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EU Regulator Wants To Break Up Google; Snowflake Plays Both Sides Of The TV Measurement Wars
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Split Decision The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, charged Google’s digital ad business with antitrust violations on Wednesday, CNBC reports. After a nearly two-year investigation, the commission found that Google’s end-to-end ad platform violates EU antitrust law. It pointed […]
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Signal Loss Muddies TV Measurement; Do Accountability Apps Violate Civil Rights?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Signal, Please TV may not rely on third-party cookies, but that doesn’t mean the television industry isn’t feeling the impact of signal loss. The phaseout of third-party cookies is having a “trickle-down effect” on the TV world, says Lauren Fisher of Advertiser Perceptions, […]
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Snowflake Breaks Into Retail Media; Diverse-Owned Streaming Services Make A Pact
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Flurry Of Activity Will retail media ever flourish beyond garden walls? On Monday, Snowflake inked a partnership with Affinity Solutions, a company that sells purchase data for targeted advertising, so advertisers can access this data directly through Snowflake’s platform. Until now, Snowflake clients […]
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Tracking The Trackers; Why Advertisers Aren’t Sweating The Writers’ Strike
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Inside Track How can I track you? Let me count the … hundreds of thousands of ways. The Markup analyzed a spreadsheet linked to a public page on Microsoft-owned Xandr’s website, and it was quite the trove of audience data. The spreadsheet contains […]
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Comic: Out of Control
By guest artist Nate Fakes A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…
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Demystifying The Ad Tech Tax?; Advantage+ Won’t Woo Buyers Away From Meta’s Adversaries
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Detective Work A pox on the ad tech tax. Google is promoting a new tool in its tech suite to help publishers and buyers track the hidden fees getting sucked up by middlemen in the bid stream. Google initially launched its tool, Confirming […]
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Viant And MediaMath, Stronger Together; Will Prime Go AVOD?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Two Become One Viant may buy MediaMath, knitting together the pair of well-known DSPs, Digiday reports. MediaMath is an OG player that sprang up back in 2007 and was once valued at $1 billion. But it’s been on the market for a long […]
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CNET Backpedals On AI-Generated Content; FTC Fines Microsoft $20M For Collecting Kids' Data
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rise (And Fall) Of The Machines CNET made waves in January when it started publishing articles that were completely generated by AI. But the publisher is already rethinking how it’s using AI to write content after some early missteps, The Verge reports. Half […]
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LiveRamp’s Identity Crisis; Amazon Wants To Resell Mobile Plans
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Buy Me Maybe Could Experian acquire LiveRamp? Rumors abound, Digiday reports. LiveRamp is the data onboarding company behind the deterministic alternative ID option RampID. Whispers of a LiveRamp sale started late last year when its stock price plummeted alongside that of many other ad […]
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Search And Social Converge; The Long And Short Of It
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Searching Elsewhere “Google” has become a verb that’s synonymous with “search.” But Google isn’t the only place to go to find content and products. Google’s own internal research shows that 40% of young people use platforms like Instagram and TikTok as a de […]
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Comic: Swamped
By guest artist John Klossner A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…
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Alternative IDs Under Fire In Europe; This Is What Stream Dreams Are Made Of
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Alternative Third-party cookies are not the future of digital advertising in the EU (or anywhere for that matter). But it looks like alternative IDs may not be either. European publishers are pushing back against alternative IDs that use publisher data to build […]
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Ad Spend’s Slow Spell; The Engagement Advantage
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. In The Slow Lane Dentsu is the latest company to revise its global ad spend forecast downward since its previous report in December. Why? The shaky economy, Adweek reports. Digital dollars, which currently make up close to 60% of all ad spend, will […]
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The Metaverse Clings To Life; AI Fever You Can’t Sweat Out
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Metaverse’s Second Life? The metaverse has gone from the next big thing to a punchline about the danger of chasing Big Tech’s shiny objects. Even Meta is downplaying its investment in immersive virtual worlds. Yet, despite reports to the contrary, metaverse marketing […]
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Big Tech’s Cost-Cutting Slashes AI Ethics, Trust And Safety; Will Netflix’s Anti-Password Sharing Work?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Who Needs Trust And Safety? Big Tech companies are eliminating thousands of positions. Layoffs have largely impacted trust and safety and AI ethics teams, CNBC reports. Meta announced plans to cut 21,000 jobs in 2023, a culling CEO Mark Zuckerberg described as the […]
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Comic: Nonplussed.
