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Ryan Joe

Ryan Joe

Managing Editor

As managing editor at AdExchanger, Ryan Joe helps edit and oversee the staff writers’ daily coverage. He often reports on issues surrounding data management as well as the confluence of media, creativity and technology. Prior to AdExchanger, he was senior editor at Direct Marketing News. He also spent three years as an analyst at Datamonitor, where he focused on customer interaction technologies (ie: contact centers). His articles about the traditional publishing industry occasionally show up in Publishers Weekly. He is a writer, but he is not from Brooklyn.

Articles By Ryan

  • WPP Hopes The Bleeding Has Stopped, Looks To Growth Opportunities

    WPP has struggled to grow in recent years, as key clients in fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) reduce spend and its traditional creative agencies underperform. While the tech vertical and its media business are relative bright spots, they aren’t big enough to buttress the entire holding company. WPP’s Q3 performance, which the company reported Friday, […]

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    The Big Story: It’s A Dataxu Out There!

    Ten years after dataxu raised its first round (and $87.5 million later), the demand-side platform has found its forever home. Roku intends to acquire the company for $150 million, a move that gives it the tech it needs to launch an open marketplace similar to what Xandr is doing with AppNexus. Because dataxu plugs into […]

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    The Big Story: Rapid-Fire Rounds

    Change is in the air. To wit, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, topping the polls of Democratic presidential candidates, has made the breakup of big tech into a pet issue on the campaign trail. At the same time, regulatory and privacy concerns are driving state legislation that could transform the way consumer data is collected and, thus, […]

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    The Big Story: G Is For Privacy, P&G Is For Frequency Capping

    In the lead-up to Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Google enacted a bevy of changes that affected how advertisers could track and measure campaign performance on Google properties. This week on The Big Story, we look at those changes and the fallout with advertisers. Editor James Hercher examined some of Google’s biggest recent policy […]

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    The Big Story: Warren's War On Facebook

    Elizabeth Warren has big plans for Facebook: Break it up. This week on The Big Story, the team places Warren’s plan, and her campaign strategy, under the microscope. The Verge published the transcript on Tuesday of a Q&A Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had with his employees, in which he addressed Warren’s plans to break up […]

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    The Big Story: Oracle And Google Roll With The Punches

    Owning a business that relies on consumer data is riskier than ever – in terms of both public sentiment and potential regulation. And this risk has caused Google and Oracle to make structural changes. This week on The Big Story, we look and what happened and why. Earlier this week, Oracle laid off 10% to […]

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    The Big Story: How The CCPA Will Affect Your Life

    Like it or not, the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) is an inevitability as of Jan. 1, 2020. We’ve tried to be as comprehensive as possible covering the law and its potential impact. Earlier this year, new bills were introduced in an effort to influence that impact. Some bills – tweaking some of the language […]

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    The Big Story: The Great Ad Tech Reformation

    Are we in the midst of an ad tech resurgence? It’s way too early to say, but public companies like The Trade Desk, Telaria, Cardlytics and Rubicon Project have been outperforming recently. This week on The Big Story, the team looks at what the heck is going on. Certainly business models have matured – no […]

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    The Big Story: Cleanliness Is Next To Platform Data

    Amazon’s clean room is … well, not open for business. But it exists! James Hercher and Alison Weissbrot on Tuesday reported on a closed beta test run by Amazon that will give ad buyers access to more of its vaunted data. This week on The Big Story, we’ll see what they uncovered in terms of […]

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    The Big Story: Targeting Targeted

    The practice of sending targeted messaging to people online is under fire – and not just in Europe. Both Apple and Mozilla are restricting the ability to target on their respective browsers, and it’s forcing Google’s hand with Chrome. This week on The Big Story, we take a look at some recent news related to […]

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    The Big Story: Sizing Up The Competition

    After more than a decade apart, Viacom and CBS have gotten back together. In many ways, though, this is a marriage of necessity. The new ViacomCBS entity must find its foothold in a world that’s been disrupted by Netflix and Amazon, faces further disruption from Google, Facebook and Apple – and where peers such as NBCU, […]

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    The Big Story - RTB, R Not TB?

    Real-time bidding (RTB) is at a crossroads, thanks to Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This week on The Big Story, we check out what the future holds for a tactic that revolutionized the way ads online were bought and sold. While final decisions aren’t imminent – European data authorities are only investigating into 2020 […]

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    The Big Story - The Fire That Burns Brightest

    TV buyers brightened when Amazon Fire TV made some of its inventory available through the DSPs dataxu and The Trade Desk, bringing real-time bidding to the purchase of CTV inventory. This week on The Big Story, the team talks about that development and examines the state of RTB in programmatic TV and what sort of […]

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    The Big Story: Ad Tech Fight Club

    Ad tech titans face off with each other this week as The Trade Desk takes a stand against Google, the FTC fines Facebook and TikTok… well, I suppose its denizens talk about invading #Area51. First up, Sarah Sluis broke wide open a scuffle about standards – namely, how will Google’s exchange bidding product be defined […]

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    The Big Story: Layser Sights

    Working with Google can feel like an arms race. Header bidding threw Google for a loop, since it took away its priority in the waterfall auction. But Google rebounded when it released a product called exchange bidding more than a year ago. Since then, it has continuously tweaked its auctions to accommodate – or control […]

