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OPINION: The Sell Sider
Sellers.json Is Great, But It Could Be Better
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Adam Schenkel, senior vice president of global commercial development at GumGum. Even if you haven’t followed the 2019 launch of the sellers.json spec, the thinking behind it should sound like a positive move forward. […]
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Walmart Ecom Growth Offsets Weak Store Sales; Zuck In Belgium
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Writing On The Wal’ Walmart weathered a disappointing holiday sales season on the strength of its relatively new and fast-growing ecommerce business. “Ecom was ahead of plan and stores were behind plan,” Walmart President and CEO Doug McMillon told investors Tuesday during the retailer’s […]
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AdExchanger Politics: Talking Shop With Bernie Sanders’ Analytics Partner; California Beckons
Welcome to AdExchanger Politics, our news roundup in which senior editor James Hercher tracks the latest developments in political advertising, augmenting our political marketing commentary and news coverage. Want it by email? Sign up here. Sen. Elizabeth Warren embraced a new model for political campaigns last year with upfront investments in her campaign’s in-house media and data expertise. […]
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Google May Pay Publishers For Content; Gillibrand Proposes New Data Protection Agency
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. License To Bill Google is considering a shift in its relationship with news publishers, by paying them direct licensing fees for the right to publish content in a potential free news service, according to The Wall Street Journal. Caveats: Financial terms of the deals […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderPublishers Must Unite Around A Consumer-Facing Consent Standard
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Mark Dye, chief strategy officer at Bombora. Digital publishers have long been challenged to hold onto their fair share of the market. But publishers may never have felt more squeezed than they do now, as […]
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GumGum Surfs The Contextual Wave; Kraft-Heinz To Increase Budgets, Cut Agencies
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Stick To It GumGum began life as an image-recognition startup that served contextual ads alongside relevant images. The company muddled along during a period when contextual was not exactly in vogue, but now appears well positioned to seize on headwinds faced by user-level addressability. […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingCCPA Makes The Digital Advertising Industry Feel Like Charlie Brown
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Gary Kibel, a partner in the digital media, technology and privacy practice group at Davis & Gilbert. The rollout of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has been, perhaps, the most […]
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Hearts & Science Adds Marketing Technology Division; Roku Haggles With Broadcasters
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hearts & Science & Mar Tech Hearts & Science is launching a mar tech division with more system integrator capabilities. “And in doing so the agency hopes to beat back increased competition from consulting firms offering similar services,” The Wall Street Journal reports. The […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderBuy-Side Transparency: The Next Wave Of Consolidation
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, executive vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. While the cookie bonfire rages on for the next two years, there’s another spark igniting change in the ecosystem: supply-chain transparency. It may […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingGrowth Hacking Foreshadows The Future Of AI-Powered Marketing Teams
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Lomit Patel, vice president of growth at IMVU and author of “Lean AI,” which is part of Eric Ries’ “The Lean Startup” series. Big data, programmatic access to high-performance media […]
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Streaming Keeps Growing Like Crazy; Omnicom Gears Up For A Data-Related Acquisition
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Subscription Overload? The amount of time consumers spend with media increased by one hour and 24 minutes between 2018 and 2019 to almost 12 hours per day – and that time continues to fragment across media channels as new content offerings hit the market, […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingWill SSPs And DSPs Mature, Or Will We See Another Race To The Bottom?
