Allison Schiff is the managing editor of AdExchanger, where she covers mobile, Facebook (sorry, Meta), measurement, privacy and the app economy. Allison received her M.A. in journalism from the Dublin Institute of Technology in Ireland (her favorite place), and a B.A. in history and English from Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.
The Washington Post said Wednesday that it will adopt the Unified ID 2.0 framework – the first publisher to do so after a string of ad tech companies have tossed their hats into the ring over the past few months. The Post will allow advertisers to transact using the ID on its own site and will […]
Facebook’s got its claws out, calling Apple’s move to require an opt-in for the IDFA “an attack on personalized advertising” that will harm small businesses, creators and kittens. Well, not kittens, necessarily. It’s just that it’s a little hard not to be facetious when a multibillion-dollar company that just got hit with twin antitrust lawsuits […]
It’s getting cozy over in Unified ID 2.0 Land. SSP OpenX said on Tuesday it plans to adopt the open source ID, the initial development of which was spearheaded by The Trade Desk. Unified ID 2.0 proposes using hashed and encrypted email as the basis for identity and as a replacement for third-party cookies. Specifically, […]
Third-party cookies are going away, mobile ad IDs will soon be harder to come by – and the advertising ecosystem is responding with a flurry of deterministic identifiers of its own. LiveRamp has an ID, Nielsen’s got one, the industry is starting to coalesce around Unified ID 2.0 and, on Wednesday, Neustar launched Fabrick ID. Fabrick […]
Vox Media is close to making more money from first-party audience targeting than from third-party targeting mechanisms. This year, Vox expects that the majority of its audience line items will be rooted in first party, said AJ Frucci, VP of Concert and programmatic at Vox Media. Last year, third-party targeting made up the vast majority, […]
“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 Allison Schiff, senior editor at AdExchanger. It’s part of a series of perspectives from AdExchanger’s editorial team. “Are you ready to order?” The waiter notices my confusion. “Oh, yeah, we don’t […]
Neustar has a call to action for members of the W3C’s Improving Web Advertising Business Group: Don’t forget about measurement. In early December, Neustar added a proposal to the Privacy Sandbox with the aim of triggering a conversation about how privacy-safe measurement could be done on Chrome without third-party cookies. The proposal is named after […]
Google is planning to give people the ability to limit the number of personalized alcohol and gambling ads they see. The feature, teased on Thursday, layers in additional controls within ad settings for sensitive ad topics. The controls will roll out on YouTube in the United States by the end of this year, and across […]
Well, the other shoe dropped. Actually two shoes. On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission and, separately, 48 attorneys general, led by New York’s Letitia James and including AGs from the District of Columbia and Guam, sued Facebook for the same thing: alleged illegal monopolization of the social networking market. (Read the FTC’s full suit here […]
DTC subscriptions may seem like one of the first candidates to get cut from the monthly bill as consumers become more cost conscious during the pandemic. It’s hard to justify having the latest fashions sent directly to your door now that the conference room table is the kitchen table. And do you really need that […]
“On TV & Video” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. After this exclusive first look for subscribers, the story by AdExchanger’s Allison Schiff will be published in full on AdExchanger.com. Jukin Media trawls the social universe for the most shareable video content from everyday people that it can […]
Too bad there isn’t a Black Friday deal on Facebook inventory – because it’s getting pricey. Following a massive 38% spike in CPMs on Facebook between September and the week before the election, prices dipped back to more normal levels during the first week in November before climbing back up again, according to digital agency […]
The first half of 2020 was pretty lean. This year is on track to be the slowest since 2015 in terms of deal activity, according to LUMA Partners. But set the table and get out the gravy boat, because strategic M&A started to pick back up in Q3 and the momentum has continued into the […]
The more the merrier. App attribution company AppsFlyer has a late breaking addition to its $210 million investment round, which closed in January: Salesforce Ventures. Although Salesforce is only taking a small percentage of AppsFlyer as part of the round extension – less than 1% of the company, according to AppsFlyer CEO and co-founder Oren […]
IBM has been banging the drum for years about the role artificial intelligence can play to support everything from cancer treatment to retail personalization. More recently, though, IBM has started to prioritize practical advertising applications of its cognitive computing system, Watson. Last month, IBM brought its AI to ad tech through partnerships with Xandr, Magnite, […]
