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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Programmatic Merger Kepler Group has acquired UK-based Infectious Media for an undisclosed sum. Read the release. The combined global programmatic agency company has 400 professionals across London, Singapore, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco and Costa Rica. The firms’ combined client roster includes Hasbro, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Wondery To Behold Amazon is in talks to buy podcast production network Wondery, reports The Wall Street Journal, at a value of more than $300 million. According to WSJ sources, Wondery predicts its revenue will exceed $40 million in 2020, with 75% of […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Digital Wins, And So Does The Triopoly Digital is expected to account for the majority of US ad spending this year, an industry shift driven (or forced?) by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to WPP media buying unit GroupM. GroupM expects US ad spend to […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Snap Is Back It’s been a loooong, dark year for publishers, but there has been at least one bright spot: Snapchat. Digiday reports that publishers are netting higher revenue for their Discover content within Snapchat, both year over year as well as quarter over […]

Too bad there isn’t a Black Friday deal on Facebook inventory – because it’s getting pricey. Following a massive 38% spike in CPMs on Facebook between September and the week before the election, prices dipped back to more normal levels during the first week in November before climbing back up again, according to digital agency […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Amazon’s CTV Boom Amazon may be a little late to the CTV advertising game, but it’s catching up quick thanks to its troves of shopper data and the built-in base of brands already selling on its platform, The Drum reports. Most of Amazon’s CTV […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Betting On Ecom Sayonara, retail. Walmart is selling the Tokyo-based chain Seiyu after previously unloading its operations in the United Kingdom and Argentina. As The Wall Street Journal reports, the retail giant threw in the proverbial towel after 18 years in Japan, selling most […]

GroupM recently promoted veterans Kieley Taylor and Amanda Grant to global head of partnerships and global head of social, respectively, as part a strategic move aimed at strengthening the company’s relationships with Google as well as Amazon, Spotify, Twitter and others. Taylor, previously global head of social, will focus heavily on Google as she designs […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Antitrust Shade Add to cart: antitrust lawsuit. EU regulators filed antitrust charges on Tuesday against Amazon, accusing the ecommerce giant of using its access to data to gain an unfair advantage over the merchants on its platform, the AP reports. The news comes just […]

Over the past two years, NBCU has made inroads in the commerce arena, building capabilities that drive transactions directly and measuring those conversion events. The strategy makes sense: If you know your ad inventory drives purchases, you might as well go full Amazon and own the whole funnel. And NBCU has executed on that vision […]

Baseball legend Yogi Berra once famously said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Berra wasn’t referring to the 2020 presidential election, of course, but the quote is apt when it comes to polling data in the days and weeks leading to Election Day, which, according to most reports, were way off base and […]

Amazon reported a record Q3 that was driven in part by a 51% increase in advertising revenue and buoyed by a surge in ecommerce due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The online retail giant’s accelerated push into advertising netted $5.4 billion in revenue – up from $3.6 million a year ago – with the company telling […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Risky Business Publishers got pummelled by the pandemic, and advertisers nervous about brand safety (and their overzealous blocklists) were at least partly to blame. With that in mind, the IAB Tech Lab accelerated the rollout of its Content Taxonomy 2.2 this week to help […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Facebook’s Game Plan Facebook’s new video game streaming service, launched this week, is part of a big push to sell more ads. Facebook selling more ads? Who woulda thunk it. The service, which allows games to be played from the cloud and streamed directly to a […]

TikTok marked its first foray into ecommerce by announcing a global partnership deal with Shopify on Tuesday, a deal that it said will help more than a million merchants reach new audiences and drive sales on the popular video-sharing app. The integration deal with Shopify – the Canada-based ecommerce giant – is intended to help […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Upfront Tax Advertisers might be holding out on their TV commits, but that delay will likely cost them, according to Tim Peterson of Digiday. Because of the pandemic, TV advertisers are clamoring to buy based on a calendar year rather than the traditional upfront calendar, […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Mike Farrell, senior director of integrated digital strategy at Sidecar. Advertising on Amazon requires you to balance both offensive and defensive tactics. The overall goal is to appear alongside competitors and […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Rob Aksman, chief strategy officer at BrightLine. Unlike in the tech-inhibited world of pre-connected TV, CTV has the power to unlock precise measurement and targeting at scale. In most US households today, TV content is […]

2020: The ongoing pandemic is accelerating the growth of ecommerce. Amazon: Hold my beer. EMarketer forecast that worldwide sales on Amazon Prime Day, which kicks off on Oct. 13, will surge 43% year over year to hit $9.91 billion. Last year’s Prime Day sales totaled $6.93 billion. Nearly $10 billion worth of sales in a […]

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This week on the Big Story, we look at trust in the market as cataloged by LUMA Partners, and the antitrust case against Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon, as cataloged by a House Judiciary subcommittee. LUMA VP Conor McKenna swings by to lead us through Q3 M&A activity in a wide-ranging conversation that looks at […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hola, Jellyfish Indie agency Jellyfish expanded its tentacles in Latin America on Wednesday with the acquisitions of digital media companies Reamp and San Pancho. This marks the latest move by Jellyfish to grow into a global network. The price tags weren’t disclosed, but Jellyfish’s workforce grew […]

by Ryan Joe and Allison Schiff “To put it simply, companies that once were scrappy, underdog startups that challenged the status quo have become the kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons.” In a 449-page report released Tuesday, the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust criticized the business […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Big Break Breaking off Instagram and WhatsApp from Facebook would cost the social media giant billions of dollars, ruin users’ experience and erode security, the company argued in a document prepared by Facebook lawyers. With the House Antitrust Subcommittee expected to unveil the findings of its […]

The CVS Media Exchange (CMX), CVS Pharmacy’s new ad network, launched in August. But it was in the works before COVID-19 hit. The pandemic makes for interesting timing, though. “Ecommerce and omnichannel shopping were already on the rise,” said Erin Condon, VP of front store and omnichannel marketing at CVS Health. “But in a post-COVID […]

It’s not the biggest surprise that Google, The Trade Desk and MediaMath were pegged as “leaders” in Gartner’s third Magic Quadrant for ad tech. Google is Google, while The Trade Desk and MediaMath have both been in the DSP space for a long time. But there are a few new entrants on the scene. Beeswax, […]

Sarah Hofstetter is a board member at Campbell Soup Company and president at ecommerce analytics company Profitero. She will appear next month at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO conference, in conversation with Elizabeth Bennett, VP of global ecommerce at Kraft Heinz. Register to hear their session, along with more than 40 others, at Programmatic.io. CPGs and food […]

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ad Cloud Out Adobe is charging ahead with its plan to phase out the managed service ad network part of its Advertising Cloud business. Back in June, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen referred to this type of largely IO-based network buy within Advertising Cloud as “no longer […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Seraj Bharwani, Chief Strategy Officer at AcuityAds. Since the advent of One-Click checkout, advertisers have realized that awareness, consideration and purchase can all happen in seconds for consumable products. Thus, the […]