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Innovid Needs To Innovate; Putting Test-And-Learn To The Test
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Long Live Linear On Friday, Innovid reported its second quarterly earnings since the company went public in December and its first since closing its acquisition of TV measurement provider TVSquared earlier this year. Innovid’s revenue grew 44% YoY to $25.9 million. Excluding TVSquared, Innovid […]
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The Trade Desk Expands Its Direct Publisher Roster; Password-Free Makes Strange Bedfellows
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Path Less Traveled More publishers have signed up for OpenPath, The Trade Desk’s direct buy-to-sell-side integration. Since launching in February, TTD says it’s “registered interest” (interesting turn of phrase) in OpenPath from more than 100 publishers. The latest crop to, uh, register […]
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Account Sharing Ain’t Just A Netflix Thing; Will Congress Pass A Real Ad Tech Tax?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ye Shall Not Password! Password sharing isn’t just a Netflix problem. Streaming platforms have largely held their tongues because account sharing does have its benefits. For example, allowing people to share accounts helps grow a service’s audience base (although some promo subscription prices practically […]
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Are You Fluent In Acronyms?; Google And Microsoft Could Face Search Engine Suit
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Improved Transparency (Sure … ) The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) has launched a certification program for addressable media identifiers (AMIs), which have become super important since ATT. If you haven’t heard of AMIs, don’t worry. It’s not a common term, at least not […]
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Another Antitrust Suit For Apple; Instacart Bets On Ads Over Warehouses
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Squeaky-Clean Apple Apple was charged in the EU with boxing out wallet apps and payments, using its monopolistic power to force consumers to use Apple Pay, The Wall Street Journal reports. Outside payment services particularly want access to one-touch or mobile contactless purchase […]
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Pubs Push Privacy Products And Their ‘Privileged Position’; Peacock Gets Into Analytics
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Do Publishers Run The IAB Again? Publishers are “in a privileged position” in the new world of privacy-first advertising, Benjamin Dick, the IAB Tech Lab’s senior director of product, said at an event hosted by the group last week, covered by Marketing Brew. Without […]
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How Competitors Overcome Google’s Privacy Lobby; Comcast Struts Its Stuff
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Borking Google’s Privacy Pitch Judges and regulators have narrowly interpreted the consumer welfare standard – the mechanism that’s dictated U.S. antitrust enforcement for 40 years – so that a monopolistic business practice must be shown to directly affect consumer pricing. But that standard has […]
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Influencers Are Winning Share Of Ear Metrics; Kroger Advertising Looks Outside Advertising
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. An Influx Of In-Ear Influencer Inventory Outside of hard news and true crime, podcasting has come to be dominated by influencers. Advertisers are increasingly trying to capitalize on internet celebrities’ and reality TV stars’ massive followings through the tried-and-true podcast marketing method of […]
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Google Is Giving Performance Max All It’s Got; Why Big Tech Likes Privacy Laws All Of A Sudden
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Take It To The Max Google has introduced a new targeting parameter for Performance Max campaigns. Soon, all advertisers will be able to use “customer acquisition goals” to guide their campaigns. Performance Max is less than two years old, but it’s already taking […]
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IOS Marketing Costs Still Hinder Ecom Brands; FreeWheel Picks Up A Line Of Sight Into YouTube
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. RIP, DTC. LUV, ATT. The Q1 earnings reports for 2022 are starting to trickle in, and young DTC brands are still suffering under the weight of their marketing costs following the hit from Apple’s ad policy changes. Manscaped, the men’s grooming brand, grew revenue […]
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Can Netflix Rescue CTV?; The Apple-Google Mobilescape
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. ’Flix Flex Netflix plans to add ads. The question is, should it? And how? Whether Netflix’s plan is to woo shareholders or build back revenue (or both), company execs “didn’t have much conviction” when they announced the idea on Tuesday’s earnings call, Mike Shields […]
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Meta And Shopify Feud While Amazon Cruises; Xandr Adds A Raft Of New Data Partners
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Shape Up Or Shop Out Parallel news items reinforce the massive relative advantage for Amazon and its ad business compared with Facebook and Shopify in the wake of Apple’s data privacy overhaul. For years, rumors flew that Facebook was angling to acquire Shopify, The […]
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The Politics Of Privacy And Antitrust; Will Apple (Finally) Enforce Fingerprinting Rules?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Sharpening Their Tools Privacy and antitrust enforcement is thorny enough. But coverage often misses the most important fact: Some companies are more popular targets, and others are not. A $75 billion Google or Amazon acquisition of Activision Blizzard would be challenged. Microsoft’s deal for […]
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DoubleVerify Snags First Outside MRC Cred On YouTube; Will The Household Become Programmatic’s Atomic Unit?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. I See You … Tube DoubleVerify has gained MRC accreditation as a third-party measurement provider of viewability reporting on YouTube. Specifically, the seal covers DoubleVerify’s access to YouTube site and in-app page-level information via Ads Data Hub, the cloud service that houses Google’s […]
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Ad Tech Execs Head To Walled Gardens; Is It Finally AVOD’s Time To Shine?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Movers And Shakers Did you feel that? There have been some seismic moves lately in Ad Tech Land – not even counting M&A or privacy rules. Stephanie Layser, longtime leader of News Corp.’s advertising technology, is taking her talents to the cloud. She […]
