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More Layoffs At BuzzFeed; Can’t Spell “Bundle” Without “Bled”
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. BuzzCuts BuzzFeed is laying off 12% of its workforce, Variety reports, based on an SEC filing. The reduction will apparently help BuzzFeed “weather an economic downturn that I believe will extend well into 2023,” writes CEO Jonah Peretti in a memo. BuzzFeed’s revenue […]
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LUMA’s Digital Marketing Report Is Out; Live Shop Till You Drop, Pretty Please
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The State Of Digital Marketing (Is Not Great) The LUMA State of Digital Marketing report generally paints a rose-tinted scene for ad tech. The same is true this year, though a few metrics stick out. For one, although every category is down in the […]
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The Podcast Purchase Pipeline; Canada Wants More Canadians On YouTube
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Podcast To Cart Podcast advertising is plagued by measurement challenges. For example, there’s nothing to click or optimize. But marketers still like the channel for its intimacy and because podcasts are starting to pop in attribution reports. Ecommerce retailer Uncommon Goods spent $2.8 million […]
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Get Wrapped In Excitement; Twitter Offers Huge Freebies For Q4 Buys
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. That’s A Wrapped This week once again saw social timelines taken over by Spotify Wrapped, the audio service’s year-end user roundup of the most-played music and podcasts. In addition to highlighting Spotify’s first-party data, Wrapped has become the company’s most effective marketing tool, […]
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Keurig Dr Pepper Ticks Off Agencies; Is TikTok More TV Than Social Media?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Ailment Is Worse Than The Keurig Keurig Dr Pepper sparked a rare joint agency outcry regarding an RFP for its PR business. The beverage brand issued an RFP with 360-day payment terms – meaning the brand wouldn’t have to pay for work done […]
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The Streaming Wars Have Worn Out TV; Can Elon Provoke A Feud With Apple?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Out Of The Frying Pan Into The Stream Can broadcast-owned streaming services handle the heat? Studios and programmers have just about had it with the Royal Rumble chaos of streaming subscription competition. Warner Bros. Discovery, for one, keeps slashing HBO Max productions to curb […]
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Yahoo’s Moolah For Taboola; The New Social Butterfly
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Yahoo? Yahoo has taken a 25% stake in Taboola as part of a 30-year exclusive ad deal (uhh … pardon?) that makes Taboola the primary native inventory seller for Yahoo’s media properties, The New York Times reports. The announcement leaves questions hanging. A […]
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The Power Of The Pixel; The ‘Sponsorification’ Of Amazon Search
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pixel Dust A network of website pixels, once the ultimate ad platform flex, can now be a liability. Last week, Meta got dinged by The Markup again, this time for collecting sensitive financial data, including tax filing status, refund amounts and adjusted gross income, […]
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TikTok’s Ambition To Be Always On; Close A Linear Door, Open A CTV Window
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 Monday. Enjoy your holiday, and may all your online orders arrive on time. A Little Bit Lauder Now Estée Lauder wasn’t a first mover on TikTok – but it was a very fast follower. The Estée Lauder […]
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Iger Iger, Burning Bright; Who Surveils The Surveillers?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. House Of The Mouse Disney has replaced CEO Bob Chapek with former CEO Bob Iger in a surprise turn. The two Bobs (real names Robert Allen Iger and Robert Alan Chapek, if you can believe it) had two rather different streaming strategies. Iger prioritized […]
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Can CMOs Market Themselves?; Big Media Says Winter Is Coming
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Go-To-Marketer Plan Marketers are getting thirstier, The Wall Street Journal reports. That isn’t new. (This is the industry that gave birth to Shingy and Gary Vaynerchuk.) But there’s been a marked uptick in CMOs using brand-building and content-writing services to try and climb […]
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All Fun And Games Until Someone Loses A Franchise; Can’t Spell “Macro” Without CMO
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Hasbros And The Have-Nots Companies like Netflix, Roku, Apple, Amazon and Paramount are thirsting for recognizable brands they can build a content universe around. Media franchises provide a solution. Because, apparently, people will settle for only franchises and nothing new, ever again. […]
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The End Of An Era In Free-To-Play Gaming; How Agencies Are Weathering This Downturn
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Gaming The System Apple’s ATT has far-reaching ramifications not just for mobile game monetization but for how studios conceive and build games. Google and Facebook were so adept at funneling players to game developers because they matched people precisely based on gaming history. […]
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Streaming CPMs Stay Sky High (For Now); Is BeReal Being Real About Monetization?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Top Tier Broadcasters must convince investors that streaming media is a sound bet. Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway, for one, just spiked its stake in Paramount. A big factor will be whether relatively high AVOD prices are maintainable over time. Netflix, for example, has been […]
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The Lifetime ‘Valueless’ Equation; Why CTV Needs SPO
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Has Lifetime Value Timed Out? It was the best of LTV, it was the worst of LTV. In mobile marketing, lifetime value (LTV) has long been considered a key metric for many data-savvy marketers. But times are changing, writes Eric Seufert at Mobile Dev […]