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Rotem Shaul, CEO at Primis. In the old world of second-price auctions, the need for a supply-side platform (SSP) vs. demand-side platform (DSP) ecosystem was clear. There were hundreds of DSPs, […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoIt’s Key To Study Existing TV Attribution Practices
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jane Clarke, managing director and CEO at the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM). Thanks to the glaring lack of standardization across the industry, TV attribution providers working with advertisers and agencies offer various […]
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Google's FitBit Acquisition Gets Scrutiny; The Market For Marketplaces
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Champing At The Fitbit Regulators around the world are taking a long look at Google’s proposed $2.1 billion takeover of the wearables company Fitbit. It’s not a typical antitrust situation, because Google doesn’t compete directly with Fitbit and the company isn’t the leader in […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingWhy Addressability Will Flourish In A Cookieless World
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Scott Howe, CEO at LiveRamp. Google’s recent announcement that Chrome will end support for third-party cookies didn’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention. Safari and Firefox had […]
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How Google Bundles Cloud With Ads And Media; ViacomCBS Plans New Streaming Service
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Us Too Newly merged ViacomCBS will throw its hat into a crowded ring of streaming services with a new service that spans its whole content portfolio, joining its current OTT vehicle CBS All Access. Nothing is set in stone, but executives are considering an […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingWhy We Need A Browser-Based Identity Standard
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Nishant Desai, director of technology and partnerships at Xaxis. Major advertising and media platforms are responding to privacy regulations in ways that threaten to make it harder for marketers to […]
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Mobile Ad Blocking On The Rise; Google Chrome To Suppress Some Video Ads
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Out Of The Blocks Mobile ad blocking is on the rise. More than 527 million people around the world have an ad blocker installed on their mobile devices, up 64% since 2016, according to a report from PageFair and Blockthrough. In the United States, […]
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Will Google Divest Its Ad Platform?; New CEO At LinkedIn
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What Will Google Do? Heightened regulatory scrutiny of Google’s ad platform business has sparked an internal discussion about whether to get rid of its ad tech vendor stack (the artist formerly known as DoubleClick), sources tell The Wall Street Journal. “[Federal and state scrutiny] […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingWhy Facebook Ads May Not Work As Well Anymore
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Kunal Gupta, CEO at Polar. Facebook last week announced that its Off-Facebook Activity (OFA) tool would be available to more than 2 billion users worldwide. The tool debuted in a […]
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Instagram's 2019 Ad Rev Was $20B; Companies Target Law That Protects Big Tech
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Oh The Places You’ll Grow Instagram reportedly brought in about $20 billion in ad revenue last year, more than a quarter of Facebook’s total earnings, Bloomberg reports. Those numbers aren’t confirmed – the sources are anonymous and Facebook doesn’t break out Instagram revenue. But […]
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The Power Of Testing
“Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Maha Madain, head of marketing at Union Bank. How does the marketing of a regional brand with a limited budget win in a market dominated by national brands? That’s the challenge that many organizations face today. […]
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Accenture To End Media Auditing; Disney Hugs Hulu Close
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Accenture Ends Its Audits Beginning in August 2020, Accenture will no longer provide services around media auditing, benchmarking and agency pitches, Seb Joseph reports for Digiday. In ending its auditing services, Accenture will no longer face a conflict with its media buying services. Writes […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoIt’s Context, Not Length, That Determines The Success Of Mobile Video
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jonathan Stringfield, vice president and global head of business marketing, measurement and insights at Activision Blizzard Media. Video advertising on mobile – a reasonably recent phenomenon – has increasingly spurred conversations about optimizations and […]
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Roku Cuts Fox From Its Platform; Videa To Close March 31
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Roku’s Horse And Carriage Roku temporarily removed Fox network apps from its OTT platform on Friday, bringing a new twist to TV carriage deals in streaming media. Fox’s distribution contract expired on Jan. 31, and the broadcaster didn’t close a new contract with Roku […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderPublisher Advertising And Marketing Teams Are Starting To Converge
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Kerel Cooper, senior vice president of global marketing at LiveIntent. There’s a famous line between editorial and revenue at every legitimate publisher. Newsrooms aren’t influenced by the teams responsible for revenue, and nary do […]
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The End Of Shared Identifiers?; Ikea Distances Itself From Data
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Fun While It Lasted A few years ago, programmatic companies started sharing online ad identifiers as a way to improve reach and targeting. But with Chrome phasing out third-party cookies in two years, the days of shared IDs and cookie-based consortia are on the […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingAs AI Use Expands, We Need Standards To Identify Content Not Created By Humans
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Krish Sailam, global senior vice president of programmatic solutions at DWA, a Merkle company. Some may think artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) personalization is all about altering banners and landing pages. […]
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AT&T Loses 4.1M Streaming And Pay-TV Subscribers In 2019; News Corp Launches Knewz.com
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Cost Of Content AT&T is still bleeding pay-TV subscribers as it beefs up its investment in HBO Max, which is driving losses in the short term. Consolidated revenues for the quarter were $46.8 billion but would have been $48 billion without the HBO […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingPrivate Data Clean Rooms Aren’t Just A Walled Garden Tool
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Peter Vandre, chief analytics officer at Dentsu Aegis Network Media. The idea of a safe place where marketers can analyze sensitive data has been around at least since the early […]