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Meta Tests Paying Creators For Reels Views; But Paying News Publishers Is A Bridge Too Far
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Reeling In The Green Meta reel-y wants to monetize Reels. (Sorry, had to.) Now that the company has abandoned its metaverse plans, it’s getting back to its bread and butter: advertising. The platform is testing a new performance-based pay model for Ads on […]
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Does The Trade Desk Set The Protocols?; AMP, PWAs And The Web We’ll Never Know
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Video Jockeys The Trade Desk publicly adopted the IAB Tech Lab’s new video protocols, which create more specificity around the type of online video ads being bought, Adweek reports. The news worried some publishers who run low-quality videos, like easily ignored spots or […]
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LUMA Leadership Reshuffles In Ad Tech Cold Streak; Turning A New Page
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The LUMA Escape LUMA Partners – the investment bank of ad tech, essentially – is having a major fracture. Brian Andersen, a co-founder and partner, along with partners Mark Greenbaum and Dick Filippini, are all exiting over a disagreement with co-founder and CEO […]
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Ad Tech’s New Favorite Acronym Is RMN; Google And Amazon Staff Up On Trade Group Know-How
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Stores Of Value From regional chains to the largest department and grocery stores, seemingly every retailer is in the retail media network business. Retail ad spend forecasts have leapt to $25 billion and more. Except those numbers mostly track Amazon’s growth, plus a […]
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The Browser Cold War Is Turning Hot; TikTok The News
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Browser Bowsers A decades-long truce among browser operators – Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome – is dissolving as Google and Microsoft militarize their platform borderlands. Last year, Google introduced a one-click button for Windows devices that set Chrome as the […]
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Why Ads vs. Subscriptions Is Wrongheaded; Farm-To-Table Advertising
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The All-In Risk The natural state for digital media monetization isn’t 100% advertising or all subscriptions, but some balance of both. The Athletic couldn’t get by on subscriptions alone, and BuzzFeed News died on the ad-only vine. But media companies are now creating […]
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Why AWS Is Ad Tech’s New Three-Letter Acronym; The Waterfall Runs Dry
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Layser Focused Stephanie Layser, former News Corp VP of ad tech, data and identity products, joined Amazon Web Services a year ago as global head of publisher ad tech solutions. And she just recorded a podcast with Marketecture about what she’s been up […]
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Machine Learning Is Elementary, But Also In Charge; Stick A Pin In That
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Can’t Spell “Brain Drain” Without AIs Silicon Valley giants bet the house on machine learning software to automate their businesses, and bringing that same automation to advertisers. Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft execs used the word “AI” more than 200 times in investor calls […]
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Criteo Is Waiting For The Shopify Deal; About Time (To Remove Its Paywall)
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Audiences Worth Waiting For Criteo announced the “next phase of its integration with Shopify,” which is an update to its Shopify App Store. It’s not news that’ll set the world on fire, but Criteo maintains a drumbeat of Shopify integrations. Criteo’s Shopify merchant […]
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Why RMNs Aren’t Even About Ads, Sometimes; Time For A New Charter
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Retail Wagging The Dog Retail media networks are advertising businesses. Usually. Sort of. For many retailers, the data-driven ad practice serves different purposes. Lowe’s announced new digital products for contractors and other professionals, reports Retail Dive.
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Epic Loses, But Takes A Bite Of The Apple; The “Very Large” Platforms
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. End Of An Epic Case Epic lost its appeal case against Apple, which it had accused of anticompetitive practices. However, despite the overall failure of its case, Epic did win one important and now lasting change to Apple’s App Store policies. Apple’s “anti-steering provision” […]
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Nielsen And The JIC Can’t Agree; When Search May Lead You Astray
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Currency Contest Can the TV industry’s currency debate get any hotter? (For something so in the weeds, that is.) Guess so. Nielsen has formally repudiated the broadcaster-backed joint industry committee’s (JIC) video standards agreement. In a letter to OpenAP, the data vendor behind […]
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Twitter Gives Itself Another Bruise; A Quick SKAN Of … SKAN
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Black And Blue Twitter has removed blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts as promised, as in accounts that don’t subscribe to the new $8-per-month Twitter Blue program. The rollout has, of course, been a botched job. Some celeb accounts, including Lebron James, Stephen […]
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Index Exchange Isn’t (Pure)Playing Games; Welcome To Sedona! Now Go Away
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Purity Test Independent ad tech companies – namely, The Trade Desk and Magnite – have taken their first awkward steps across the exchange with products that bridge directly to publishers (in TTD’s case) and right to agencies (in the case of Magnite). This […]
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Big Tech Says Pee-Yew To The EU; Welcome To The Real World, BeReal
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Europe? More Like ‘You’re Out’ In 2018, a handful of American ad tech startups abandoned the EU when their services became (more likely than not) verboten. Drawbridge, for instance, left Europe when it became clear that regulators had cross-device graphs in their crosshairs. […]
