AUTHOR ARCHIVE FOR:
AdExchanger
Articles By Staff
-
Not-So-Super Bowl Ads; All-In On ARPU
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Big Lame Last year’s Super Bowl ads are noteworthy, in retrospect, for those cringeworthy crypto spots, including for disgraced crypto exchange FTX. Don’t worry, though, nobody’s learned anything. This year, advertisers are leaning into controversy and making decisions they could come to […]
-
Losing The Surveillance War; Meta And BuzzFeed, Together Again
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Battle Lines Drawn The online advertising industry is struggling with its own brand perception. Nomenclature like “fingerprinting” doesn’t help, and over the past few years programmatic has been caught up in a vortex of negative opinions. Terms such as “surveillance capitalism” and even […]
-
Twitter Wants To Be Seen As Brand Suitable; Does Anyone Have Streaming ARPU Right?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Better Sorry Than Safe Twitter is partnering with DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science on brand safety. Gotta do something to woo back its advertisers. “Through custom-built solutions for Twitter’s feed environment, these tests have shown that more than 99% of measured impressions appeared […]
-
The Trade Desk Tests Its Agency Legacy; Google’s Agency Relationships Change, Too
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trade Punches In 2016, The Trade Desk cracked open the DSP market by sticking with agencies. DSPs such as Turn and TubeMogul attempted to go brand-direct but were dropped by agencies and AppNexus, the top dog DSP at the time, refashioned itself as […]
-
Rev Shares Are In Short Supply; Will Ads Save Or Ruin Netflix?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Shorts Deal YouTube’s expansion of revenue sharing to Shorts is a classic move – but with a pretty big twist, Digiday reports. Normally, Google cuts creators in on the ads it serves during or right before their video. But with Shorts, which is a […]
-
Lay Off With The Layoffs Already; How TikTok Turns Up The Heat
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Black Friday The new year is only a few weeks old and there have already been multiple waves of crushing tech layoffs. On Friday, Alphabet added to the carnage with the news that it’s cutting 12,000 jobs – its largest-ever reduction. The Google cuts […]
-
YouTube Regains Top Billing At VidCon; A ‘Vastflux’ Of Fraud
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The New You YouTube is once again the title sponsor of VidCon, Tubefilter reports. It lost that honor last year (after seven years of top billing) when TikTok took its place for the 2022 show, which was the first VidCon following a three-year […]
-
TikTok Quietly Gets Into Podcasts; Are Consumers Searching For A New Search Engine?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Listening Ears Hear that? It’s the sound of TikTok doing the podcasting thing. Insider reports that TikTok is testing a new “Podcasts” feature that allows users to continue listening to a program while TikTok runs in the background. Typically, leaving the app automatically pauses […]
-
Apple Versus GDPR; Netflix Bulls Versus Netflix Bears
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What Sorcery Is This The CNIL, France’s data protection authority, has been busy lately. The agency fined TikTok earlier this week, Apple a week before that and, on Tuesday, decided a case that could have important ramifications for ad tracking on iOS. What’s […]
-
A MiQ-Drop Moment For Samba Ad Sales; Award Shows Must Escape Linear
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. It Takes Two ACR data and ad analytics firm Samba TV’s media sales business is now in the hands of programmatic firm MiQ, Deadline reports. As part of the multiyear commercial partnership, MiQ will directly handle all of Samba’s former sales operations. Meanwhile, […]
-
Putting The ‘Intern’ In Internet; Will Google Play ChatGPT Whac-A-Mole?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. AdExchanger’s daily news round-up will return on Tuesday, January 17. We will not be publishing any content on Monday, January 16, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Nonhuman Capital Is AI the new intern? For one agency, the answer is “yes.” […]
-
Germany Hits Google For Commingling Data; Is Green The New Gold?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Say “Nein” To Sharing The German Cartel Office, Germany’s antitrust regulator, says Google’s data processing policies violate the country’s digital competition law. Germany’s antitrust regulations go further than the EU’s Digital Markets Act to prohibit data from being shared internally by large companies […]
-
The Power Of Performance; Podcasts Must Cast A Wider Net
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Take It To The Max Google’s Performance Max is a black box that uses automation to serve ads across the Google portfolio, and there’s no arguing that it’s a powerful tool. But PMax also invites tinfoil hat theories about how Google might be serving […]
-
In Consumer Tech, Privacy Is A Distant Concern; Netflix Guns For Net-New Subs
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. In Vegas, The American Way Ad tech can no longer avoid privacy scrutiny, from platform changes to privacy regulations coming into effect across the US. But many of the consumer tech startups at CES last week seemed blissfully unaware of such concerns, writes Tatum […]
-
Revving The Data Engine; Is The Creator Economy Just Hype?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Mobility Ability The retail media boom has spawned a subcategory of first-party data owners in the travel and hospitality vertical, and they’ve got their own terminology. When Uber formalized its new advertising group last October, for example, GM Mark Grether referred to […]
-
The Trade Desk’s Galilean Satellites; Political News Remains Facebook’s Achilles Heel
