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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 […]
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Google Wants A Judge To Dismiss The DOJ’s Ad Tech Suit; Comscore’s ‘Pulse’ Check
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Dissing And Dismissing Quelle surprise. On Monday, Google filed a motion to dismiss the Justice Department’s antitrust case over Google’s dominance over the online advertising market. The DOJ sued Google in January alleging that the behemoth – sorry, the company – not only […]
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The Bread Bowl Value Exchange; Pacvue’s PE-Backed Booster Pack
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Palm Readers Panera is an early adopter of a palm-scanning biometric data collection product created by Amazon that allows customers to “sign in” with their palms. Doing so links their purchases to Panera’s loyalty program so they can collect rewards. Privacy advocates have […]
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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 […]