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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 […]

Mediaocean, the de facto software for most US TV advertising, has agreed to acquire the ad tech and analytics startup 4C on Monday for $150 million. 4C raised $31 million in two rounds, most recently in 2016 at a valuation of between $50 million and $100 million. Mediaocean CEO Bill Wise told AdExchanger the two […]

  Nielsen is caught in the middle of a dispute between TV buyers and sellers about whether to include out-of-home (OOH) viewing as part of its linear TV ratings stream this year. The measurement company initially planned to integrate viewing that takes place at bars, restaurants and other public establishments as part of its national […]

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 […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column by Steven Golus, founder at Steven Golus Consulting, is the second in a series that will present the fundamentals of how TV advertising works and how it is changing. In our previous article, we discussed pre-upfront presentation […]

Amobee is making its suite of tools for TV and connected TV planning, targeting and measurement available on a self-serve basis starting Wednesday. The solution, called TV Amplifier, was first released as a managed service last year. Automation is needed in an increasingly fragmented media landscape, particularly with streaming consumption rising during the pandemic, said […]

Ad tech vet Mark Zagorski will be the new CEO of ad verification company DoubleVerify starting July 21, the company said Thursday. Zagorski and DoubleVerify declined to comment. The CEO position at DoubleVerify opened up in early March, when its previous leader Wayne Gattinella resigned after The New York Post published a salacious article about […]

  Ad supported video on demand (AVOD) is growing, with more content – for instance, NBCUniversal’s Peacock launches this summer – as well as more viewers. Forty-five percent of people who regularly watch online video tune into ad-supported services, according to the IAB. Still, AVOD isn’t ubiquitous yet, so who can advertisers actually reach today? […]

Measurement is a major selling point for local TV advertisers as the economy starts to (sort of) reopen. Scale, however, has historically been a problem, and there hasn’t been enough data for broadcasters such as TEGNA to properly track user journeys to completion. On Wednesday, Alphonso, TEGNA’s long-time attribution and TV data partner, added TV […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Allen Klosowski, senior vice president of advanced solutions at SpotX. The rise of cord cutting, new streaming services and advanced digital delivery have changed the face of TV advertising’s future. While traditional TV represents most […]

Gaming And Esports Make Their Pitch For Brand Bucks The gaming stats that get slung around are always eye-popping. And those cited Friday during the final day of this year’s NewFronts – a content block dedicated to esports and gaming – were no exception. In April, for example, time spent with games soared 75% year over year. […]

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 […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Check Is In The Email Online events are a fraction as valuable as real-world equivalents, but publishers are hosting them more and more as a way to build up authenticated email databases. “That is now the starting point of conversations with publishers,” Tessa […]

For years, advertisers and publishers waited for a transition to video that always glinted right around the corner. Promises of Facebook video revenue didn’t materialize. And ad-supported OTT viewership lagged. But in the past year or so, the switch has finally flipped for video, said Spencer Weinman, CRO of the content production agency and video […]

When Disney ad sales chief Rita Ferro approached Lisa Valentino about leading the entertainment giant’s client and brands solutions team, which had more than 500 people, Lisa knew it would be a big and different role, despite her background running sales organizations. As EVP of client & brand solutions, Lisa transitioned the organization through the […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Aprés-Zagorski Mark Zagorski is leaving Rubicon Project at the end of June, the company announced on Thursday. It’s hardly surprising. Zagorski was CEO of Telaria before its absorption by Rubicon, and he has been COO and president since then. “Thanks to Mark’s leadership, we […]

At long last, Google released its sellers.json file. And the world was 5% grateful, in line with the level of completeness of Google’s file. This week on The Big Story, the AdExchanger team welcomes Jounce Media founder Chris Kane to talk about what’s missing in Google’s seller.json file. And senior editor Sarah Sluis, who spoke […]

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. In March, NBCUniversal had “fortunately and unfortunately” just finished a recession-based ad sales deck, to pitch advertisers on strategies that worked during previous downturns, in case the economy did turn south this year, said Mark […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Mike O’Donnell, senior vice president, platform business, at Vizio. So, here we are in June. Upfront presentations would have just ended, under the usual circumstances. But business is far from usual right now. Advertisers plan […]

The House of the Mouse has one ad tech team now. Disney has merged all of its ad tech talent and products, including what came along with the Hulu acquisition, into a single, centralized team led by Jeremy Helfand, previously Hulu’s VP and head of advertising platforms. Tuesday was Helfand’s first day at the helm […]

As buyers return to the ad marketplace, they’re concentrating their spend in digital advertising, especially connected TV (CTV), according to an IAB survey of 148 buyers conducted in early June. Overall, 59% of respondents said they planned to increase their CTV/OTT budgets in the second half of 2020 compared to the previous year, the highest […]

Popular YouTube channels for kids are migrating to the TV set through The Roku Channel and other ad-supported apps. Launched in 2017, The Roku Channel aggregates free content distributed on Roku’s platform along with live TV networks, premium video subscriptions and content packages geared toward different genres and age groups. When The Roku Channel launched […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Adobe’s Ad Cloud Drags Adobe is “significantly” accelerating its plan to eliminate its low-margin Advertising Cloud transaction-driven business and focus on the software side of the business. “The transaction business is very resource-intensive,” CEO Shantanu Narayen said Thursday when explaining the move during Adobe’s […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column by Steven Golus, founder at Steven Golus Consulting, is the first in a series that will present the fundamentals of how TV advertising works and how it is changing. I spend a lot of time educating linear TV […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. To Facebook, Or Not To Facebook? Facebook has lost some advertisers since CEO Mark Zuckerberg refused to remove posts by President Trump that glorify violence. Agencies including Pearmill and Verasoni Worldwide are advising clients to suspend campaigns while protests continue, The New York Times […]

The On Addressability initiative, a joint venture between Comcast, Charter and Cox, has added AMC Networks as its first independent broadcast partner, the companies announced on Wednesday. Comcast launched the On Addressability initiative at the Cannes Lions festival in June 2019 to transition more TV commercials to addressable ad sales. The joint venture allows brands […]

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 […]

Roku is entering this year’s upfront with growing competition. With NBCUniversal’s Peacock, ViacomCBS’ Pluto TV and Fox’s Tubi available in market, as well as an ad-supported tier of WarnerMedia’s HBO Max launching next year, the OTT landscape has grown crowded. So Roku is beefing up its offering amid the pandemic by launching new products for […]

Television upfronts normally showcase sizzle reels of upcoming shows to guide buyers’ investments. But with programming in flux due to the coronavirus pandemic, Disney’s virtual upfronts turned the sizzle to its initiatives around linear addressability, attribution, programmatic and digital platform unification. “We had more time to talk about our investment in data and technology,” said […]