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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Prime Real Estate So what the heck does Walmart want with TikTok? The retailer, which has shifted toward ecommerce under CEO Doug McMillon, sees an opportunity to use the app as a virtual storefront while supercharging its burgeoning media business, The Wall Street Journal […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Programmatic Please Programmatic ad spend is up from the trough of the pandemic. Through the end of July, total programmatic spend grew 11% since April, and the number of advertisers running programmatic ads increased 36% since January, according to MediaRadar. That’s a rebound from […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Taking On The Giants Kroger is getting into the ecommerce game by launching an online marketplace open to third-party sellers. The grocer is working with ecommerce specialist group Mirakl to offer “tens of thousands of additional goods” outside of its usual grocery sales fare, […]

“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 Allison Schiff, senior editor at AdExchanger. It’s part of a series of perspectives from AdExchanger’s editorial team. A lot of people in the ad industry probably don’t know exactly what Google’s […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. GDP … U The US gross domestic product fell 9.5% in the second quarter – the biggest dip on record, the Commerce Department reported on Thursday. That’s a $1.8 trillion loss due to, what else, the ongoing pandemic. The collapse was “unprecedented in its […]

Big tech CEOs – collect ’em all. Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos (making his first appearance before Congress) convened virtually on Wednesday for a historic hearing hosted by the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust delving into the market power of online platforms. The hearing (which was ironically livestreamed on Google-owned YouTube) is […]

The COVID-19 crisis has sent Criteo spinning with a mix of headwinds and tailwinds. Criteo earned $438 million in Q2, a 17% decline from the same period last year, according to its earnings report on Wednesday. By comparison, Criteo’s Q1 2020 revenue had dipped 3% year-over-year. And the company attributed $100 million in lost revenue […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Viva La Pérsonalization The French government will loosen archaic laws this month that have undercut French broadcasters for years. The biggest change will be to repeal a 1993 law that says all French households must receive the same broadcast stream. So French TV stations […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Falling Out Of Favor Cord cutting was already rising before the pandemic, and a lack of new programming and live sports this fall will only accelerate that trend. This week, Netflix said it doesn’t believe production will resume in the United States before 2021, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Big-Inbox Retail Verizon Media added a new feature for Yahoo Mail accounts, in partnership with Walmart: inbox shopping. Walmart will have a dedicated banner atop Yahoo inboxes, where users can search for groceries, add them to a cart and purchase without leaving their inbox. […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Anti-Antitrust What happens when companies being investigated by the FTC or the DOJ poach staffers for their own defense? Unfortunately, it’s not a hypothetical, writes antitrust economist Hal Singer at The American Prospect. Amazon and Facebook both recently hired staffers from the Senate Judiciary […]

As COVID-19 cases spike across America, the joyous reopening is on pause. (Unless you’re Disney World, because apparently the virus has no effect on the land of enchantment and childhood dreams.) But having gone through the initial shutdown in March, brands are more prepared this time around. They’re pulling back on some of the more […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Called To Account Snapchat users may finally start to see brands posting organic content. There are 30 brands testing account pages, including Ben & Jerry’s, Target, Tim Hortons and Gucci. The new brand landing pages feature videos, custom AR lenses and a native storefront […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Peacock Shows Its Feathers NBCUniversal’s Peacock, which goes live tomorrow, was supposed to debut around the 2020 Tokyo Olympics – until the coronavirus pandemic ensured there would be no 2020 Olympics. Business Insider details how NBCU rearchitected its Peacock marketing campaign with the Olympics […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Playing Politics Facebook is considering nixing political advertising this year in the leadup to the 2020 US presidential election, Bloomberg reports. That decision would mark a major change for Facebook, since CEO Mark Zuckerberg insists on the importance of enabling political discourse and outreach […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Fighting Up Streams NBCUniversal will likely launch the streaming subscription service Peacock next week without Roku or Amazon Fire TV distribution deals, CNBC reports. That’s a tough pill to swallow, considering the two platforms own about 70% of the connected TV market. NBCU’s disputes […]

In January, Google Chrome said it would phase out third-party cookies over the next two years. No problem, right? The W3C, which creates common standards for web browsers, will figure out an alternative. Except, man, it’s certainly taking its sweet time. Two years might sound like ages but it’s not, when you consider how foundational […]

While Facebook, Google and Amazon have all been adamant that they don’t sell people’s data, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which went into force on July 1, has a very broad definition of what’s considered a data sale. In short, a sale under CCPA is about more than just the transfer of a California […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. On The Plus Side Walmart resisted starting a membership program because it goes against its lowest-cost-for-all ethos. But that stance comes to an end this month with the planned launch of Walmart Plus, a $98 per year loyalty program, Vox reports. Walmart Plus was […]

When advertisers think of the cutting edge of OTT advertising, they’re probably not thinking of Amazon as much as they are Roku, Hulu or YouTube. Despite having great video products, Amazon has not ballyhooed itself as a source for great video inventory. There’s not lot of inventory on Prime, for instance, and Twitch functions as […]

Amazon’s media businesses are worth far more than investors think – approximately $500 billion, or 38% of the company’s market cap, according to investment bank Needham & Company. This week on AdExchanger Talks, Needham Managing Director Laura Martin talks about why. In a June 16 research note, Needham estimates that the lion’s share of Amazon’s […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ahead Of The Game Facebook was the designated beneficiary earlier this week when Microsoft gave up on the video game streaming platform Mixer, diverting its traffic and accounts to Facebook Gaming. But the big winner here could be Twitch. Mixer lured popular streamers with […]

    Even Google can’t avoid the vicious impact of COVID-19 on the ad industry. The ad giant’s net US digital ad revenue will decline by 5.3% this year to $39.6 billion, according to eMarketer, even as it projects the digital ad market as a whole to grow 1.7% to $134.7 billion. As a result, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. TikTok Goes Boom TikTok made between $200 million and $300 million in advertising worldwide last year, and this year it’s aiming to generate $500 million in the United States alone, The Information reports. Optimistic forecasts and sales goals are far from reliable predictors of […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Setting Up Shop Shopify landed a partnership with Walmart so that merchants that use the ecommerce software can sell on Walmart’s online marketplace. It’s a logical tie-up: Walmart wants to rapidly scale the brands and SKUs in its marketplace and Shopify can offer small […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Global Effort The World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) is partnering with the United Nations (UN) to establish measures that will help brands tackle diversity issues. The UN is urging brands to measure and publicize information about their progress and ability to sustain diversity […]

The direct-to-consumer brand revolution has been going strong for a decade, but the coronavirus pandemic has created new opportunities for B2B and wholesale manufacturers to flood the consumer market. Rastelli’s, a New Jersey-based food supplier, fortuitously started a consumer branding business last year, said director of marketing Zachary Paul. Instead of selling products through grocers […]

AdExchanger’s Social Distancing With Friends podcast now has its own channel. Subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you listen to podcasts. About two weeks ago, when this podcast was recorded with Jim Squires, VP of business and media at Instagram, Facebook’s acquisition of GIPHY and the rollout of Facebook Shops were two […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Do The Math MediaMath is pursuing strategic options, including a potential sale, Digiday reports. MediaMath has more than $500 million in debt and investments to recoup, so it’s a tough sell. Retailers such as Walmart and Target might have the balance sheets, but not […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Going Dark If you noticed your Instagram feed flooded with black squares, it was because of Blackout Tuesday, a collective protest against racism and police brutality. Started by the music industry, major retailers and brands such as Nordstrom and Madewell soon got involved, reports […]