Guess telcos really aren’t that into ad tech after all. On Thursday, Norwegian telco Telenor sold cross-device company Tapad to Experian in a transaction advised by LUMA Partners. Experian is acquiring 100% of Tapad for a cash consideration of roughly $280 million. Not too shabby for an ad tech company getting sold in 2020. Tapad’s […]
Snap is embracing direct response advertising with both arms. It’s been launching performance-focused ad products for Snapchat at a regular clip over the past couple of years, and on Thursday it added a few key new features to its app ads toolkit. Performance advertisers on Snapchat can now optimize for installs directly from Lenses, implement […]
Nielsen is developing an identity resolution solution to help advertisers measure audiences across platforms after third-party cookies and other mainstay identifiers go ta-ta. “We’ve been working aggressively on our cross-platform journey for the last couple of years,” said Mainak Mazumdar, Nielsen’s chief data officer. “But we accelerated this when we started to see what was […]
It’s supply-side platform week for Unified ID 2.0. On Tuesday, PubMatic signed onto the initiative, one day after Magnite and Index Exchange signaled their support for the open source project. The goal of Unified ID 2.0 is to create a standard identifier for the ad industry using hashed emails as a replacement for third-party cookies. […]
YouTube launched audio ads in beta on Tuesday to help monetize the moments when people are listening to music but not actively looking at their screen. The 15-second ads, which were in a limited test phase since late 2019, are available to all advertisers globally and can be bought through DV360 and Google Ads. Audio […]
For nearly a year, advertisers using Facebook’s conversion lift studies tool were unknowingly being fed faulty data. A code error caused the reached conversions metric to be undercounted for conversion lift tests conducted on Facebook by several thousand advertisers between Aug. 15, 2019, and Aug. 31 of this year. Advertisers use conversion lift studies, a […]
Magnite is the latest ad tech company to throw in with the Unified ID 2.0 initiative, an open source ID spearheaded by The Trade Desk. On Monday, Magnite said it will adopt the ID initiative to use encrypted and hashed email addresses as the basis for a standard identity replacement for third-party cookies. The Trade […]
Ad viewability is now table stakes, but audibility measurement is still in its very earliest stages. It’s been two years since the Media Rating Council released its standard for digital audio measurement – defined as two continuous seconds of play in a fraud-free environment and with the volume on – and there still aren’t any offerings on […]
TV measurement is hamstrung by household-level data. Despite the scale of set-top box and smart TV data, there’s no easy way to connect ad exposure on a television to a specific person within a household. “And if you don’t break TV data down to the person, it’s very difficult to do cross-media measurement or run […]
Newly public livestreaming TV service FuboTV hired its first SVP of ad sales in June. “That in itself speaks to the importance that we’re putting on the ad sales piece,” said Diana Horowitz, the Scripps and Comcast vet now filling that newly created role at Fubo. Fubo, which reported its first earnings in early November, […]
It’s a toss-up what’ll happen about a national privacy law, even under a Biden administration. Depending on the result of the upcoming Georgia Senate runoffs, Congress could be headed for at least two more years of gridlock. But with the recent passage of the Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) – which amends and strengthens the existing […]
Mobile ad networks have been busily stress testing SKAdNetwork in preparation for Apple’s IDFA changes – but they’ve been doing so with one arm tied behind their back. For months, two of the most crucial pieces of information necessary for attribution were absent in the postbacks coming from SKAdNetwork, which is Apple’s API for enabling ad […]
Demandbase’s July acquisition of B2B marketing vendor Engagio is bearing fruit. On Tuesday, Demandbase released a new version of its platform called Demandbase One, which combines its existing marketing automation and account-based marketing offerings with inbound B2B marketing capabilities from Engagio. Demandbase One includes the core Demandbase ABM platform, which uses predictive analytics to help […]
Spotify is acquiring podcast monetization and publishing platform Megaphone from its parent company, Graham Holdings, in a deal reportedly worth $235 million. The acquisition, announced Tuesday, underscores the streaming audio platform’s ongoing big bet on programmatic and is only the latest in a series of moves Spotify has made to support its growing podcast platform. […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Celtra is a DCO OG. The company, founded in 2016, has been in the dynamic creative optimization business for nearly 15 years. But last year, Celtra stopped classifying itself as a DCO provider and embraced a new category: […]