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How Advertising Fits Into Microsoft’s Ambitions; Russian Opposition Leader Says He Needs … Social Ads
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Thinking Outside The Xbox Microsoft is evaluating vendors to help launch an in-game Xbox ad network for free-to-play titles, Insider reports. Rather than interstitials that appear between breaks in mobile games, the Xbox network would help place a snazzier type of ad, like a […]
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The Dirty On Clean Room Services; Are Publishers Paying For Their Paywalls?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Clean Rooms Get Messy The point of clean room tech is to safeguard user data by limiting access to that data while still allowing it to be queried for analytics or ID matches. But does the proliferation of clean room services – and the […]
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The Takeaways On Crazy Take Rates; Facebook’s About-Face On Platform Fees?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Take Rate Takeaways The fees collected by intermediaries in the ad supply chain vary widely, according to new research from consulting firm Adalytics. On one extreme, they could leave publishers collecting as little as 2% of a buyer’s bid price, Morning Brew reports. […]
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Google Tests A Price Indicator That May Rattle Retailers; The CNIL Comes For Google Analytics And Facebook Connect
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Can You Put A Price On … Price? Google is testing “Higher price” and “Lower price” indicators for shopping searches. Brian Freiesleben, an SEO industry observer and practitioner, spotted the badge in the wild on a $760 fireplace from Home Depot. It was […]
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Taking Ads To The Max, HBO Max; Ads Are The Zits In Etsy’s Awkward Years
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Kilar Out Outgoing WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar had interesting tidbits for Bloomberg about HBO Max advertising, now that WarnerMedia merged with Discovery (and is run by Discovery chief David Zalsav). Set aside the rubble of AT&T’s once-ambitious plan to build a top global […]
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Can You Audit For Trust?; Apple Brags About Its Relatively Low App Performance
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Privacy Tech And Privacy Theater The ad industry, particularly publishers, need programmatic ways to convey signals of trust. There’s the IAB Europe’s Transparency and Consent Framework. But that was ruled illegal by the Belgian data privacy regulator and is being overhauled. The regulators say […]
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EDO Raises $80 Million To Chase Nielsen; TV Nets Out The “Stress” In Stress-Tested
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Royal Rumble Of Ratings The TV analytics company EDO, co-founded by Edward Norton, raised $80 million at a $200 million valuation. The actor’s involvement stemmed from Norton’s experience with streaming production, since there are no obvious benchmarks like box office or DVD […]
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FAST Channels Pick Up The Pace Of Original Content; Google Play Store Removes Defense Contractor
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Not So FAST FAST channels have been slow to develop original content. Most free ad-supported TV (FAST) channels are feasting on the scraps of linear TV. It works because old shows are still new for millions of viewers who didn’t catch them over the […]
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Roku Tests Dynamic Linear Ad Insertion; Why Netflix Should Not (Should … Should Not!) Sell Ads
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Roku On A Roll Roku announced a beta program for dynamic linear ad insertion (DLA). Dynamic ad insertion (DAI) was one piece of Roku’s acquisition of Nielsen’s advanced video advertising business last year. Roku’s pitch for DLA is to increase linear addressability by targeting […]
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Why Netflix’s Subscription Model Makes It Unique; The Smart TV Overlay Ad
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Flix it Why does Netflix cancel shows people seem to love? Why does Netflix stick with full-season drops while every other streaming service reverts to a weekly episode cadence? The answers are tied up in Netflix’s commitment to […]
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The TikTok Boat Has Left The Dock; DirecTV Is Back On Its Ad Game
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. TikTok Rocks The Boat TikTok ad budgets went from experimental to critical overnight. Brands are ramping up their TikTok budgets – rapidly. It’s why TikTok expects its ad revenue to triple this year to $12 billion. Buy-side platforms are also gearing up for the […]
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Testing Revs Up In The Chrome Privacy Sandbox; Facebook’s ‘Massive Ranking Failure’
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Get In The Sandbox The moment you’ve been waiting for is here. (No, not the release of the latest season of whatever show you stream.) On Thursday, Google kicked off developer origin trials in Chrome for three Privacy Sandbox proposals: Topics, FLEDGE and […]
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LG Says It’s Not Sweating The OEM Wannabes; When All Else Fails, Go With Advertising
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Reach This LG, Samsung and Vizio all love bragging about their respective reach. But the trio does agree that smart TVs can unlock the scale and addressability marketers need to reach consumers with television ads. Over half of US households own a smart TV. […]
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News Publishers Face A Wave Of Unionization; Facebook Says To Watch It With The ‘Watchbait’
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. State Of The Unions “Prestige doesn’t pay the bills.” That’s the rallying cry in the editorial offices of several big-name publishers seeing labor organizations form among their workforces. On Tuesday, 350 Condé Nast employees signed a letter requesting recognition of their union, The […]
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Subsidizing Creators Ain’t Easy; TikTok Learns From Search (And Vice Versa)
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Creatoring Something Out Of Nothing Tech companies spend millions of dollars – even billions – to subsidize creators. But have any started a creator revenue flywheel (aside from YouTube)? Paying creators is expensive, and the payoff isn’t always clear. Sometimes it can feel like […]