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Pew On Teenagers' Media Use; Understanding Google's GDPR Moves
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Fountain Of Youth The online media habits of US teenagers have changed dramatically since Pew Research last conducted a major survey of 13-17-year-olds. From 2014 to 2015, Facebook was used by 71% of US teens, then the only social platform with a clear majority, […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoConnected TV: A Hero Is Rising
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Brett Wilson, vice president at Adobe Advertising Cloud. From Achilles to Hercules to Wonder Woman, many classic mythical figures and comic book superheroes are the offspring of a deity and a mortal. These characters are […]
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Mary Meeker Drops Deck; The Fortnite Juggernaut
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Follow The Trends Mary Meeker delivered her famous “Internet Trends” deck (this one clocking at 294 slides) at Recode’s Code conference Wednesday. Smartphone adoption and internet user growth are slowing, but time spent online continues to rise. US adults spend on average 5.9 hours […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderCould GDPR Create A Server-To-Server Golden Age?
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ivan Ivanov, chief operating officer at PubGalaxy. In the months before enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) began, publishers – and the wider digital industry – were unsure how the new legislation would […]
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Pubs Turn To YouTube; Google Gains From GDPR
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Find Your Audience Some publishers, still reeling from Facebook’s news feed algorithm change, are migrating to YouTube. Hearst, for example, is focusing more efforts on long-form episodic content from flagship magazines like Seventeen, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle and Cosmopolitan, Business Insider’s Tanya Dua reports. Hearst […]
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Apple Extends Lead In App Monetization; Duopoly Hit With GDPR Suits
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Many Appy Returns It’s a truism that iOS users and Apple App Store downloads generate more value for brands than downloads that happen through Google’s Play store. But over the past couple of years Apple has been running away with the market, according to […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoFor OTT Giants Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Roku And Apple, It’s A Jump Ball For Brand Budgets
“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 new reality of consumer channel choice has thrown a wrench into the decades-old media model that funnels millions of brand advertising dollars to linear television. Competition for these […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderThe Open Exchange’s Value Prop Keeps Getting Better
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jay Friedman, COO at Goodway Group. In the past two weeks, I’ve been to two supply-side platform (SSP) summits and spoken in depth to more than a dozen publishers. I’ve learned a lot. In short, […]
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Twitter And Facebook Unveil Political Ad Fixes; Netflix Market Cap Surpasses Disney
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cleaning The Nest Twitter debuted a set of political advertising policies it will have in place for the 2018 US midterm elections. Read the blog post. Political advertisers will have to verify their identities and that they are based in the US, either by […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoMuch Work Must Be Done Before Digital Video And TV Can Converge
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jeff Lucas, head of Americas sales at Oath. The TV and digital video advertising industry is in the midst of a major transformation. Consumers are overwhelmingly cross-platform, engaging with multiple devices at the same […]
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Brands Bid Adieu To Long-Time Agencies; TV Budgets Are Safe But Not Secure
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Splitsville The long-term agency-client relationship is fading into the past, as major clients like HSBC, Campbell’s and Ford give up decades-long relationships for a fresher approach. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Jim Farley, Ford Motor Co.’s president of global markets, said […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderDon’t Drown In Your Data Lake
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by James Curran, founder and chief product officer at Staq. Publishers are starting to ramp up their investment in data, especially as they gain more prowess in programmatic advertising. Many are throwing around the idea […]
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Roku's Powerful Ad Biz; Twitter Pitches Publishers On 'Timeline Ads' Network
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. CTV Scrapper Roku has maintained a leading position in the streaming device market in spite of heated competition from Google’s Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV, according to eMarketer data. And that’s despite Roku’s shift from pure hardware sales to a business model […]
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How Videology Stumbled Into Bankruptcy; Trust Busters Vs Google
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rewinding Videology Videology, once the agency world’s preferred solution for online video, declared bankruptcy earlier this month after a tough few years. Digiday recounts how in the early days of digital video, Videology’s ad network model offered TV buyers an easy and scaled way […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoWhen Is It Best To Use Social Video In A Media Plan?