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    The Big Story: Here Comes A New Challenger

    This week on The Big Story, it’s all about quality – the quality CPM (qCPM). It’s a new – but actually kind of old – way for ad buyers to figure out whether they’re getting good value for the inventory they purchase by adding indicators of quality, such as viewability and brand safety, to the […]

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    The Big Story: The Summer Of Uncertainty

    Nothing says Fourth of July like a big helping of hot dogs, potato salad and The Big Story podcast. It’s the middle of the year (well, a little past the middle), and this week, the AdExchanger team takes stock of what happened so far and what will likely happen in the year to come. The […]

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    The Big Story: Data Plus Math Plus ACR Plus Regulation

    While most of the interest in TV happens in front of the glass, there’s a great deal of intrigue taking place behind it. This week on The Big Story, we dive into some of the most recent data dealings, with LiveRamp buying Data Plus Math and how much of that TV-generated data is collected and […]

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    The Big Story: The Pod-Cannes

    The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is just about over, and media, tech and marketing execs are stumbling  back to the airport to begin the arduous trek home. It was a more muted festival this year. MediaLink, the Cannes Lions’ sister company, positioned a giant white tent along the pier, which served as the […]

  • Disney’s Data Honcho Discusses Its Unique Approach To Audiences, The Disney ID And Integrating Fox

    At Disney, no one messes with the Mouse. The brand is extremely protective of its reputation among consumers, one largely built on trust. At the same time, Disney is a data-driven publisher with an epic amount of O&O. There’s ABC, ESPN, Fox, Hulu, movies, hotel resorts, cruises, theme parks and everything else that formed the […]

  • Cannes 2019: As TV Broadcasters Make Their Pitch, Linear Is The Next Frontier

    Two years ago, Disney’s presence at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity focused on social inventory within the Disney Digital Network. This year, Disney has a lot more to pitch, with its refined data strategy, audiences available across all of its different properties, theme parks included, the acquisitions of Fox assets like National Geographic […]

  • LinkedIn Paid Just Under $300M For Drawbridge

    Industry insiders were largely puzzled when LinkedIn said it would buy cross-device linkage company Drawbridge in May. LinkedIn buried the announcement in a blog post, and the LinkedIn-Drawbridge synergies weren’t obvious, so it made sense to assume the purchase was either an acqui-hire or a fire sale. But, according to two AdExchanger sources, LinkedIn paid […]

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    The Big Story – Tumultuous TV!

    TV buying is changing and, goodness, it seems we’re in the storm before the calm. There are different operating systems, content owners, data owners, platforms on which to buy and ways to measure. And all the vendors and MVPDs offering solutions to “simplify” everything sometimes seem to add to the complexity. This week on “The […]

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    The Big Story: Amazon Gets (Ad) Served

    This week on “The Big Story” we start by winding down the epic of Sizmek. The near-final chapter of this saga came last week with Amazon’s acquisition of two of Sizmek’s most coveted assets: its ad server and its dynamic creative optimization (DCO) technology. Of the two, Sizmek’s ad server has always been the notable […]

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    The Big Story: A Home For Drawbridge, A Birthday For GDPR

    Wait, LinkedIn bought cross-device connection company Drawbridge? Very few saw that one coming, especially since LinkedIn hardly even announced it. Despite the unlikeliness of this pairing, there might be both rhyme and reason. This week on “The Big Story,” the team delves into LinkedIn’s unexpected purchase of Drawbridge. Certainly Drawbridge has faced tremendous headwinds, and […]

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    The Big Story: Who Dares Wins

    This week on “The Big Story,” we travel to Washington, DC, tour some walled gardens and fly into the clouds – before coming back to earth to piece together the evolving TV landscape. First pit stop: AppNexus founder Brian O’Kelley spoke at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing called “Understanding the Digital Advertising Ecosystem and the […]

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    The Big Story: Upfronting And Fingerprinting

    After a long winter, the birds and beasts come out of hiding to have their fill of the greenery now flooding the land. That’s right, the upfronts are here, the money is flowing and everyone wants a piece. This week on “The Big Story,” we look at the news coming out of all the advertising […]

  • AT&T’s Xandr Data Can Now Be Applied On Non O&O Properties

    AT&T’s ad unit Xandr on Tuesday unveiled a publisher network called Community, which lets advertisers use Xandr data on video inventory across WarnerMedia’s O&O properties as well as a selection of outside publishers. The WarnerMedia properties include CNN, TNT, TBS, truTV, B/R Live, Otter Media and Warner Brothers, and the video partner publishers include VICE, […]

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    The Big Story: Google-Fu

    Google always seems to be the big story, and this week is no exception. Because when Google so much as sneezes, the advertising industry shakes. Naturally, the reports that updated privacy settings were coming to the Chrome browser had many advertisers worried. If they were as draconian as Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention mechanisms, they could […]

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    The Big Story: Strange New World

    We take Google’s unstoppable growth for granted. And yet, on Monday, it might not have stopped, but it certainly slowed – dropping from 28% in Q1 2018 to 17% a year later. Seventeen percent growth isn’t bad for most companies, but it’s worrying for Google. And it’s still not clear exactly what happened. This week […]

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