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Is Sustainability The New Ad Tech Tax?; TV Faces An Advertising Comeuppance
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Going ‘Green’ Costs Green Digital advertising contributes to carbon emissions. Every programmatic ping, bid and load consumes electricity, and the overcrowded programmatic supply chain just makes the problem worse. Everyone agrees that sustainability should be a priority. But changing workflows costs money, and industry […]
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Amazon’s Sponsored Feed; For TikTok, Growing Up Means Creator Rev Share
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What’s For Sale? Amazon has started down the path of “Googlification.” Which is to say, its search engine has flipped from primarily serving up the best organic options to servicing advertisers with the best prospecting and conquesting opportunities. There were turf wars in […]
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Apple’s Tracking Double Standard; Justifying Ad Budgets During A Downturn
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Apple Of Apple’s Eye Apple tracks iOS users even when they explicitly choose to “disable the sharing of Device Analytics altogether,” Gizmodo reports. “Opting out or switching the personalization options off did not reduce the amount of detailed analytics that the app was […]
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The Retail Media Reality Check; TikTok Gets The CMO Touch
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Retail Wags The Dog CTV is a shiny object, but retail media is even shinier. Unlike CTV, which is a maturing channel, retail media is still floating down a river of optimism and the hype is swirling. Retail media prices, for example, are […]
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Credit Cards Add More Booking To Their Books; YouTube’s Not-So-Shorts Stack
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Credit Where Due Credit card companies and old-school banks are swooping in on tech and media startups. Mastercard was an early CDP acquirer with SessionM and in September bought the marketing personalization service Dynamic Yield from McDonald’s. Last year, American Express invested in the […]
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Netflix Has Ads Now; Why Big Tech Will Win Big Sports
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The New Net Netflix has ads. Hooray? Netflix launched its ad-supported tier last week, and Netflix Basic with Ads, as it’s called, will be, well, basic. Targeting is done by category and genre, with Nielsen, IAS and DoubleVerify as measurement partners. The ad load […]
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Microsoft Advertising Is A Supporting Character, Not A Lead; CTV Doesn’t Mean Brand Safe
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. When Even The Whales Are Small Fish Microsoft has new job listings for software engineers to develop a line of “low-cost PCs powered through advertising and subscriptions,” reports Windows Latest. It’s one of many recent cases where Microsoft Advertising supports another business line, […]
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Monopsony Gets Its Day In Court; Why Theory-First Works In Theory
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Who Wants To Play Monopsony? This week, a US judge blocked a merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster, two major publishing houses. You may ask, why is a print publishing merger relevant? Partly because it’s another example of legacy businesses […]
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Why Google Just Can’t Quit Ad Tech; Paneling For Gold
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ad Tech? What Ad Tech? One refrain from Google when it defends its third-party ad tech business is that ad tech is a minuscule contributor to Google’s revenue. Which begs the question: Why not get rid of it? But Google won’t quit ad […]
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Can Advertisers Rethink Brand Safety Already; Google Cleans Up ADH
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Safe Bet Which is “unsafe,” really: the tech or the media? Advertisers think of “brand safety” as an adjacency issue. Is there a picture of a car crash? Maybe not Toyota. Other brands avoid keywords like “gun control” and “abortion.” But there’s […]
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Amazon And Nielsen’s Misratings; Why Ad Tech Likes Vague Laws
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Playing The Game Amazon took its first real step into linear TV broadcast territory in September when it streamed its first live NFL game only carried on Amazon Prime, not a TV network. And, of course, Amazon is already feuding with Nielsen. There’s […]
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The Twitter Thing Is Happening?!; What Lysol Did After Cleaning Up
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. All Of A Twitter Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition must be near, because Musk is sounding like the real-world owner of Twitter and not a troll trying to harm the business. “There has been much speculation about why I bought Twitter and what I […]
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Going Mall-In On Social Commerce; The ROI on DEI
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Against Mall Odds TikTok is many things: a payday for influencers, a news service, an entertainment provider, a music video player, a search engine and more. “Though, what executives really want TikTok to be known as is a digital shopping mall,” MarketWatch reports. TikTok […]
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Web 3? More Like Web 30%; Balancing “Commercial” And “Surveillance”
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Maybe Web 4 Apple has asserted its dominion over Web 3 developers. In its latest app review guidance, which went live this week, Apple introduced language to clarify that apps “may not use their own mechanisms to unlock content or functionality, such as […]
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The App Store Homepage, Brought To You By Ads; NBCU Gets Defensive
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The New Apple October 25 quietly marks a big step for Apple’s ambition to become one of the world’s largest advertising companies. Starting today, developers can promote themselves directly in the “Today” section of the App Store, MacRumors reports. The “Today” section is a […]