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Connected TV Growth Driven By Adults; Moonves Mess Could Trigger CBS-Viacom Merger
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Media Diet On average, US adults spend 11 hours per day consuming media, with six of those hours spent watching video, according to Nielsen’s Q1 Total Audience Report. Read it. Total video consumption grew 11 minutes over the previous quarter, with six of […]
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WPP Homes In On A CEO; Telcos Prep Ad-Blocking VPNs
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Read Favored To Run WPP Speculation has swirled for months about who will succeed Martin Sorrell as CEO of WPP, and we may finally have an answer. Mark Read, CEO of Wunderman and co-COO at WPP since Sorrell’s departure, has emerged as the top […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoLong Commercials, The Flash-Matic And The Four Cs: Lessons For TV Marketers
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Mike Rosen, executive vice president of advanced advertising and platform sales at NBCUniversal Media. It’s the rallying cry of today’s TV doomsdayers who believe that consumers want to avoid all advertising on TV: “Shut […]
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Opera IPOs; Fake Sellers Surge On Amazon
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Opera, The Other Operator The Norwegian software company Opera, maker of eponymous web browsers and mobile apps, IPO’d on the Nasdaq stock exchange last Friday, raising about $115 million. Opera has a 2% sliver of the global browser market but hopes to grow along […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderThe Media Audience Of The Future Demands An Inclusive Walled-Garden Approach
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an independent audience strategy consultant. Today’s increasingly enhanced privacy era requires a closer collaboration between media companies and their audiences, based on a true value exchange, trust and transparency. Users who […]
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MDC Partners Cuts Execs; DoJ Investigates Sinclair And Tribune
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Transformation Diet MDC Partners has cut five employees from its leadership team. The firm declined to break out which roles were affected. “As we look to the future and refine the structure of our organization to best support our clients and agency partners, […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoThe Telcos Just Strengthened Their Arsenal In The Fight For Brand Advertising Dollars
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Lance Neuhauser, CEO at 4C Insights. The battle over the millions of brand advertising dollars that were routinely funneled to linear television has heated up to the point where it now resembles the climax of […]
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Viacom Targets AwesomenessTV; Ad Trades Angry At Apple
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Young Guns Viacom is negotiating to acquire AwesomenessTV, according to Bloomberg. AwesomenessTV is a joint venture between NBCUniversal, Verizon and Hearst that originated as a YouTube channel. It’s not the first time this year that Viacom has tried to acquire its way to a […]
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Verizon Courts Online TV Partners; Pinterest's Ad Rev Nears $1B
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Race For 5G Verizon is in talks to partner with Google and Apple to provide online television when it releases its first 5G network in select cities later this year. Verizon fell short in developing an online TV service and wrote off its […]
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Google, The Guardian And MightyHive Test Ads.txt; Skinny Bundles Fattening Up
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Still Spoofin’ The Guardian teamed up with Google and MightyHive to investigate the state of domain spoofing on the open exchange and found Ads.txt has been an effective deterrent when implemented by buyers, but that many still pay for fake inventory on unauthorized exchanges. […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoWhy Connected TV Needs A Proper Home
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Paul Sluberski, regional vice president of sales and video, digital activation East, at Brand Networks. With eMarketer predicting 88 million households streaming over-the-top (OTT) content and 181.9 million US viewers watching connected TV (CTV) […]
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WPP Assesses WPP China; BuzzFeed Rebrands
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. WPP In A China Shop WPP is exploring selling 20% of WPP China, its agency subsidiary in the market, to the Chinese media triumvirate of Tencent, Alibaba and China Media Capital Holdings, reports Sky News. The discussions are in the early stages, but WPP […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderWe Must Fix The Runaway Infrastructure Chain Before It Derails The Programmatic Market
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ian Davidson, vice president of platform demand at OpenX. Why would exchanges add to their enormous server-farm costs by sending multiple bid requests to a single demand-side platform (DSP) for the same impression opportunity? […]
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Disney Victorious In Fox Bidding War; Epsilon Hits A Rough Patch
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Claws Down The bidding war between Comcast and Disney for 21st Century Fox’s entertainment assets has finally come to an end, with Comcast backing down after Disney’s $71.3 billion counterbid. Comcast will focus instead on beating Fox to acquire Sky, the British satellite TV […]
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DTC Brands Do It In-House; Europe Slaps Google
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Direct Control Direct-to-consumer upstarts are giving established brands a run for their money, and are also wreaking some havoc in the agency world. That’s because DTC brands are for the most part digitally native and do their advertising in-house. Despite its $1 billion acquisition […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderWhy Outsourced Ad Ops Require An Onshore And Offshore Approach
