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Swapping out ads on linear TV to target audiences just got a bit more real. Project OAR (“Open, Addressable, Ready”), a consortium backed by smart TV maker Vizio, said Monday at CES it has finalized open specifications for dynamic ad insertion on linear TV and integrated with major ad decisioning engines including FreeWheel, Google Ad […]

Video ad tech company Tremor said Monday it will acquire the outstream video advertising platform Unruly from News Corp. In exchange, News Corp gets a 6.9% equity stake in Tremor, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange, giving News Corp about $20 million worth of Tremor stock, based on the video advertising company’s $275 […]

AMC Networks – like the TV industry as a whole – is stepping up its efforts to make TV more data-driven. And a large part of that initiative means making its data across all AMC brands – including IFC, BBC America, SundanceTV and We TV – available to advertisers. In late December, it brought on […]

NBCUniversal wants its content to appear wherever viewers want it: places like YouTube, Roku, NBC apps, Snapchat, mobile phones and work computers, in addition to linear streams in their living room. But scheduling ads that will light up across all of these platforms is a highly fragmented, manual process. So NBCUniversal hired former Kargo President […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Supply Constrained Advertisers are shifting their TV budgets to streaming platforms so quickly that demand for OTT inventory will far outstrip supply this year, Digiday reports. Currently, just a handful of streaming players sell ad inventory, though more will open up when NBC’s Peacock […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. It’s Vox’s Forte Are you an advertiser in need of publisher first-party data? Then Vox has a holiday gift for you! The company, which made a big-scale play in 2019 when it merged with New York Media, has launched an advertising platform called Forte […]

The advertising industry today is largely the product of tremendous M&A activity. AdExchanger looked at the acquisitions that made the biggest impact in the past decade. Impact can mean many things. Some of these startups flourished under their new owners, showing worth far more than their deal price. Others, purchased during their downfall, reflect the […]

The 2010s was a decade of tectonic shifts for the TV industry. Linear TV networks can no longer avoid the digital revolution. As eyeballs shift to streaming platforms and buyers demand more automation and better measurement, new players, like Hulu and Roku, have risen as prime media sellers, while broadcasters evolve their businesses to capture […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. This Is Fine France’s competition regulator fined Google $167 million (150 million euros) for unfairly suspending advertisers for placing allegedly deceptive ads. It’s a drop in the bucket for Google, but the regulatory drumbeat is a bigger issue than the fines. Unlike previous fines, […]

Ten years ago, national TV was a steal. Today, marketers are getting priced out by skyrocketing ad rates, even as audiences decline. Despite ratings falling by double-digits across geos and dayparts, TV networks have maintained flat revenues by raising the cost of their inventory, said James Fennessy, CEO at Standard Media Index (SMI), a data […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Peacock Takes Cue From Hulu NBCU’s forthcoming Peacock streaming service will launch with an ad-free tier at a price point of $10 per month, as well as a $5 per month limited advertising tier, according to sources at The Information. When it announced Peacock, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Culture Clash TikTok may be the hottest new social media app of 2019, but it’s not winning any “client of the year” awards. Agencies that have worked with TikTok as a client complain of unrealistic briefs and timelines, high turnover and abrupt project cancellations […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Long Live The CMO Two years after Coca-Cola retired its CMO role, kicking off what would turn into a trend among big brands, the job title is back. The company has promoted 24-year veteran Manolo Arroyo to CMO, Ad Age reports. But it’s not […]

Amazon Publisher Services (APS) will remove dataxu from its Fire TV third-party DSP service, according to sources with knowledge of the change. APS opened its Fire TV inventory to third-party DSPs for the first time five months ago with integrations with The Trade Desk and dataxu. Less than two months after dataxu was acquired by […]

Nielsen released a measurement solution on Friday that combines the demographic data from its TV audience panel, the People Meter, with Gracenote’s ACR data based on four million US households with LG smart TVs. The data service, which opens to all buyers and broadcasters beginning in January, will mark the first time Nielsen has merged […]

The advertising industry has a problem: People don’t want to be interrupted by commercials anymore. Hulu is trying to fix that by offering new ad units that are less disruptive. On Thursday, the streaming service released an advertising experience designed to lighten ad loads for people watching multiple episodes of a show in a row. […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Safari’s Google Assist Apple cranked up its Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) controls yet again, this time in ways that make it harder to classify users based on web content and site data. Read the WebKit blog post about the updates. All cross-site tracking requests […]

Dish runs a scaled addressable advertising business. But its process to decide whether to run a linear or addressable ad was highly manual. Staff used spreadsheets and spent two to three weeks just to schedule a single week of advertising. And managing yield – like figuring out whether an addressable or demo-based linear ad should […]

This article is sponsored by SpotX. To learn more about the future of TV and cross-screen video, read “SpotX’s Guide to 2020 Trends in Video Advertising.”  Spurred by a new wave of OTT content and subscription services, 2019 might be remembered as the year OTT and connected TV (CTV) finally achieved widespread consumer adoption. According […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Wages Of ITP Apple’s long-running effort to stamp out targeted ads on its services has been remarkably effective. Apple’s privacy crusade kicked off in September 2017 with the introduction of Intelligent Tracking Prevention for Safari. Now, two years later, the value of a Safari […]

Coke, Chevrolet, Casio, Burger King, Reebok, Adidas, Old Navy. Netflix content including “Stranger Things,” “GLOW,” “El Camino” and the animated Christmas film “Klaus” are increasingly fertile ground for in-show product placements and brand tie-ins. Originals serve as the inspiration for new consumer products. But most of those deals are struck directly between Netflix and the […]

Millennials are all about streaming on the sofa, but that doesn’t mean they don’t still go to the movies. The addressable audience in movie theaters is massive, said Jerry Canning, VP of digital ad sales at National CineMedia (NCM), a cinema advertising network that curates pre-show featurettes, movie news and trivia across more than 21,000 […]

It’s been a year of breakneck user growth for Pluto TV. Monthly active users hit 20 million in November, a 70% increase since January, when Viacom acquired the free ad-supported streaming service for $340 million. That’s nearly 8 million new users in less than a year. So, how did Pluto do it? Its growth is […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Playing Chicken With TV The success of Popeyes’ recent chicken sandwich launch, which started with a runaway viral Twitter thread, manifested itself in the form of a 10.2% sales boost in its restaurants. The company let that social media wave ride out organically, pulling […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Programmatic Billions Programmatic advertising in the United States will account for about 84% of digital display in 2019, according to eMarketer. (EMarketer’s definition of digital display includes native ads, social network ads and advertising that shows up on pretty much any internet-connected device). “Over […]

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. All In Context  Integral Ad Science acquired European contextual targeting company ADmantX for an undisclosed amount. Using natural language processing and machine learning, ADmantX identifies the context of an article and whether a piece of content is positive or negative, The Wall Street Journal […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. China Who? TikTok wants to distance itself from its Chinese ownership as it faces scrutiny from US lawmakers and regulators. Its senior-most executive, Alex Zhu, gave an interview to The New York Times, dismissing concerns that the social app could help China spy on […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. MPlatform No More GroupM is disbanding mPlatform, the unit it launched in 2016 to centralize client access to data and technology across its agencies. Newly minted CEO Christian Juhl wants to create more consistency across the group’s four media agencies, and the mPlatform brand […]

People who live in cities like Boston or Chicago will probably see fewer campaign ads for the 2020 election compared to 2016. They can thank the rise of data-driven advertising for that small respite, as campaign ads shift from broad TV markets to targeted OTT and streaming video. Presidential candidates have historically inundated Boston and […]