AUTHOR ARCHIVE FOR:
AdExchanger
Articles By Staff
-
Panels And Publishers Have A Love-Hate Relationship; Google’s Sleeping On Its Scam Problem
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Back To The Scoreboard Ad tech is revisiting panels. In some cases, that also means revisiting Nielsen. Amazon Prime, which has exclusive airing rights to the NFL’s “Thursday Night Football,” signed a three-year deal with Nielsen on Tuesday to do audience measurement for […]
-
Before ATT, Apple Tried – And Failed – To Change Facebook; Good Times For Ecommerce Tech
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Fair Share In the years before Apple dropped its AppTrackingTransparency (ATT) framework on the industry’s head like a ton of bricks, the company discussed a possible special arrangement with Facebook to cut Apple in on a slice of Facebook’s revenue, The Wall Street […]
-
Google Wrestles With Political Email Filters; New FTC Commissioner Takes A Stance On Location Data
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Spam And Regs Google submitted a proposal to the Federal Election Commission earlier this month for an idea to allow authorized political emails to go directly to Gmail inboxes without the risk of its filters putting the message into spam. Google’s attorney said in […]
-
Chicken Soup Shoulders Into Streaming; Google Spreads The Sand(box)
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Soup To Box Did you know Chicken Soup for the Soul has a streaming service? Well, it does, and now it also owns Redbox – it paid $375 million for the 20-year-old movie rental kiosk and closed the deal Thursday, the same day it […]
-
Is Netflix Losing On Games?; Nielsen Gets Territorial
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Games Or Gains? Gaming on Netflix isn’t taking off. That’s hardly surprising – you may very well not even have known Netflix has gaming. And that’s a problem for Netflix, which is looking to increase its subscriber base (or at least keep existing subscribers […]
-
Walmart Plus Plus Some Other Plus; The VAB Goes Paneling For Gold
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Plus Interest The idea of a “subscription economy” has grown beyond news and entertainment – and as subscription-based relationships become more valuable, it creates a new way for businesses to work together. Case in point: Walmart talked to Comcast, Paramount and Disney execs about a […]
-
Beep Beep! Lyft’s Got An Ad Network; Nielsen Alternatives Are Grabbing Share
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Lyft Off The latest non-advertising company to launch an ad business comes as no surprise. Ride-hailing app Lyft has introduced Lyft Media, to be helmed by Kenan Saleh, co-founder and former CEO of Halo Cars. Halo, a startup that places digital billboards on rideshare […]
-
Trying To Get Back On Topic; Social Shopping Takes Another Hit
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Topics Of Concern The Chrome Topics API, Google’s proposed third-party-cookie replacement, may perpetuate problems that plagued digital advertising and which the product aims to solve, writes Aram Zucker-Scharff, The Washington Post’s engineering lead for privacy and security, in a personal blog post. If […]
-
AdExchanger’s Comic Caption Contest Winner: Paul Gubbins
A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem… Well, the votes are in for AdExchanger’s 2022 comic caption contest – and we’ve got a winner. Congratulations to Paul Gubbins for making us chuckle, and thanks to everyone for submitting and voting. And Paul, we love dad jokes around here, so, well done. […]
-
Game Apps Get Tougher For Ad Tech; Is The Newsletter Apocalypse Nigh?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. All Fun And Games (For Some) A week ago, Google quietly made a large chunk of mobile gaming revenue disappear with the news that it would prohibit certain in-game formats – namely, full-screen ads that display unexpectedly, full-screen ads that display before the main […]
-
Where Big Tech Meets Diplomacy; Shopify Could Buy, Build Or Invest Its Way Into Ads
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Speak Softly, And Carry A Big Tech Big Tech is on the defensive in the US, where it’s become politically popular to take shots at Alphabet, Meta and Amazon. But events that have transpired over the past year abroad demonstrate how powerful those […]
-
AdExchanger's Caption Contest: It's Time To Vote!