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Sarah Wilson, associate media director at DWA Media. By 2021, 1 million minutes of video content will move over the internet every second, according to Cisco. That’s 17,000 hours of video – every single second. […]
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Ads Come To Facebook Stories; Google Extends Olive Branch To Publishers
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Story Time Advertising is coming to Facebook Stories, a sleeper hit on the Facebook platform that draws 150 million daily active users. Ads will be 15- to 20-second videos that users can skip and are for now limited to branding initiatives, TechCrunch reports. Click-throughs […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderLeveraging A DMP As A Sales Channel And Not Just A Platform
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jaclyn Stewart, senior director of strategy at The 614 Group. Many publishers today are wrestling with whether they should decouple their data from their impressions. Do they want to help advertisers understand their audiences […]
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Acxiom Is Shopping LiveRamp; YouTube Evolves Revenue Model
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Onboarder Offloaded? Acxiom is shopping LiveRamp, a linchpin of data-driven advertising, Mike Shields reports for Business Insider. LiveRamp, the strongest player in the data-onboarder category, would have many suitors, with marketing tech giants like Adobe, Oracle, Salesforce and IBM likely to make a bid. […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoBridging The Transparency Gap Between TV And Digital
“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. Much has been written about the erosion of transparency and trust in the advertising ecosystem. The result is an existential […]
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Turner Turns On Nielsen; Comeback Time For Net Neutrality?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Network To Get Work Turner President David Levy gave an impassioned call for television advertisers to embrace audience targeting and abandon the Nielsen currency standard at the broadcaster’s upfront presentation on Wednesday. Nielsen’s metric “no longer fully captures how to successfully measure an audience […]
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Sorrell Speaks; Facebook Changes How View Tags Work
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Sorrell Speaks Martin Sorrell had plenty on his mind as he took the stage at Luma Partners’ DMS conference on Tuesday, so much so that moderator Terry Kawaja could hardly get a word in. Sorrell’s most surprising comments were on Amazon’s ad business. He […]
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More Turmoil At WPP; Facebook Suspends 200 Apps
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Turmoil At The Top More drama at the top of WPP, as shareholders rally against Chairman Roberto Quarta’s reelection after his handling of CEO Martin Sorrell’s exit last month. The concern was sparked by a report from advisory firm Glass Lewis, which said it […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoThe Trojan Horse In The Living Room
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bryan Noguchi, media director at Caffelli. Between Cambridge Analytica and Facebook, the impending murky chaos of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the random data breaches and straight-up malfeasance from any number of companies […]
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Tim Armstrong, Keith Weed Eyed For WPP's Top Job; Amazon Nixes Google PLAs
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Fresh Perspective Oath CEO Tim Armstrong and Unilever CMO Keith Weed are being considered for the top job at WPP Group, Financial Times reports. Armstrong, who ran AOL during its $4.4 billion sale to Verizon and now oversees the combined AOL and Yahoo subsidiary, […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderIn the Age of AI, Publishers Need Authenticated Audiences
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, founder and CEO at Rebel AI. Though Facebook has only recently come under fire for fake user profiles on its platform, the problem of fake profile data has long plagued programmatic media […]
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Videology Files For Chapter 11; Publishers Eye Apple News
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. TV Killed The Video Star? Videology, a video ad network that tried to reinvent itself as an advanced TV company, plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, The Wall Street Journal reports. Amobee has offered $45 million for the company’s assets, which likely will […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoTV Advertising Measurement: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Philip Inghelbrecht, co-founder and CEO at Tatari. To date, TV has mostly been measured through a baseline and lift model. It is a framework that works well for linear TV, since many people watch the […]
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WPP Goes 'Bespoke' For BP; Unlockd Vs Google
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bespoke Petroleum BP has consolidated its corporate, fuel and castrol marketing business under WPP after an almost year-long review process. The holding company will launch a new unit called Team Energy to provide services for advertising, media, investment, digital, branding, PR and research. Talent […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderRumors Of The Demise Of Cookies And Banners Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Erik Requidan, vice president of programmatic strategy at Intermarkets. In advertising, we just love the death watch. Publishers often hear rumors like “Desktops are dead!” How many times have we heard the bell toll […]
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Even Regulators Aren't Ready For GDPR; YouTube Still Growing Like A Weed
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. GDPR Cops Aren’t Ready Even the regulators charged with enforcing GDPR aren’t prepared for it. Seventeen of 24 EU regulators surveyed by Reuters say they don’t have the necessary funding to enforce the law. Watchdogs need more resources, but many EU governments haven’t updated […]