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Instagram Finally Lets Links In Bios; If You Reddit, You Buy It
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Missing Link Instagram now lets users link to multiple external sites from their bio page. Sounds minor, but it’s a concession creators have begged for from virtually every social platform for years. In fact, TechCrunch reports, Instagram is only loosening the policy […]
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A Samsung Swan Song? Not So Fast; YouTube Tells Creators To Get Affiliated
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. We don’t like to boast, but we did a thing: AdExchanger just won regional gold, silver and bronze awards for our editorial coverage at the 2023 Azbee Awards. Check it out, and sincere thanks to our readers! Still Searching Googlers were in “panic” […]
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Down And Dirty With DOOH; Does TikTok Win, Even If TikTok Wins?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Aim At The Heart, Hit The Stomach When New York added digital screens to subway cars, Seamless and other food delivery services were natural advertisers, often showcasing food-related content or recipes. But those were actual recipes. The new digital out-of-home subway trend is […]
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Netflix Flexes Its New Ad Muscles; The Crocs Account
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tightening The Net Netflix’s 15- or 30-second ads between TV-quality content is what CTV advertisers want from streaming media. Peter Naylor, Netflix’s first-ever ad sales leader, touted differentiators in its pitch to ad buyers. For one, some broadcasters mix streaming and linear, Naylor […]
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Brands Want A Handle On AI Fakes And Disinfo; Let’s DTC How This Works
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Better Safe Than Sorry Brands are nervous about misinformation, especially as generative AI tools make it relatively easy to create convincing fake images, audio files and videos. General Mills is teaming up with verification company Zefr to measure misinformation around its social media […]
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Goliath Is Winning At Sports; Apple’s First Advertising Antitrust Suit?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Go Big Or Go Home Apple, Amazon and Google (via YouTube) are now presumptive leaders for major sports broadcast deals. Apple snapped up Major League Soccer and Major League Baseball rights last year, while Amazon and Google had National Football League coups. These […]
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A Dollar Here, A Dollar There (For Dollar General); How Silicon Valley Got Unbanked
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. General Admission Dollar General is one of many retail chains to launch an ad platform business. And the Dollar General Media Network (DGMN), as it’s known, just added a new partner last week: Meta. The Meta ad platform can now attribute sales to […]
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Elon Musk May Be A Great Get And A Regret; The Ad Tech Gold Mine
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What Could Possible Go Wrong? Elon Musk was a splashy late get for the POSSIBLE marketing conference in Miami next week. He’s a major draw, but he comes with risks, as some brand leaders are concerned about Musk’s participation, Semafor reports. In previous […]
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Google Ads Is Fully Ditching Rules-Based Attribution; The Costs Of Targeting
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rules Of The Game In September 2021, Google Ads switched from last-click attribution as its default measurement mode to “data-driven attribution.” The latter is Google’s term for modeled attribution without preset rules, like that a brand’s first ad exposure or the last click […]
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TikTok Slowly Tries A US Affiliate Program; Twitter Shows Its Reco Rules
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Why Social Is Unaffiliated TikTok is beginning to cut US creators in on sales – aka affiliate commissions – through its on-platform shopping service, Shops. The product is being tested by pilot brand advertisers and creators, Insider reports. Posts with the affiliate tag […]
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TikTok’s And Instagram’s Unfinished Search; The Age Of The Pop-Up
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Still Searching TikTok and Instagram want search marketing budgets. But even those megaplatforms face a long road before they can catch up to true search players Google and Amazon, Ad Age reports. Search advertising typically identifies people who are about ready to buy. […]
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SSPs Can Do Buyer Direct, Too; How Wordle Guides Became An SEO Bubble
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. SP-Oh, It’s On Call it supply-path optimization, transparency or premium publisher marketplaces. Whichever you choose, Digiday writes, it “amounts to disintermediation.” In recent years, DSPs have leapfrogged SSPs to establish direct connections with media companies. The marketers are interested in media, after all, […]
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Shell Acquires Volta, With An Eye On Ad Revenue; BuzzFeed Falls For ChatGPT
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. High Voltage Media Last week, we mentioned Volta, a company that manufactures electric car charging stations, in our new weekly Commerce Media newsletter as an apt example of the strange inventory grab-bag that sometimes exists behind a retail media platform. For Volta Media, […]
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Meta’s EU Opt-Out; Do Chatbots Come In Peace?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Opt Out Or Copped Out? Facebook and Instagram users in the EU will be able to opt out of personalized advertising, except for broad segmentation for gender and country, The Wall Street Journal reports. Ireland’s data protection regulator fined Meta roughly $423 million […]
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At What Point Do We Call It ‘Deadstream’ Shopping?; Ballparking The Value Of TikTok US
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Live Shopping ROI … Or RIP? Amazon, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube have all tried their darndest to make livestream shopping happen in the US. But Americans just aren’t into it, Wired reports, and Chinese influencers and companies aren’t having much success exporting their […]