Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Line In The Sand An alliance of digital marketing companies filed a complaint with the UK’s competition authority on Monday calling for the regulator to block Google from implementing the technologies within the Chrome Privacy Sandbox. The sandbox houses Google’s proposals for third-party […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by James Rosewell, founder and CEO at 51Degrees. Since Google announced Privacy Sandbox, it’s used the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to shepherd the industry toward an outcome that benefits very few. […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, executive vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. Advertising plays a vital role on the web. Ads fund publishers in creating great content for all consumers to freely access. In return, […]
Nielsen is developing an identity resolution solution to help advertisers measure audiences across platforms after third-party cookies and other mainstay identifiers go ta-ta. “We’ve been working aggressively on our cross-platform journey for the last couple of years,” said Mainak Mazumdar, Nielsen’s chief data officer. “But we accelerated this when we started to see what was […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Adam Paz, VP at Viant Technology. Despite the significant marketer demand for identity-based solutions and the ad industry’s acknowledgment that we need a new form of identity resolution, few platforms are […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Betting On Ecom Sayonara, retail. Walmart is selling the Tokyo-based chain Seiyu after previously unloading its operations in the United Kingdom and Argentina. As The Wall Street Journal reports, the retail giant threw in the proverbial towel after 18 years in Japan, selling most […]
This SSP is going IPO. PubMatic is gearing up for a proposed $75 million initial public offering after filing an S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday. The company, founded in 2006, is one of the ad tech old guard and planning to list its Class A common stock on the Nasdaq Global […]
Magnite is the latest ad tech company to throw in with the Unified ID 2.0 initiative, an open source ID spearheaded by The Trade Desk. On Monday, Magnite said it will adopt the ID initiative to use encrypted and hashed email addresses as the basis for a standard identity replacement for third-party cookies. The Trade […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. The known/unknown grid made famous by former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld might as well have been about the state of internet privacy […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. This week on AdExchanger Talks, Advertiser Perceptions VP of Business Intelligence Lauren Fisher walks us through her company’s recent study on identity resolution solutions, sharing insights gleaned from more than 300 advertisers, marketers and agencies in the United […]
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 […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jordan Grossman, EVP of ad sales at GasBuddy. Remember back in the day when advertising was as simple as putting an ad up where you knew your target audience was going to be? It looks […]
This is the 13th installment in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read previous interviews with mParticle, Acquia-owned AgilOne, Amperity, Segment, ActionIQ, Lytics, Bluecore, Microsoft, Tealium, Optimove, Adobe and Treasure Data. The marketing clouds are taking up a lot of mindshare as they belatedly foray into the CDP category. But “you’d be surprised at the number […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Unified Criteo and The Trade Desk might be competitors by day, but the future of identity, privacy and the open internet calls for collaboration. The day after TTD partnered with LiveRamp on the Unified ID 2.0 initiative, Criteo said that it too will lend […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. The slow progress toward a solution to the cookie problem is partly due to “too many cooks in the kitchen,” says Hugo Loriot, a partner at You & Mr Jones-owned data agency fifty-five. “There are too many stakeholders […]
And that’s a wrap. Thanks to everyone who attended AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO digital conference this month. Over six days in October, more than 45 speakers took to the virtual stage (ahem, their sofas and kitchen tables) to drop knowledge bombs, including deep dives on the future of identity in addressable advertising. Here’s your rundown. Focus […]
This week the big stories are all Google, all the time. First, the Department of Justice uncorked its long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant. As previously speculated by multiple news outlets, the DOJ’s case homes in on Google’s search business. In this episode of The Big Story, the AdExchanger team talks about why the […]
For the past couple of months, Google has been actively testing its Privacy Sandbox proposal for interest-based cohorts, and the preliminary results are in. The proposal, dubbed FLoC – aka, “federated learning of cohorts” – calls for using on-device machine learning to group people based on their common browsing behavior as an alternative to third-party […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Malik Roberts, technical solution lead at Ad-Lib. As consumers, our data is becoming more private and less accessible. We’re becoming more difficult to track as we move around the internet, consume […]
Google is revamping Google Analytics for a world in which privacy plays center stage and identifiers are exiting stage left. The new version of Google Analytics, released on Wednesday, was in beta for more than a year, and will now be the default experience for all users. The updated product includes privacy controls to help […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Andy Monfried, founder and CEO at Lotame. Standing for something is much harder and braver than being against it. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately as it pertains to many aspects of […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Christophe Collet, CEO at S4M. When was the last time you heard A/B testing and IDFA in the same sentence? The former is traditional ad campaign testing methodology going back […]
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 […]
Julia Beizer is the chief product officer and global head of digital at Bloomberg Media. She will appear on Day One of AdExchanger’s virtual Programmatic IO conference on Oct. 5. Register to experience her session, along with more than 40 others, at Programmatic.io. As the industry debates the future of digital identity and vendors begin […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Matt Prohaska, principal and CEO at Prohaska Consulting. Matt will present “5 Things You Should Do Now To Get Ready For Our Post-Cookie World” at AdExchanger’s upcoming Programmatic IO conference on Oct. 21. Register to […]
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 […]
Another day, another avian-themed web standard proposal in the Chrome Privacy Sandbox. Meet Dovekey, which was committed to GitHub on Wednesday. But there’s something a little different about this proposed spec. It’s the first time that Google has incorporated an ad industry proposal into one of its own, and it’s encouraging to see a kernel […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Scott Tieman, head of programmatic services, and Brad Herndon, managing director of personalization and marketing analytics, both at Accenture Interactive. Despite the abundance of consumer data caused by the COVID-19 […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by John Sabella, CTO at PubMatic. As Google Chrome slowly dribbles out concepts for a cookieless future with little structure, many media buyers in the industry are getting restless to have […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Allison Schiff, senior editor at AdExchanger. It’s part of a series of perspectives from AdExchanger’s editorial team. The ad industry is facing a pair of interrelated existential threats: government regulation and […]
The “K” in “K-beauty” stands for “Korean.” But it should also stand for “kaboom” because Korean beauty product sales are exploding internationally, especially in the US market.
The cinematic trope of people stopping to watch the news on a storefront TV display feels pretty out of date today. But sometimes, life can still imitate art.
The CMS migration helped unify TIME’s fragmented content data after years of platform transitions under multiple owners. This enabled TIME to launch its own AI search product and convert archival content into AI-friendly “markdown” pages.
Last week, Adobe Advertising announced the general release of its own Custom Algorithms product, which is “a huge departure from the TubeMogul days,” Erwin Castellanos, GM of Adobe Advertising, tells AdExchanger.
This year, the percentage of ad spend going toward made-for-advertising (MFA) sites went up instead of down for the first time since 2023.
Andrew McCalip is a founding engineer at Varda Space Industries, where he oversees the manufacturing of things like hypersonic reentry vehicles and satellite buses.
