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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. WarningMedia After a second spate of layoffs at WarnerMedia on Tuesday, which hit between 5% to 7% of its 25,000 employees, CEO Jason Kilar addressed the company’s future during a town hall meeting. As per Business Insider, Kilar said that the “painful” cuts were […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. It’s All About Trust The political and cultural divide in the United States was starkly visible during the 2020 election – especially as the results rolled in last week. President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to be a “healer in chief.” But as Campaign US […]

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 […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Brian Ejsmont, VP of product management at VideoAmp. Recently, there’s been a lot of industry chatter from companies claiming they can reduce the latency of cross-channel reporting across attribution use cases, AKA “fast-twitch” reporting, enabling […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Disney Minus The Walt Disney Co. faces a moment of truth next week with the first anniversary of its launch of Disney Plus, The Information reports. This is when Verizon customers who signed up for the service through a one-year free promotion have to […]

Video streaming giant Roku’s revenue soared 73% YOY to $452 million in Q3. Roku’s Platform business – which includes advertising and content distribution revenue – saw its strongest quarter in the segment’s history, with revenue leaping 78% YOY to $319 million. Roku attributed the record Platform numbers to strong growth in advertising as brands embraced […]

Holy stock market obliteration, Batman! The Trade Desk continued its meteoric trajectory, when it reported Q3 revenue of $216 million on Thursday, a 32% YoY increase, and a 45% leap from the previous quarter. Its stock price Friday morning was more than 25% and still on an upward trajectory, and it has a market cap […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Election Forecasting The absolute biggest question on everyone’s mind during the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election: How will media change? OK, maybe not the biggest. Regardless of who wins, expect regulatory consequences, Lucinda Southern writes as part of an Adweek staff roundup predicting […]

Oh God, will this election never end? This week on The Big Story, we get into That, and how the results whatever they might be at the time of writing, might potentially impact paid media. Will a Biden win make politics boring again, causing news publications to lose audience? Of course, a peaceful transfer of […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jessica Hogue, GM of measurement and analytics at Innovid. We’re entering the 2.0 era of CTV. Many brands are gaining confidence that CTV provides extended reach to their linear TV campaign due to the […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trump Gets A Pass The Trump administration is reportedly getting the friends and family deal over at Facebook when it comes to the platform’s misinformation rules – which don’t seem to apply to prominent Trump associates and conservative groups, according to The Washington Post. The […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Benjamin Goldman, CRO and co-founder at 180byTwo. When the pandemic forced many to work remotely and face-to-face events had to go virtual or were canceled altogether, account-based marketers struggled to adapt. As workers left […]

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. 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, […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Today’s column is written by Max Knight, VP of analytics services at Amobee. Ask connected TV (CTV) advertisers what supply-path optimization (SPO) means and you’ll hear a hodgepodge of answers that include selecting exchange partners, avoiding resellers and making […]

Bringing online buying practices to OTT isn’t as simple as plugging in a buying platform and revving it up. If a display ad doesn’t load or an online video buffers on a browser, it’s annoying. If an ad on the big glass doesn’t show properly, it breaks the user experience. NBCU knows these quality control […]

“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 […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Anti Anti-Vaxxers Today in Facebook ad ban news: Facebook will bar ads that discourage users from getting vaccinated, the company said Tuesday. The move is part of a larger new flu vaccine information campaign launching on Facebook. The social media giant will still allow ads that […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What We Talk About When We Talk About Breakups We’ve all speculated about what a Google breakup might look like. A divestment of its display ads business? Shearing off YouTube? Maybe – or it could be farewell for Google’s browser. According to three anonymous sources who spoke […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Samantha Stockman, group director at The Media Kitchen. This year’s virtual Newfronts made it clear: The connected TV (CTV) industry has heard advertisers’ pleas for better, more universal measurement. Whether it’s increased direct integration with […]

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What do cats, dogs, BOPIS, contextual advertising, in-housing, open web standards, identity graphs and astrology have in common? All I can say is that we covered a lot of ground during Day Two of AdExchanger’s Programmatic.IO digital event on Wednesday. Read on for your recap. (And here’s what we got up to on Day One.) […]

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 […]

Like the little engine that could, digital and programmatic ad spend will do better than expected in the second half of the year and beyond. According to revised stats from eMarketer, United States digital display spending will grow by almost 10% this year (vs. a prediction over the summer of just 6.2% growth), while overall […]

When COVID-19 hit, the Google Ads team changed its product road map to meet evolving needs, particularly those of small businesses. And now some of those products are starting to hit the market, including a new trend discovery tool and new buying objectives. “We took a step back and asked ourselves how we could change […]

This article is sponsored by Moat by Oracle Data Cloud. When it comes to TV commercials, the difference between a successful ad and a failure can be difficult to pin down. Sometimes the timing was wrong, or the target demographic was off – and other times the message simply didn’t resonate. Whatever the reason, advertising […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Today’s column is written by John Donahue, CEO and co-founder at WLxJS. Roku and Hulu have both recently brought their new ad platforms to market – and they both have a great opportunity in front of them, with turmoil […]

Is Google finally listening to the ad tech industry? The introduction of the Dovekey spec last week – which embraced one of the key concepts laid out in Criteo’s SPARROW proposal – indicates that maybe, finally, the W3C’s Improving Web Advertising Business Group is making some headway. But, as always, we need to take these […]

TransUnion has its eye on the cookieless future with its acquisition of Tru Optik, announced on Thursday. This is the credit bureau’s third ad tech acquisition over the past year and a half. TransUnion acquired marketing tech platform TruSignal in May 2019 and cross-channel marketing company Signal in August. TransUnion declined to share the Tru […]

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, […]