Data Privacy

Zitron argues that the internet is being ruined by the Big Tech players that control it and that advertising needs to lose its sense of entitlement over everyone’s data.

“Esto perpetua” – let it be perpetual, in Latin – is the state motto of Idaho, but it doesn’t apply to the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit against Kochava.

Freddie Liversidge, HP’s global head of media, explains the benefits and challenges of building an in-house digital media agency from the ground up.

When you combine ad tech integrations, in all their messy complexity, with data privacy laws like GDPR, the stakes for mistakes are high. Last week, our managing editor, Allison Schiff, broke one such story. PubMatic had set the default timer to get consent in its own identity management solution so low – between 1 millisecond […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Stores Of Value From regional chains to the largest department and grocery stores, seemingly every retailer is in the retail media network business.  Retail ad spend forecasts have leapt to $25 billion and more. Except those numbers mostly track Amazon’s growth, plus a […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Browser Bowsers A decades-long truce among browser operators – Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome – is dissolving as Google and Microsoft militarize their platform borderlands. Last year, Google introduced a one-click button for Windows devices that set Chrome as the […]

AppLovin has added CTV supply from streaming video distribution platform Wurl, which it acquired last March, to its mobile user acquisition platform, AppDiscovery. AppLovin’s marketer clients can now buy CTV inventory on a cost-per-install basis.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The All-In Risk The natural state for digital media monetization isn’t 100% advertising or all subscriptions, but some balance of both. The Athletic couldn’t get by on subscriptions alone, and BuzzFeed News died on the ad-only vine. But media companies are now creating […]

Trebel Music has released a ChatGPT-powered product called Trebel AI, which instantly generates personalized playlists in response to natural language queries. Advertisers on Trebel AI can target users in the moment based on their intent.

Raashee Gupta Erry spent most of her career in the digital marketing industry at agencies and brands, including Essence and Volkswagen US. Then she took a job explaining ad tech to the Federal Trade Commission. “There’s a wind of change happening,” Gupta Erry says.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Layser Focused Stephanie Layser, former News Corp VP of ad tech, data and identity products, joined Amazon Web Services a year ago as global head of publisher ad tech solutions. And she just recorded a podcast with Marketecture about what she’s been up […]

Apple’s ATT spurred Meta to shore up its ad platform and make it less vulnerable to future changes on other platforms – but that doesn’t change the fact that regulators remain ready and raring to crack down.

Pundits predicted Microsoft would use Xandr to create an ad-supported video game content fortress, with the ad tech business getting exclusive access to Microsoft’s gaming IP. Any ambitions in that direction may now be on hold.

Ad tech companies manage billions of advertising bids across thousands of publishers in a matter of milliseconds. So, when a privacy error slips through cracks, it can metastasize into a potential GDPR concern in the blink of an eye.

While a number of companies have already made a name for themselves in the data clean room category, it has become clear that no single solution, or even a single data clean room model, will emerge as the industry standard.

A recent op-ed in the New York Times implicated the ad industry in many dismal practices, including election-rigging, news-defunding and even inflation. To make a case for the defense, start with these four myths.

One-third of Publicis Group’s revenue comes from its data and tech business, which includes Epsilon and Publicis Sapient. Maintaining a differentiated revenue mix is one reason why Publicis is growing faster than the global economy, particularly since the pandemic, chairman and CEO Arthur Sadoun told investors on Thursday.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Europe? More Like ‘You’re Out’ In 2018, a handful of American ad tech startups abandoned the EU when their services became (more likely than not) verboten. Drawbridge, for instance, left Europe when it became clear that regulators had cross-device graphs in their crosshairs. […]

How well does Google’s replacement tech for third-party cookies work? So, so (so far), at least based on the results of a recent Google Ads experiment designed to isolate the contribution of the Topics API, first-party publisher IDs and contextual data.

Although it’s not legally required, many websites in the US have started using cookie banners in a misguided attempt to protect themselves from lawyers who smell blood in the water.

Health care marketers are often in the business of reminding consumers of their diagnoses and getting them to change their behaviors for their own good. Andy Semons explains how IPNY works with neuroscientists to design persuasive, relatable and empathetic health care communication materials for different communities.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tightening The Net Netflix’s 15- or 30-second ads between TV-quality content is what CTV advertisers want from streaming media.  Peter Naylor, Netflix’s first-ever ad sales leader, touted differentiators in its pitch to ad buyers.  For one, some broadcasters mix streaming and linear, Naylor […]

Ad tech vendors who scrape content to build contextual segments are irking publishers. And the latest tweak in Safari will cut down on vendors that camouflage themselves in first-party cookie tech.

Before DOOH can court bigger ad budgets, it must adapt the automated tools marketers use for measuring and buying against performance to a media channel that straddles the online and offline worlds.

Whenever the butterflies at Apple WebKit flap their wings, “Ad Tech Island” feels the aftershocks. Last week, a small change to Apple’s on-device tech to patrol third-party data collectors sent some mobile and online advertising practitioners into a tizzy over the loss of another sliver of data transparency. They also fret because Apple continues to […]

Regulators have made it clear that they have their eye on how data flows between first parties and their partners – and that first parties are responsible for what happens when the data they collect is shared with others.

What are data privacy lawyers (and regulators) thinking most about these days? Allison Schiff reports from Washington, DC. Plus: the effects of ATT nearly two years later.

Putting data in the possession of a presumably trusted third party makes a world of sense. But while clean rooms are very useful for some things, it is questionable whether they are the panacea for all privacy-compliance challenges.

Most consumers think the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a lot broader than it is. But in a post-Dobbs world, it bears repeating: HIPAA doesn’t cover all health data, including reproductive health information collected through phones, tablets and other devices.

Health data and race are sensitive topics on their own. Put them together, and it’s easy to see why people struggle to thoughtfully tailor their marketing efforts to different audiences. Still, many health care marketers are opting in to race-based targeting to stay relevant and reach underserved populations.