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OPINION: On TV & VideoCloser Partner Relationships Can Reduce Video Ad-Classification Fraud
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Sam Appelbaum, general manager at Yellowhammer Media Group. EMarketer predicts that nearly three quarters of all display advertising will be transacted programmatically this year. Programmatic video isn’t far behind, but the premium in price […]
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Retargeters Feel The GDPR Pressure; Facebook Tests Local News Feed
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Getting To Yes? Tracking restrictions in Europe and on popular web browsers like Safari are putting retargeting companies in a bind – and “desperate times call for desperate in-browser messages,” reports Ross Benes at Digiday. Some retargeters now drop in-browser messages that opt in users […]
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The Amazon-ification Of Luxury Cosmetics; Snapchat's Stagnant Growth
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Makeup Breakup Amazon is the largest online cosmetics seller, but many top brands see the platform – “a scroll of endless products on white background” – as incompatible with luxury appeal, reports Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The EU’s top court ruled last month that luxury […]
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New Fund MathCapital To Provide Seed Funding; Viacom Acquires WhoSay
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Something Ventured MediaMath CEO Joe Zawadzki and Undertone co-founder Eric Franchi are starting a $5 million fund, MathCapital, to invest in industry startups, Lara O’Reilly reports for CMO Today. It’s a modest sum, with a slightly more ambitious fundraising target of $25 million. MathCapital’s […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoAre We Measuring TV Ads With The Equivalent Of The Click-Through Rate?
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Baylen Springer, chief product officer at Leavened, a R2C Group company. When I started my career, the ad server was just taking hold, making digital advertising measureable. We were off to the races. First, click-through rates: “This […]
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Apple's App Store Hot Streak; Facebook's TV Fixation
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Appy New Year Since Apple launched the iOS App Store in 2008, developers have made more than $86 billion on the platform. Of that, $26.5 billion was made last year, a 30% jump over 2016, according to an Apple news release. The company touts […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderGDPR: A Shiny Sword In The Fight For Audiences
“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. A lot has already been said about how General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ePrivacy offer an opportunity for publishers and advertisers to kickstart a new, […]
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Renewed Interest In Search; Streaming Video Audiences Dislike Ads
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Search For Attention Search advertising has been a sleepy mainstay of digital marketing mixes for the past half-decade, but this year “is poised to experience a late-stage renaissance,” writes Forrester associate analyst Brandon Verblow. For one thing, search budgets will benefit because other ad […]
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Amazon Sells CPGs On Alexa Tie-Ins; Checking In On Ad Tech Headcounts
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. “Alexa, I’m Out Of Bleach” Amazon is working with top-spending CPG brands on marketing deals for its Alexa voice-activated devices, reports CNBC. “For example, Alexa may suggest to a shopper who previously bought Clorox’s Pine-Sol to consider buying its disinfecting wipes.” Amazon is also […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderContextual Targeting’s Resurgence In The Year Ahead
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is by Paul Bannister, co-founder and executive vice president at CafeMedia. Contextual targeting is one of the original forms of targeted marketing, hearkening back to the days when Chevrolet might have run an ad next to a local newspaper’s feature story on […]
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JPMorgan Chase Builds Tech For YouTube Screening; EU Weighs New Regulations Around Data
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. OurTube JPMorgan Chase isn’t satisfied with YouTube’s brand safety review, so it’s taking matters into its own hands. The bank’s in-house programmatic team has begun to whitelist channels where it can buy media at scale, Business Insider reports. With 17 filters, the bank uses […]
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Snapchat's Creative Innovation; Google's Lead In Mapping Tech
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Creative Innovation Snap unveiled a new ad format: sponsored animated filters, which are branded augmented-reality lenses for its outward-facing camera. Dunkin Donuts launched the first campaign using the format Thursday. Snap, which claims 3 billion snaps using animated filters are created on its platform […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderAfter The Pivot To Video, Publishers Must Find A Way To Monetize
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Justin Festa, chief digital officer at LittleThings. It seems inevitable that publishers will at some point take a crack at video. With its high CPMs and promise to reach more readers, the move is […]
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German Regulator Eyes Facebook Data Collection; The Guardian's Monetization Odyssey
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Sprechen Sie Data? Germany’s top antitrust enforcer is going after Facebook with a new interpretation of competition law. According to German officials, Facebook is abusing its power as the dominant social media platform in the region, where it has more than 90% market share, […]
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Bloomberg Debuts Twitter Streaming News Service; Facebook Demotes 'Engagement Bait'
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Time Is Now Bloomberg went live Monday with TicToc, its 24-hour streaming news service on Twitter. The channel will stream a mix of original Bloomberg newsroom programming and curated video and other content drawn from Twitter users. Rather than selling ad space like […]