By guest artist Lila Ash A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…
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Meta Pumps More Ads Into Instagram; Black-Owned Media Says No To Programmatic
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Search Continues Instagram now has ads in its search results. Users will see sponsored posts for products when they conduct interest-based searches, such as for skin care, TechCrunch reports. Search is just the latest ad format that Meta is cramming onto Instagram […]
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Google PAIRs With Clean Rooms; Netflix Moochers Shall Mooch No More
Google PAIR integrates with LiveRamp, Habu and InfoSum. Plus: Netflix officially starts enforcing against account sharing in the US.
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Max’s Launch Day Suffers Hiccups; Advertisers Consider Caving To The “Un-Woke” Mob
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. To The Max On Tuesday, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) officially launched Max, its new streaming service that combines HBO Max and Discovery+ content. But the launch had some technical difficulties. Subscribers complained on social media about the app crashing, streams freezing and difficulties […]
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Streamers Need To Bank On More Than Just Ads – As They Add More Ads
Streaming services are increasing both their subscription prices and ad loads. Plus: Meta just broke the record for the biggest GDPR fine ever.
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Twitter Cries Foul On Microsoft AI’s Data Usage; Comedians Bank On TikTok
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cut Us In, Or Cut It Out Twitter is ticked off at Microsoft over data use. Elon Musk outlined his grievances in a letter sent by his personal lawyer, Alex Spiro, to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday, The New York Times reports. […]
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Comic: Peak RMN?
Have we reached peak retail media yet? Seems like everyone’s got one! A comic styling by guest artist Michela Buttignol.
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YouTube Tries To Look More Like TV; Montana Stans A TikTok Ban
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Down The Tube Amid the showmanship, YouTube’s Brandcast came off as a clear reaction to advertiser demands. On Wednesday, YouTube announced unskippable 30-second spots for its top TV content. The new ad units will be available on TV for YouTube Select, the most viewed […]
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Netflix Scrambles To Market Its Ad-Supported Tier; Google’s Consent Mandate
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Race Against The Clock Netflix held its first-ever upfront virtually this week over concerns about the ongoing writers strike. But the streamer also has other problems on its hands. Advertisers are frustrated not just with Netflix’s limited ad targeting but also with the fact […]
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Comcast Preps To Sell Its Hulu Stake To Disney; On The Frontlines Of TV’s Measurement Battle
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hot For Hulu Comcast is preparing to sell its 33% stake of Hulu to Disney. Disney CEO Bob Iger told investors last week that Comcast and Disney were in talks about Hulu’s fate. On Tuesday, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts confirmed “it’s more likely […]
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NBCUniversal’s First Yaccarino-less Upfront; Bye-Bye, Vice
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Upfront At The Upfront NBCUniversal’s upfront was quite the affair. Executives had to enter Radio City Music Hall through a side door because the entrance was blocked by Writers Guild of America protesters. (Guess Netflix was onto something.) Once everyone was settled, the […]
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Twitter Has A New CEO – And It’s NBCU’s Linda Yaccarino (!); Netflix Nixes Its In-Person Upfront
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. NBCU Later Linda Yaccarino, NBCU’s (now former) chair of global advertising, is leaving the broadcasting giant to become Twitter’s new CEO. The news was confirmed in a tweet by Elon Musk, who will be stepping down as CEO within the next six weeks. […]
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You Down With DDL?; NBCU Makes It Official With Comscore
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. “The DDL Difference” The TV industry says addressability is the future. But there’s more to the picture. This upfront season, Warner Bros. Discovery is combining its addressable and data-driven linear (DDL) tech stacks. These offerings were previously separate prior to the merge of […]
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AI Is Nigh For Google Search; Streamlining Streaming Sales
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Prompt And Search-umstance Google is ramping up its AI capabilities for its flagship search product, The Drum reports. During its Google I/O developer conference on Wednesday, the company announced it’s launching Search Labs, an experimental program aimed at expanding AI search functionality. The […]
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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 […]