Senior Editor
James covers the intersection of commerce, media and advertising technology.
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James Hercher
Articles By James
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Prebid.org Is At A Crossroads, And Must Now Decide Whose Interests It Serves
Prebid’s future is up for grabs as the open-source project grows apart from the IAB Tech Lab, the industry’s self-appointed standards authority.
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PayPal Finds A New Transaction Pool With Retail Media
PayPal Ads is continuing its new product announcement whirlwind with news that it’s partnering with the commerce media startup Rokt to bring non-endemic advertisers to some PayPal and Venmo post-payment pages.
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How Google Stands In The DOJ’s Ad Tech Antitrust Suit, According To Those Who Tracked The Trial
The remedies phase of the Google antitrust trial concluded last week. And after 11 days in the courtroom, there is a clearer sense of where Judge Leonie Brinkema is focused on, and how that might influence what remedies she put in place.
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How The Beauty Brand Milani Bridges Online Beauty Trends And Mass-Market Retail
AdExchanger caught up Milani CMO Jeremy Lowenstein about how the beauty brand fits into mass-market retail, in contrast to DTC and social-based brands.
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The Ad Context Protocol Aims To Make Sense Of Agentic Ad Demand
The AI advertising agents will need their own trade group eventually. For now though, a bunch of companies are forming the Ad Context Protocol, or AdCP.
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How Retail Media Takes Over Everything
Retail media has broken through some critical threshold, and is no longer the straightforward digitalization of shopper marketing budgets.
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Scott Spencer’s New Startup Wants To Help Users Monetize Their Online Advertising Data
What happens when an ad tech developer partners with a cybersecurity expert to start a new company? You end up with a consumer product that is both a privacy software service and a programmatic advertising ID.
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Wall Street Turned Against Ad Tech – But May Learn To Love It Again
What can pureplay ad tech companies do to clean up their rep on the Street?
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DOJ v. Google: How Judge Brinkema Seems To Be Thinking After Week One
Where the DOJ v. Google ad tech antitrust trial stands after one week’s worth of remedies arguments.
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DOJ v. Google: Judge Brinkema Calls For Less Ad Tech “Window Dressing” In The AdX And DFP Divestiture Debate
Day Two of the remedies phase of the Google ad tech antitrust trial was a grueling back-and-forth about the future of Google Ad Manager.