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P&G Appoints Peltz; Refinery29 Cuts Staff
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Peltz On Board Activist investor Nelson Peltz has been named to the P&G board. Peltz declared victory following a November recount, but lost by 498,312 shares in a final tally in December. However, in a letter to shareholders, company Chairman and CEO David Taylor said Peltz […]
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Undisclosed Facebook Ads Return; Ad Trackers Quantified
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Moore Shady Facebook Ads Alabama residents were being targeted with partisan Facebook ads leading up to Tuesday’s divisive Senate election. And despite tightening its standards around political ad disclosures earlier this fall, Facebook isn’t giving a lot of information about where those ads were […]
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Rubicon Joins First-Price Auction Club; Diageo Is Latest Brand To Demand More Transparency
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. First Price, So Nice Next month, Rubicon Project will begin offering two flavors of first-price auctions, CTO Tom Kershaw shared in a blog post Monday. The exchange will select the winner of an auction on a first-price basis. From there, buyers will have two […]
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Apple Nabs Shazam; Snap's AR Tailwinds
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Abracadabra, Apple Shazam Competition among music streaming platforms – already a cutthroat category – will heat up even more with Apple’s acquisition of ad-supported music recognition app Shazam. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but TechCrunch sources peg it below Shazam’s $1 billion […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderPublishers Must Conquer Thorny Issues Before Using Data Co-Ops To Fight The Duopoly
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Erik Matlick, founder and CEO at Bombora. The data cooperative has emerged as a strategic weapon for publishers in the battle for online ad dollars against the Facebook and Google duopoly. In data co-ops, […]
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Oath Sues Mozilla Over Search Deal; Latest Mobile Commerce Data
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Sly As A FireFox Verizon’s Oath is in a legal dispute with Mozilla in response to the browser operator’s surprise decision to break its contract and revert to Google as the default search provider for Firefox. Marissa Mayer struck the original deal in 2014 […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderTales From The Ads.txt Trenches
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ian Hewetson, vice president of client services at Eyereturn Marketing. Forget this summer’s solar eclipse. We’re witnessing something far more unusual right now: the universal endorsement of a single system in the ad tech […]
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Malware Surfaces In Facebook Ads; Holding Companies Prepare To Spend Big On Amazon
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Malware Blues ProPublica found dozens of politically charged ads on Facebook that inject malware into consumers’ computers. The ads come with provocative headlines about hot-button political issues and targeted Facebook users likely to click based on political ideologies. Some ads caused computers to freeze […]
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Marketing And Procurement Make Nice; Health Goes Mobile
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Fixing Procurement Recent industry meltdowns around brand safety, fraud and agency rebates have put “extra pressure … on the relationship between marketing and procurement,” Marketing Week writes in a new primer on overcoming tensions between the two departments. Marketers often bristle as their procurement […]
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Facebook Rethinks Pre-Roll; Snapchat Makes Gains
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Facebook Mulls Pre-Roll “We don’t need to do pre-roll because our model is not one where you come to Facebook to watch one piece of content, you come to look at a feed,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said as recently as July. But the company […]
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OPINION: The Sell Sider
Publishers And The Inevitable Pivot To Video
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Justin Festa, chief digital officer at LittleThings. It feels like every other week another publisher is making a pivot to video or a joke on social media talking about why the pivot to video […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoWhy Snapchat Could Become The Next Must-See TV Network
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Anupam Gupta, chief product officer at 4C. Snap was recently in the headlines with disappointing financials for its second quarter in a row, but the company is already one step ahead thinking of ways […]
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Snapchat Redesign Splits Media And Social; AppNexus DSP Polices Ads.txt
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Snappy Look A major redesign of the Snapchat app aims to “separate the social from the media” by splitting out interactions with friends and followers from news and media content, writes CEO Evan Spiegel in an Axios op-ed. Read it. Snap is trying to […]
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Maserati Taps Accenture's 'Experience'; Did Covert Russian Ads Meddle In Brexit Vote?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Service Station Maserati tapped Accenture Interactive to be its “experience agency of record,” a term that encompasses brand strategy, content production, campaign management and, yes, programmatic. Specifically, Accenture will help Maserati take programmatic operations in-house, Campaign reports. Universal McCann and Starcom will continue buying […]
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China's Tencent Could Rival Alphabet And Facebook; CPG C-Suite Turnover Accelerates
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. China’s -opoly Will China be home to the next advertising and digital media powerhouse to rival Alphabet and Facebook? Tencent has been flexing its muscles in advertising, and if those ambitions come true, it could pose a threat to Alibaba, Facebook and Google in […]