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Amazon Web Services took another step in its development as a key ad tech integration hub on Wednesday, with the general launch of a product called Entity Resolution.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. On The Spot Spotify added 10 million subscribers since last year, bringing its total to 220 million paid users. Most streaming TV services would hire a troupe of trumpeters to announce that news. For Spotify, though, it isn’t enough to assure investors of […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Follow Your Intuition, I Guess Intuit, which owns Mailchimp and accounting software like TurboTax and QuickBooks, is launching an ad network called SMB MediaLabs, Adweek reports. As the name implies, Intuit’s media business is a “small business-focused media network.” But it’s focused on […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Overconsumed The 80/20 rule stating that relatively few people or causes create the vast majority of results isn’t new.  But there’s a CPG craze underway to capture narrow slices of outsized customers. For instance, a growing and vocal subset of Americans proudly own […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Do We Ever Not Kick The Can? After Google Chrome first committed to third-party cookie deprecation, big advertisers and Google partners frankly didn’t expect the initial deadlines to remain. Google Ads and Chrome weren’t ready, not to mention needing the UK data regulator’s […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Just Watch The Ads, Please Netflix nixed its $9.99 per month Basic plan in the US and UK. It’s the streaming giant’s cheapest ad-free offering, which it likewise removed in Canada only a few weeks ago. Turns out, Netflix has also been hiding […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pour One Out For Pub Tech During the heady days of gonzo social traffic and zero-dollar interest rates, publishers were launching their own software businesses. But that cottage industry has practically disappeared without so much as a whimper. Vox Media, one of the […]

Third-party data companies have a bad rap lately, especially in Europe. But to be a successful programmatic player requires serious adaption skills, said incoming Captify CEO Mike Welch.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The True Ad Tech Tax Expedia rolled out a long-awaited loyalty program this week called One Key spanning its three flagship brands: Vrbo, Expedia and Hotels.com. This summer should be big for travel, Bloomberg reports, so travel companies are eager to capitalize on […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trading Up “Investors had gotten away from an industry they used to love, but the fundamentals are still there when you consider what percent of global ad spend is bought programmatically today versus what will be programmatic five or 10 years from now.”  […]