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Things Are Looking Up For WPP; Nielsen Panelists Don Portable People Meters
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Agency Revival “Broad-based recovery” is the term of the week, repeated in quarterly earnings calls by ad giants like Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook, as well as the publicly traded agency holding companies, which capped off unexpectedly strong years with additional growth in Q2 […]
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Google And Facebook Accused Of Fixing Ad Rates; Xandr Goes Back To Its Roots
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Return Of The Jedi? Google is accused of allegedly cutting a deal with Facebook (again) to “fix” ad rates in programmatic auctions, Ad Age reports. The claim is made in a new antitrust suit filed against the search giant by two Massachusetts companies. The […]
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Discovery CEO Blasts Nielsen; Twitch Launches A New Ad Format
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Big Discovery Fresh off the news that it will merge with WarnerMedia next year to create a media behemoth, Discovery Inc. reported powerhouse earnings in Q2. Discovery ended Q2 with 17 million direct-to-consumer subscribers, up from 11 million last quarter, netting the company $400 […]
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YouTube Gaining More National Brand Advertising; A Missed Opportunity For Machine Learning
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Video Killed The TV Star Comcast’s and Google’s earnings calls last week mark two converging trends in brand advertising and the decline of linear TV. NBC is haggling with advertisers of the Olympics because ratings are down – 42% down – at the halfway […]
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Safari Trails Browser Operators; Amazon Slapped With Record GDPR Fine
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Just Browsing The only browser operators with the resources and potential building blocks to compete with Google Chrome are Microsoft Edge (which is built on Chrome’s open-source code) and Apple’s Safari WebKit. So really that just leaves Safari. And Apple has given up on […]
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Vizio Nixes DSPs From Inscape; Ad-Free Programmers Missing Out
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tunnel Vizio-n Vizio will remove many DSPs from its Inscape smart TV data service, Business Insider reports. Inscape was a popular way to retarget CTV audiences using online advertising IDs, working with DSPs such as The Trade Desk, VideoAmp, Engine Group, MediaMath and Cadent. […]
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Apple's Revenue Soars In Q2; LinkedIn Reaches A Milestone
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cook Your Goose Apple shattered Q2 revenue records for practically all of its products when it reported earnings yesterday. And its services revenue, Apple’s fees from in-app sales and subscriptions, broke an all-time quarterly record – which is ridiculous, because the lazy summer months […]
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AdTheorent Goes The SPAC Route; Facebook Stops Targeting Those Under 18
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. SPAC Theory Ad tech is on fire. AdTheorent is the latest company to join the SPAC craze, following a string of public offerings, such as Innovid and Taboola, in the past two months alone. The SPAC merger in this case will value AdTheorent at […]
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Google Revises Its Privacy Sandbox Timeline; Salesforce Nixes Audience Studio DMP
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Deadlines, Give Or Take Google Chrome has updated the timeline for its Privacy Sandbox proposals, its developer test kit for identity and measurement products meant to replace the purposes served by third-party cookies. The deadlines are quarterly benchmarks, not set dates à la GDPR. […]
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Comcast Weaving In Olympics Footage; Startups Are Attracting Athletes
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Olympic Edge During the Olympic Games, Comcast will interrupt its own commercials with near-live highlights and coverage, Variety reports, taking advantage of the fact it owns NBCUniversal and Olympic broadcast rights. “This makes the viewer feel like, ‘How did that just happen? I […]
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Mobile Apps Safe From Apple's ATT; Health Departments Spending Big On Vaccine Ads
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. ATT Impact Deferred Anyone looking for evidence of harm to mobile app giants by Apple’s AppTrackingTransparency move last quarter may well come up empty. Digital advertising is outgrowing other media channels and will likely continue doing so. “The permeable advantage of digital ads should […]
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BDG Media Planning A SPAC Merger; Mobile Data Gets Personal
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Some SPAC BDG Media Inc., which owns publications such as Bustle, Elite Daily, NYLON and Input, is set to acquire digital media company Some Spider Studios for $150 million, The Wall Street Journal reports. The all-stock purchase comes ahead of BDG’s planned public offering […]
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AT&T Looks To Offload Xandr; Comcast And ViacomCBS Talk Partnership
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Née AppNexus AT&T is reportedly in a rush to offload Xandr because the company is “losing tens of millions” of dollars per year, Axios reports. Xandr, formerly AppNexus, has been “grossly mismanaged” by AT&T, and InMobi is in talks to pick up the company […]
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Toyota Pulls Olympic TV Ads In Japan; Tinuiti Buys Bliss Point Media
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Toyota Juggles Five Rings Toyota pulled its television advertising in Japan to avoid blowback, because the Olympic Games are widely opposed in the host country, especially after a recent spike in COVID-19 cases. It’s a bitter pill for Toyota, which is one of a […]
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Ad Arbitrage Sites Use Misleading Formats; NPR Sells Its Podcasting App
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Upselling Ad arbitrage – buying web traffic and then selling that inventory on a website for more than it was originally paid for – is universally decried but is also still a lucrative strategy. The enterprise data software company DeepSee published a report showing […]