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Reach For The Stars The Trade Desk announced a new product, called Galileo, that consolidates the company’s existing first-party data solutions. The free-to-use hub includes data clean room services, onboarding and identity plug-ins for Unified ID 2.0. In an interview with Adweek, TTD […]
-
Meet Shopify Audiences (But It Ain’t Advertising); Microsoft Bing Embraces Chatbot Mode
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The One-Stop Shop Shopify is loath to earn ad dollars, but fills a valuable niche as a payment data supplier for Google, Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and Pinterest. Although Google and Meta have their own first-party payment data strategies (see: Facebook and Instagram Shops, […]
-
The Second-Order Effects Of Advertising; Galloping Toward TV Audience Guarantees
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ad Nauseam Launching an advertising business is almost always trickier than it might seem on the surface. Beyond the mechanics of ad serving, verification and measurement, introducing ads complicates a business model in unexpected ways. Take Netflix, which launched ads, like, a minute […]
-
How Etsy Made The Platform Play; Marketing To Bettors, I Mean Fans
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Betsy On Etsy Etsy should be in dire straits. In 2020, a quarter of Etsy’s gross merchandise was homemade masks. Pandemic ecommerce numbers deflated, Apple ATT reversed the mobile economy, then the recession hit. Yet, a dollar on Etsy in December 2019 (just […]
-
GDN, The Gol-Darn Network; Back To School With Team Dayā
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. AdExchanger’s daily news round-up will return in 2023. Enjoy your holiday, and may we all resolve to make fewer cookie jokes in the new year. Of No Account A ProPublica report levels damning criticisms at the Google Display Network. For one thing, accounts […]
-
Snail Mail Still In The Race; Who Wins If Twitter Loses?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Snail Mail Prevails Apple’s AppTrackingTransparency sent advertisers looking beyond Meta and Google for attribution-based advertising. Most of those budgets went to test performance on other digital or social channels, like TikTok or CTV. But some brands are giving more love to good ol’ direct […]
-
Nielsen Reorgs And Cuts Units; Is The Duopoly On The Downswing?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Shake-Up At Nielsen Nielsen just can’t catch a break. First, Nielsen lost its MRC accreditation. Now the company is undergoing a massive reorg – and some industry folks are worried Nielsen might miss a very important deadline. Nielsen’s revamped measurement platform, Nielsen ONE, […]
-
Winning By Lowering The Quality Bar; I Can’t Make Heads Or Retails Of This
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Long Story Short Short-form video content is often thought of as tangentially competitive to traditional TV broadcasters and entertainment studios. That’s partly because short, user-generated social content (TikTok in particular) doesn’t compete directly with TV studios for ad budgets, writes Doug Shapiro, a broadcast […]
-
Demystifying The TikTok Magic; Streaming Carriage Disputes Are All The Rage
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Feed Frenzy TikTok seems to possess some kind of viral pixie dust it sprinkles on every user’s feed. There’s a general sense that TikTok always nails it with the sharpest, timeliest content. And here’s why: TikTok was built as a feed and created […]
-
What A Tangled Web3 We Weave; Netflix, Meet Advertiser Make-Goods
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Untangling Web2 From Web3 Which Web2 social platforms are driving Web3 growth? It turns out there’s “an interesting inversion” happening, according to a blog by Antonio García Martinez, co-founder of Web3 attribution company Spindl. Web3 companies get huge value from Twitter, whereas Google […]
-
Twitter Struggles To Balance Ads And Subscrips; Apple Is Playing Sports To Win
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Twitter’s Subscription Conniptions Elon Musk has been a vocal advocate of Twitter’s subscription business. But subscription growth can come at a severe cost to advertising, the actual revenue. Twitter Blue, as the subscription is called, promises far fewer ads as part of the deal. […]
-
Thank You, Digital Markets Act!; Google Needs To Reenergize The Sandbox
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A New Day, A New Apple Apple engineers are preparing to support third-party app stores on iPhones and iPads, Bloomberg reports. But this is not a change of heart on Apple’s part. Apple is simply following the law. A new rule in the […]
-
Media And Marketing Gossip; Can TikTok Achieve Always-On Status?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Setting The Scene What would anonymous media and entertainment execs say about their fellow media companies? To find out, Bloomberg newsletter author Lucas Shaw pinged 50 media executives with questions about the choices they would make – as both studio execs and fans of […]
-
Retailers Are Going Web-And-Mortar; Twitter Fends Off New Brand Safety Issues
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Mind The Store More brick-and-mortar retailers, especially department stores with real acreage, are carving out square footage in their stores for hybrid ecommerce fulfillment. The idea isn’t new. Best Buy, Nordstrom and others have used stores as online shipping hubs for years. But the […]
-
TikTok’s Je Ne Sais Quoi; Disney+ Enters The AVOD Arena
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Can You Talk The Tok? With TikTok, it’s like the clone wars. (We’re looking at you, Reels and Shorts.) But TikTok has a special power, which is its seemingly limitless feed of quick, infinitely swipeable, likable, shareable videos. Reproducing TikTok’s success is no […]