The Big Story features a roundtable discussion with the AdExchanger editorial team on the week’s top news stories. New and previously published episodes are available on this page and on your preferred podcast app.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This week “The Big Story” is all about coming together. First up, our editor Alison Weissbrot outlines how the Comcast-Cox-Charter sales consortium NCC Media and AT&T-owned Xandr are each in their own way trying to aggregate more addressable TV inventory. You’ll recall that multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) are granted two minutes of inventory to […]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Publicis Groupe spent billions on a tech company. That déjà vu you’re feeling? Could have a little something to do with the $4.4 billion Publicis just paid for Epsilon. This week on “The Big Story,” the team looks at this massive acquisition on the heels of Dentsu buying […]
The Big Story is a podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. This week on “The Big Story,” a bipartisan bill (Hey, it exists!) seeks to protect consumers against the encroachment of dark patterns. IBM jettisons the remnants […]
The Big Story is a podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. We ride hard and fast this week on “The Big Story,” with three tales of industry upheaval. First, we consider the prospect of a Google Chrome […]
It’s a challenging time for agencies, so it’s not surprising that the 4A’s Decisions conference in Washington, DC, this week served as an industrywide pep talk. But in many ways the messages about being strategic partners, transparency and incentivizing collaboration have been playing on repeat over the past two years. This week on “The Big […]
The Big Story is a podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. Agencies are moving to buy connected TV (CTV) inventory, but wherever there’s construction, there’s dust. The issue is that agency buying teams are at odds over […]
The Big Story is a podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. Online advertising grew up around the second-price auction, where the winning bidder pays the second-highest bid. It’s great for buyers because they have the opportunity to […]
The Big Story is a podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. It was a pressure cooker last week in ad tech land – but then again, when is it not? Comcast feels the heat from AT&T’s Xandr […]
When the world changes, sometimes you need to change with it. But evolution doesn’t always happen – or sometimes you just end up moving in the wrong direction. This week on “The Big Story,” AdExchanger looks at RockYou’s bankruptcy and, on a much larger scale, the major pain at Kraft Heinz. With RockYou, the publisher-slash-ad […]
The Big Story is a podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. In 2019, US digital ad spend will finally hit the milestone we all knew it would reach: It will surpass traditional ad spend, according to eMarketer. […]
The Big Story is a breezy podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. The IAB’s Annual Leadership summit wrapped this week and increasingly, the show has moved to focus on DTC companies like ThirdLove, the startup underwear brand […]
The Big Story is a breezy podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. This week on “The Big Story,” the AdExchanger team takes a good long look at how GDPR has impacted Google and its policies, which, in […]
The Big Story is a breezy podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. The past couple of months have been big for TV. Yes, the Super Bowl is just around the corner and Netflix et al. are hyping […]
The Big Story is a breezy podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. It’s a fine January! By which I mean GDPR fine. On Monday, France’s Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) levied a 57 million […]
The Big Story is a breezy podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. On “The Big Story” this week, the team stirs some alphabet soup. Rejuvenated after the annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas to worship at the mighty […]
The Big Story is a breezy podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. The desert sun rises in Las Vegas, emerging from the eastern horizon like a roll-up LG OLED TV. The device manufacturers – reps from TV […]
The Big Story is a breezy podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. 2018 was a year of tremendous change for the advertising industry. Google’s power consolidated, AT&T debuted its ad aspirations and Facebook floundered in the court […]
The Big Story is a breezy podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. While we hate to be the bearers of bad news as the holiday season nears, the supply-side tech provider OpenX closed out the year with […]
The Big Story is a breezy podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. On Tuesday, WPP CEO Mark Read uncorked his plan to get the holding company back on his feet. While it wasn’t hugely surprising – Read […]
What’s a coco de mer? A double coconut, which is what Martin Sorrell is cultivating with S4. The holding company he once described as a peanut grew into a coconut – also his description – when it acquired MediaMonks in June. With its second acquisition with MightyHive on Tuesday, the coconut has doubled up. From […]
The Big Story is a breezy podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. The Wild West days of ad tech are over. Any new startup that wants to stick around must show it can be a business first, […]
Another holding company top dog is leaving the park. The first was Publicis Groupe’s Maurice Lévy in 2017. Then it was WPP’s Martin Sorrell in April, followed by MDC Partners’ Scott Kauffman in September. And on Wednesday, Dentsu Aegis Networks CEO Jerry Buhlmann also announced his exit. This week on “The Big Story,” the gang […]
The Big Story is a breezy podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. With the midterms over and the recounts – where applicable – just beginning, the AdExchanger team looks at the redemption of polling data after a […]
The Big Story is a breezy podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. When giants move, everyone takes notice. This week on “The Big Story,” the AdExchanger team looks at some small but significant shifts in Amazon’s and […]