We hosted a comic caption contest this past week – and AdExchanger readers, you really delivered. Thanks to everyone who submitted a caption. Now it’s time to crown the winner. But although you’ve got until 2024 before Google phases out third-party cookies in Chrome, we need you to vote on your favorite caption by 4 […]
-
Not An Elephant, But Can We Talk About The HIPAA In The Room?; The End Of ‘Business As Usual’
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. HIP-HIP- … Hooray? Meta is being sued again. (We’re sure you’re not surprised.) And this time it’s about health-related data. In June, The Markup uncovered that the websites of 33 of Newsweek’s top 100 hospitals had a Meta pixel embedded that was transmitting data […]
-
Apple Doubles Its App Store Ad Options; Amazon Comes For Food Delivery And Mobility Ads
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Break The Bank Last year, when Apple introduced the AppTrackingTransparency framework, mobile analyst Eric Seufert described it as akin to “robbing the mob’s bank” – an allusion to “The Dark Knight,” when the Joker takes half the mob’s money and most of their turf. […]
-
Data Gimmicks Will Eat Us All; Apple Breezes Through The Ads Downturn
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Weird First Dates … I Mean Data Nothing beats the holidays for first-party data gimmicks, but summer is putting on a show. On Friday, Cheetos, a Pepsi brand, announced a giveaway for “fannie macs” – as in fanny packs for summer festivals that […]
-
Agencies Aren’t Fans Of Procurement; Comcast Subscriptions Stall
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A (Pro)cure For What Ails You Agencies and brand marketers are split over their view of procurement. Which is to say, marketers collaborate well with their own procurement departments while agencies begrudge the procurement folks. At least, that’s the message in a new ANA […]
-
Google In The News; Comcast Considers A New Smart TV For Its Living Room
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Googling Through The Headlines Google flooded the zone with news and interviews this week. On the transparency front, one announcement that will impact ad tech is Google Ad Manager’s new “Revenue Verification Report.” GAM, the Google SSP, will look into buy-side gross revenue […]
-
The Most Valuable Sites You’ve Never Heard Of; Facebook Tries Not To Piss Off Its Users
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. B2B Goes Back To Basics B2B publishers, intent-based media, SEO sites: They’re the biggest media companies you’ve never heard of, according to Brian Morrissey at The Rebooting. It’s a category that gets little attention – at least not compared to the likes of Vox […]
-
Apple’s Half-Hearted Concession To Devs And Lawmakers; Roe v. Wading Into The Muck Now
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ripe For Change Earlier this year, as part of a concession to antitrust regulators, Apple started allowing certain developers to avoid paying its 30% App Store fee by redirecting users to external sites in order to subscribe – and now Netflix is taking advantage. Previously, […]
-
Nielsen ONE Depends On Nielsen’s Four Screens; Why Retail Media Will Not Be Stopped
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Through The Tube Nielsen has another horse in the measurement race, and this one’s name is Good Ol’ YouTube. Nielsen’s new Four-Screen Ad Deduplication product allows media buyers to compare their reach on YouTube across desktop, mobile, CTV and their linear audiences to reduce […]
-
The Shein Machine; The First Shots In The Brand-Safety War On Fox
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pronounced She-In, As In “Ooh … She In Trouble Now” The fast-fashion company Shein, a gigantic but secretive Chinese manufacturer of fast fashion, is getting a lot of attention. Which Shein both does and does not want. On the plus side, Shein has […]
-
It’s Time For Another AdExchanger Comic Caption Contest!
🏆 We’re hosting our next comic caption contest. 🏆 Submit your caption idea by 5 p.m. ET on Tuesday, July 25, for the chance to win a free ticket to Programmatic I/O New York in October.
-
CTV Is A Dragon, But With Or Without A Tail?; And Is It Privacy Tech Or Privacy Theater?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. VideoLift Breaking into connected TV isn’t easy. It takes hard-earned partnerships with dominant distributors like Netflix or Disney. TripleLift has been attempting to shoulder its way into CTV for some time by insisting that native ad formats work in CTV despite being relatively new. […]
-
To Understand Where TV Is Going, Track The NFL; Ad Buyers Grapple With Real Data Emissions
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Game-Changer The NFL has a history of media and marketing innovation. If we’re keeping score, it was the first sports league to reach every TV in America, the first to invest in studio-style production and the first to mic players on the field. […]
-
Money Well Spent On Time Spent Streaming; More Retail Remedies For DTC
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Going With The Stream Broadcasters are all-in on streaming subscriptions as the metric du jour, but they are still awkwardly adapting to the market. Linear TV bundles are lucrative – especially compared to streaming services that lose billions per year. But programmers can’t (or […]
-
Could Amazon Ditch Private-Label Brands?; Bringing Super-Highway Fees To Big Tech
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Amazon’s Private Parts Amazon has been reducing the number of private-label products it sells, and leaders have also “discussed the possibility of exiting the private-label business entirely,” The Wall Street Journal reports. Many Amazon private-label product lines have slow or diminishing sales. But there’s […]
-
DOJ Rejects Google’s Antitrust Concessions; Instacart+ Plugs Into The Retail Media Network Network
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Compromise For Google Google’s reported offer to US regulators as a bid to avoid an antitrust suit was to spin off part of its ad business. But that news apparently landed with a thud. The Department of Justice is poised to move […]
-
We Have A Winner! (And It’s Microsoft); Can TikTok Steal Google’s Search Lunch?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Get The Net! Corks are popping in Redmond, Washington, home of Microsoft, after news that Netflix selected Microsoft Advertising as the global sales and technology partner for its ad business. “Microsoft has the proven ability to support all our advertising needs as we work […]
-
Subscription Conniptions; And Why Streaming Platforms Have Issues With Ad Volume
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Death By A Thousand Subscriptions News subscriptions. OK. Entertainment subscriptions, sure. Gaming subscriptions … I can see it. But subscriptions have now taken over the economy. This year, Sweetgreen and Taco Bell started testing subscription offers, and Alaska Airlines also began testing a subscription […]
-
Netflix Seeks Top Exec For Its Ad Business; Facebook Shifts Algorithm To Mimic TikTok
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Get The Net Netflix isn’t just vetting third-party vendors for its pre-launch ad business (though it is vetting vendors, to be clear). The streaming leader is on the hunt for an executive to lead its incubating advertising business, The Wall Street Journal reports. […]