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Have we reached peak retail media yet? Seems like everyone’s got one! A comic styling by guest artist Michela Buttignol.

Likes and followers are not without merit, but engagement is not directly causal of sales rates. What should marketers consider instead?

A few years ago, when the RMN trend was taking off, who would have thought that retailers would fully embrace the walled garden model. But that’s what appears to be happening.

The number of young people using TikTok as a search tool – almost 40% – created a perfect opportunity for TikTok and its competitors to introduce search ads. 

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Video Jockeys The Trade Desk publicly adopted the IAB Tech Lab’s new video protocols, which create more specificity around the type of online video ads being bought, Adweek reports. The news worried some publishers who run low-quality videos, like easily ignored spots or […]

Macy’s, the largest department store chain in the US, announced a partnership with The Trade Desk for self-serve advertising powered by Macy’s data.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The LUMA Escape LUMA Partners – the investment bank of ad tech, essentially – is having a major fracture.  Brian Andersen, a co-founder and partner, along with partners Mark Greenbaum and Dick Filippini, are all exiting over a disagreement with co-founder and CEO […]

Freddie Liversidge, HP’s global head of media, explains the benefits and challenges of building an in-house digital media agency from the ground up.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Stores Of Value From regional chains to the largest department and grocery stores, seemingly every retailer is in the retail media network business.  Retail ad spend forecasts have leapt to $25 billion and more. Except those numbers mostly track Amazon’s growth, plus a […]

Hey, readers! This is James Hercher, AdExchanger’s senior editor and your escort into the world of commerce media. This week, we examine an interesting DTC marketing trend whereby online brand building and ecommerce advertising experts are testing their mettle by launching and operating brands of their own. They’re eating their own dog food, so to […]

The most interesting nuggets coming out of the NewFronts presentations this week are candid moments that reflect the debate raging between broadcasters, ad buyers and alternative measurement providers looking to dethrone Nielsen.

Rakuten Advertising announced the launch of Audience Engine, a CRM onboarding and optimization product that treats affiliate more like search and social media.

Trebel Music has released a ChatGPT-powered product called Trebel AI, which instantly generates personalized playlists in response to natural language queries. Advertisers on Trebel AI can target users in the moment based on their intent.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Layser Focused Stephanie Layser, former News Corp VP of ad tech, data and identity products, joined Amazon Web Services a year ago as global head of publisher ad tech solutions. And she just recorded a podcast with Marketecture about what she’s been up […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Can’t Spell “Brain Drain” Without AIs Silicon Valley giants bet the house on machine learning software to automate their businesses, and bringing that same automation to advertisers.  Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft execs used the word “AI” more than 200 times in investor calls […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Audiences Worth Waiting For Criteo announced the “next phase of its integration with Shopify,” which is an update to its Shopify App Store. It’s not news that’ll set the world on fire, but Criteo maintains a drumbeat of Shopify integrations. Criteo’s Shopify merchant […]

The new hot trend in platform advertising is to put the machines in charge of everything. It’s true of Google, true of Meta and, even more so as of this week, it’s true of Amazon.

Hey readers! This is James Hercher, with the latest AdExchanger Commerce dispatch. This week, we’ll highlight a few recent CPG earnings reports, during which legacy food and beverage brands appear more optimistic about their staying power than their startup competitors.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Retail Wagging The Dog Retail media networks are advertising businesses. Usually. Sort of. For many retailers, the data-driven ad practice serves different purposes. Lowe’s announced new digital products for contractors and other professionals, reports Retail Dive.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Currency Contest Can the TV industry’s currency debate get any hotter? (For something so in the weeds, that is.) Guess so. Nielsen has formally repudiated the broadcaster-backed joint industry committee’s (JIC) video standards agreement. In a letter to OpenAP, the data vendor behind […]

While a number of companies have already made a name for themselves in the data clean room category, it has become clear that no single solution, or even a single data clean room model, will emerge as the industry standard.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Black And Blue Twitter has removed blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts as promised, as in accounts that don’t subscribe to the new $8-per-month Twitter Blue program. The rollout has, of course, been a botched job.  Some celeb accounts, including Lebron James, Stephen […]

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Purity Test Independent ad tech companies – namely, The Trade Desk and Magnite – have taken their first awkward steps across the exchange with products that bridge directly to publishers (in TTD’s case) and right to agencies (in the case of Magnite).  This […]

One-third of Publicis Group’s revenue comes from its data and tech business, which includes Epsilon and Publicis Sapient. Maintaining a differentiated revenue mix is one reason why Publicis is growing faster than the global economy, particularly since the pandemic, chairman and CEO Arthur Sadoun told investors on Thursday.

Motion raised $6 million this week and is riding a wave of creative-focused martech, such as Memorable AI raising $2.5 million last October and ad tech vet Omar Tawakol launching Rembrand in February.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Europe? More Like ‘You’re Out’ In 2018, a handful of American ad tech startups abandoned the EU when their services became (more likely than not) verboten. Drawbridge, for instance, left Europe when it became clear that regulators had cross-device graphs in their crosshairs. […]

Retail media, meet streaming. Kroger Precision Marketing is sharing first-party behavioral data with Disney Advertising for targeting streaming audiences and measuring the results.

Retail media is exploding, but there are some obstacles standing in the way of growth. The main issue is a lack of standardized measurement, which is why it’s time for retailers to work together, says Kristi Argyilan, SVP of retail media at Albertsons Companies.

Mail Metro Media partnered with Firework to integrate a new vertical video player across dmg’s sites that features interstitial ads and TikTok-esque clickable overlays.