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News Publishers' Ad-Free Challenge; NBCU Wins Big Upfront Deals
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. High On Your Own Supply Balancing ad-supported content with potential ad-free subscription offers can be difficult. The Swedish newspaper company Dagens Nyheter did an analytics review of an ad-free subscription business. “We had to calculate the price level and potential risk of making it […]
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Gartner’s Ad Spend Survey At Odds With Agency Consensus; Captify Finds A Buyer
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Boom Or Bust? New forecasts from Dentsu, WARC and others indicate the ad business is in for a boom year in 2021. GroupM projects the US ad market to grow by 15%, and global growth forecasts range from 6.4% (Magna) up to 10.4% (Dentsu). […]
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W3C Pushed To Lobby Developers; Google Slapped With A Fine
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. W3C Meets Ad Tech Drama The W3C is negotiating a tricky influx of members and attention as it becomes an increasingly important stakeholder in online advertising. That’s because browser operators like Chrome, Apple’s Safari WebKit group, Microsoft Edge and Mozilla are the W3C natives, […]
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Facebook Works To Attract Top Creators; Puts MRC Audit On Ice
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Creator Economy Facebook is trying to woo top content creators. But it’s late to the party and lost its halcyon sheen as the spot for influencers and ecommerce brands, reports The New York Times. YouTube is still the backbone of the video creator […]
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Safari iOS 15 Update Could Hamper Ad Performance; Streaming Subscribers Plateau
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Behind Bars The beta version of Safari available for iOS 15 users could seriously hamper online ad performance. Typically, iOS updates undercut online advertising when Apple makes it difficult (or impossible) to track users around the web or attribute campaign conversions. This Safari change […]
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Another Antitrust Suit Filed; Streaming Commerce Startup Funded
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The States vs. Android Three dozen state attorneys general filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, targeting the company’s Play Store policies and dominance in app distribution. Google has made concessions to Android developers. Earlier this year, Google cut its commission on in-app sales from […]
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Teads Files For IPO; Users Share ‘Regrettable’ YouTube Experiences
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. IPO Craze Another day, another IPO. The latest ad tech company seeking to go public is Altice’s programmatic platform Teads, which filed with the SEC to trade on the Nasdaq, The Wall Street Journal reports. Teads is looking to tap investors while they’re hot […]
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TikTok Spurs Sales; Google's Ad-Friendly Android Gets A Boost
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. TikTok Made Me Buy It Here are some products that are flying out of stock in American stores: “A mysterious cleaning paste called The Pink Stuff, a specific pair of Aerie leggings and a different pair of Zara jeans, Isle of Paradise tanning spray, […]
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Ad Tech’s IPO Craze; Apple Gives In To Roku
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. IPOs Popping The ad tech party is raging after a slew of companies went public in recent weeks. AcuityAds, Taboola and Integral Ad Science went public in June. Not to be outdone, content recommendation company Outbrain announced plans to IPO a day before rival […]
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UID2 'Smart' For CTV; Instagram To Look More Like TikTok
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What’s Your Flavor? FuboTV was the first connected TV company to integrate with The Trade Desk-led Unified ID 2.0 initiative in February. Last month, Tubi announced its support for UID2 – the open-source alternative to third-party cookies that uses hashed or encrypted email addresses […]
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Taboola Goes Public; Budweiser's Big First-Party Data Push
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Taboola Roll Call Taboola began trading on the Nasdaq on Wednesday. It raised more than $500 million with the IPO, and reported a net income of $18 million on total revenue of $303 million in Q1, CNBC reports. “I think of Taboola as a […]
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IronSource Goes Public; Amazon Making Big Demands Of Vendors
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. SPAC Attack Mobile gaming monetization and ad tech provider IronSource began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), with the goal of raising $2 billion in capital at an $11 billion valuation. The IPO comes […]
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Apple’s ATT Takes A Bite; Blackstone Buys Into Simpli.fi
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. iO-SOS More than 70% of Apple devices have upgraded to the latest operating system, with the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) privacy policy. And now mobile advertisers and ad tech are starting to feel the pain, writes Eric Seufert at Mobile Dev Memo. The loudest […]
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Magnite Lays Off; Mozilla Tracks
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Staff Cuts Magnite is laying off about 6% of its staff following its $1.17 billion acquisition deal with video supply-side platform SpotX, Adweek reports. Buying SpotX is part of Magnite’s CTV growth plan, after already taking on Telaria. Though the acquisition nearly doubled […]
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BuzzFeed Goes Public And Acquires Complex; Microsoft Bringing Android Apps To Windows
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Buzz Words Talk about a potential media juggernaut. BuzzFeed announced Thursday that it has acquired Complex Networks and went public via a special purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC). Read the release. BuzzFeed’s merger with Complex, a style, culture and music publisher, is part of a […]