-long venture capital tether last year when it sold a stake to PE firm Searchlight Capital, wiping out the equity of its founders, early investors and employees. It’s a bitter outcome, reports Insider in […]
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Can BeReal Be The Real Thing?; Simpli.fi Acquires Bidtellect
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A Bull Or Bear On TTD?; Part Of A Balanced Breakfast
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trade Desk Trade-Offs The investment bank Needham has both the bullish and bearish takes on The Trade Desk after the DSP reported earnings this month. And there is a compelling case in both directions.
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Angry Birds Explodes Its Paid-For Version; Social Subscription Conniptions
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Ad-Supported Bird Gets The Worm Free-to-play reigns supreme in the mobile game market. Angry Birds, a mobile gaming OG that found early success using paid downloads, is now putting all its eggs into the ad-supported basket, Ars Technica reports. Rovio had already […]
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A Spectrum Of TV Creative; PMax Concedes A Few New Advertiser Controls
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Artificial Ads Advertisers can use AI to generate entire TV commercials. Wait, what? Spectrum Reach launched an AI tool on Wednesday that clients can use to input basic company information (name and location), select the desired tone for the commercial and choose one […]
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Cynically Sustainable; Was Podcast Advertising Just Wishcasting?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Green Means Go Privacy and sustainability are critical topics for the future of humanity, and both are top priorities for many high earners in the US and the UK. So, of course, they’re used for cynical marketing purposes and anti-competition skullduggery. With an […]
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Section 230 Goes Up Against SCOTUS; Check One, Check Two … Is Anyone Buying This?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. 230 Unhurty? The US Supreme Court held oral arguments on Tuesday in the case of Gonzalez v. Google, which challenges the Section 230 legal protections for companies that host user-generated content. In the suit is the family of a victim of the 2015 […]
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Is Bing Chat Ready For Ads? (NO); Agencies See Green
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bing Chat Is … Weird Microsoft’s AI-enabled Bing search is making waves for all the wrong reasons. In early tests, the new Bing produced unhinged results that ranged from an aggressive know-it-all who’s constantly wrong to a jilted lover … to a robot […]
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Can You Teach A Copycat New Tricks?; Wojcicki Out, Mohan Up
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The round-up will return Tuesday, February 21, in observance of the Presidents’ Day holiday. Thanks, George and Abe, for the long weekend! The Clone Wars Every few months, social platforms align on a shiny new object … that’s really just another version of […]
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Instagram Is Shopped Out Already; How Many People Watched The Super Bowl?
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IAC You On The Other Side; Chatbots Nail The Rehearsal But Aren’t Ready For Showtime
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Dot Dot Dot – Dash Dash Dash – Dot Dot Dot Dotdash Meredith is feeling the same pain as many others amid a pullback in advertising. And IAC’s revenue woes were compounded by soft consumer demand, which dinged its affiliate marketing business, according […]
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Canadians Say No-Can-Do; Streaming Of The Good Old Days
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Don’t Label Me Canada is coming for digital platforms like YouTube, TikTok, Spotify and Netflix with legislation that requires the services to feature Canadian content in country. The new law extends regulations already in place for domestic TV and radio stations to abide […]
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Getting Serious About Casual Games; Wait, Is Congress For Real About Something?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Crushin’ It Because Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard is still in the air, the Candy Crush owner didn’t host an earnings call. But Activision Blizzard did share a Q4 earnings summary, which included some revealing nuggets about what it takes for ad-supported […]