Data Privacy

Scam ads featuring AI-generated celebrities are catching the FTC’s attention. Hear what the creator economy fears about generative AI. Plus: the latest on the US v. Google trial.

Healthy habits are hard to form and even harder to maintain, especially after a lifetime of neglecting the advice of doctors to eat better and exercise more.

After attending the Federal Trade Commission’s virtual roundtable about the impact of generative AI on creative fields last Wednesday, all I can wonder when I see an AI-generated creation is whose work it’s based on.

Does Google have a monopoly on search? The trial to answer that question is underway, and we go through the juiciest highlights.

Alex Cone, product manager for the Google Privacy Sandbox, addressed some of the industry’s burning questions during AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO event in New York City last week.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Nessie Lives The FTC is accusing Amazon of using Project Nessie, a secret algorithm, to fix prices in its favor and monopolize the retail market, Ars Technica reports. Amazon matched discount prices from rivals, spurring other retailers to slash their prices, too. This […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Is Free Social A ZIRP? Social media is free. Well, it’s supposed to be, anyway. That’s the point. All your friends join, it’s free fun, and rather than paying money you get served with ads.  But that could change. On Monday, Android Authority […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Apple’s Bite Apple will now let paid subscription apps (think The Economist or meditation app Calm) offer audio content exclusively for their subscribers, a trendy tactic in Podcast Land. Spotify has a similar idea, but it partners with the subscription service Patreon. And […]

Yes, Google pushed back the deadline twice. But barring action by the UK’s competition regulator, which has oversight over Google’s rollout of the Privacy Sandbox, third-party cookies in Chrome are dunzo.

We recap what we learned in data privacy, retail media and connected TV at this year’s Programmatic IO.

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The CEOs of the three largest advertising trade orgs – IAB, ANA and 4A’s – agree that we need a federal privacy law. They just don’t agree on exactly how to get there.

To tap into its first-party data, The Container Store extended its relationship with Epsilon by choosing Epsilon’s self-service digital CDP.

The industry is too focused on quantity over quality. Unfortunately, it seems there are many people still chasing scale due to a lack of understanding. 

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trade And Trade-Offs Tech regulation proponents in the US Senate traveled to Belgium last month, where they discussed their EU counterparts’ relative success “bringing Big Tech to heel,” The Information reports. Paul Tang, a Dutch parliamentary rep, said Americans test issues in protracted […]

The widening “trust gap” between consumers and the ad industry is enough to make a chief privacy officer quit. So Arielle Garcia did. She explains why.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Thanks For Not Sharing Non-advertising companies can end up with strange new incentive structures when they start collecting ad dollars. For instance, the more Netflix’s ad revenue grows, the greater the internal pressure to crack down on password sharing. Previously, Netflix could turn […]

While clean rooms do offer significant value in today’s privacy-first world of data, they are not the be-all and end-all for brands seeking controlled and reliable means of data collaboration.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Price Of Admission The discovery process for Google’s federal antitrust trial is already yielding some painful admissions when it comes to reinforcing the industry’s suspicions about Google. Jerry Dischler, VP of Google’s ads business, testified Monday that Google tweaks its search ad […]

Most programmatic ad campaigns targeted to Latinos focus narrowly on Spanish-language content. MundoNow and Infinity Partnerships announced a new audience extension initiative to connect advertisers with bilingual US Latinos.

Axel Springer announced a multiyear partnership with video monetization platform Connatix to create new contextual video ad inventory on certain sites.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Apple’s Sauce As Apple wades deeper into the advertising industry sea with its own ad network and attribution system, the company might have to navigate a tricky riptide if it upsets iPhone customers or attracts a regulator’s ire. For instance, Apple doesn’t apply […]

Arielle Garcia, UM’s former chief privacy and responsibility officer, explains why she decided to leave the large agency holding company model – a model that is rife with competing interests and conflicting loyalties, shackled to the industry status quo by “dysfunctional interdependencies.”

We asked the experts: If signed into law in its current form, what does the Delete Act mean for the ad tech industry?

What do data privacy and protection have in common with prostate health? More than you’d think. Prevention is the best cure.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Up For Sale Disney is considering selling ABC and its eight local stations. Nexstar Media Group is a possible buyer, Bloomberg reports. Disney CEO Bob Iger recently said he’s open to selling some of the company’s TV networks. Linear is a loss leader […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Search And Discovery The Department of Justice’s antitrust suit against Google began in earnest this week, with Google economist Hal Varian taking the stand and both sides presenting their opening arguments. The case could have major repercussions, just like the government’s 1990s antitrust […]

Farewell, cookies, as you fly ever so slowly to that big third party in the sky. On Thursday, Google announced that the targeting and measurement APIs in the Chrome Privacy Sandbox are generally available for the majority of Chrome users.

State privacy laws could make it a lot harder for advertisers to use IP addresses – a foundational signal for CTV ad targeting and attribution for well over a decade.

Meet the Privacy Implementation & Accountability Task Force, a new joint effort by the IAB and IAB Tech Lab to develop standards and best practices that strike the tricky balance between consumer privacy and preserving addressability.