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ron Roccuzzo, managing director of ad operations at The 614 Group. Weighing whether to outsource a publisher’s ad-operations needs is an important decision that should never be taken lightly. There are many factors to […]
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Vox Media To License Publishing Software; Data Privacy Suit Dismissed
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. SaaSy Publisher Vox Media will license its digital publishing software Chorus to other publishers, The Wall Street Journal reports. Twenty media companies are in talks to license Chorus already, which allows publishers to create, monetize and distribute articles for a recurring fee. In the […]
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Higher Ed Embraces Advanced Ads; Who Influences The Influencers?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A+ Marketing Universities are taking a play out of the data-driven marketing playbook to recruit students for graduate programs. Houston Baptist University worked with higher education consulting firm EAB to create a demographic and psychographic profile of its students and target lookalikes on Facebook […]
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Amobee Wins Videology; Instagram Drives Facebook Traffic
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Auction Exit Amobee won the Videology bankruptcy auction this past weekend with a bid of $117.3 million with an adjustment of -$16.1 million for a net purchase of $101.2 million. British broadcaster ITV was also in the bidding for Videology’s assets, driving up […]
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Brands Believe In Blockchain; Twitter Tramples Fake Accounts
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Blockchain Fever While still buzzy, advertisers are starting to test blockchain as a tool that can shine a light on the digital supply chain. Marketers such as AB InBev, AT&T, Kellogg’s, Bayer and Nestle are using the technology to measure the flow of their […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoLocal TV Needs Open Standards For Automated Buying And Selling
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Shereta Williams, president at Videa. Local TV advertisers and broadcasters have heard it time and time again: “Digital’s got it all figured out.” And then, “Why can’t you be more like digital?” TV will […]
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Snap's Predicament Has A Bright Side; Europe's War On Silicon Valley
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Snap’s OK Instagram may have run away with Snap’s stories format, but – consolation prize! – Snap is benefiting from all the exposure. According to Digiday, Snap story ads are now seen as a great value, selling at CPMs of just $1.88 versus as […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderIs It Too Late For Publishers To Take Back Control?
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rohan Lala, director of media activation at IPONWEB. It is no secret that many of today’s digital publishers have serious concerns about the state of ad tech. They have yielded a huge amount of […]
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How Vista Operates; TV Player Philo Raises $40M
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. PE Playbook Vista Equity Partners, which owns a majority stake in Integral Ad Science and Mediaocean and took Marketo private, uses a 110-point formula to revamp software companies, The Wall Street Journal explains. Vista cuts people costs by focusing on recent grads who score […]
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AT&T's Big Plans For HBO; Amazon's 'Prime Day' Ad Pitch
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Grow Big Or Go Home HBO is at a crossroads and its new corporate manager plans to make a change, a recording from a recent company-wide town hall meeting suggests. John Stankey, the AT&T executive who now oversees the Time Warner media properties, says […]
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Facebook Defies Gravity; WPP Vs. Martin Sorrell
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Zuck Abides Readers might be forgiven for thinking this has been a brutal year for Facebook, given the long string of scandals and investigations the company has faced. But in some important ways, Facebook is humming along as smoothly as ever, according to […]
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Quartz Acquired; Oath Doubted
The Business Of Media Atlantic Media is selling its mobile-first business property, Quartz, to Uzabase, a Japanese media company with a business news app and corporate intelligence tool. The deal is valued at between $75 million and $100 million, Quartz reports. Founder and editor-in-chief Kevin Delaney and publisher Jay Lauf will become co-CEOs as founder […]
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Hulu Hangs In The Balance; Verizon Shutters Go90
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Outlook Hazy The fate of Hulu depends on the outcome of Comcast’s and Disney’s bidding war for 21st Century Fox. Whoever wins will own a majority stake in Hulu, and both companies have very different visions for the platform’s future. Comcast wants to invest […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderFor Publishers, The CDP Forges A New Path For Opportunity
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ameet Shah, senior director of global technology, publisher and data strategy at Prohaska Consulting. For the last 10 years, publishers have been using programmatic media technology to drive greater scale and revenue. Real-time bidding […]
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Some Pubs’ Opt-Ins Fail GDPR; Buyers Clamor For Acxiom’s Connectivity Biz
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Consent Mismanagement Publishers have wildly divergent approaches to consent management, and some may not sufficiently comply with GDPR. Since the regulation is vague about how publishers should convey consent to their audiences, many still use practices that violate the law, such as pre-ticked opt-ins, […]