First-party data is bolstering Slickdeals’ direct sales efforts and offsetting an industry-wide decline in programmatic CPMs. That data is also making ad targeting more effective for its native retail media inventory as demand for retail ads ramps up.
it’s hard to believe anyone in ad tech truly expects consumers to signal how they would like each corporate entity to track them across every property on the web.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Another Cookie Delay? The third-party cookie might receive another stay of execution – and this time it wouldn’t be Google pushing the deadline. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) reiterated that Google won’t be allowed to kill cookies next year unless the […]
What happens when you get a bunch of smart, technical, pissed off publishers and SSPs in one room? Here are some of the spicier things AdExchanger overheard at the inaugural Prebid Summit.
There’s a misguided desire to find a third-party cookie replacement with as little disruption as possible, and confusion reigns about data collaboration alternatives, their capabilities and the differences between them.
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.
Axel Springer announced a multiyear partnership with video monetization platform Connatix to create new contextual video ad inventory on certain sites.
Claritas acquired AI-driven marketing automation platform ArtsAI to strengthen its personalization, measurement and AI capabilities.
This summer, after looking into how advertising works on YouTube, ad tech research firm Adalytics released two reports in quick succession that struck a nerve with advertisers and media buyers. Google’s Dan Taylor weighs in on the debate.
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In the context of TV advertising, clean rooms offer privacy-compliant software that enables advertisers and publishers to match user-level data without actually sharing any personal information or raw data with one another.
Search behavior is one of the main ingredients in Resy’s personalization strategy. The Amex-owned restaurant reservation platform uses search intent to inform its content and better understand what motivates users to book tables.
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Something ostensibly “good” (consumer privacy protection) could also be an antitrust violation. Weird world. Which is why data protection authorities and their antitrust counterparts must collaborate and compare notes.
It’s happening, folks. The Chrome Privacy Sandbox is going live, third-party cookies will be phased out on Chrome by the end of next year – and don’t expect any further deadline extensions, says Victor Wong, senior director of product for all things Privacy Sandbox.
A significant number of solutions that claim to be cookieless, including unified IDs and cohort-based targeting, still rely on IDs. These solutions will find it extremely difficult to achieve the scalability required to become a true successor to cookie-based advertising.
The more time the marketplace has to evaluate the Privacy Sandbox – and, particularly, the Topics platform – the worse those platforms will look.
U.S. state privacy laws are multiplying at a dizzying rate. Here are the key points to know for the collection and processing of sensitive information for the rest of 2023.
Phrasee, a UK-based SaaS platform that uses generative AI to create, test and optimize content for large enterprise companies, has run experiments on its customers’ content for the past eight years to figure out what drives the best performance.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Off Topic The ad industry isn’t sold on the Topics API, which becomes widely available in Chrome’s update July 12. The Topics API is “slightly less creepy than storing every last behavioral detail about someone centrally,” Luke Regan, UK managing partner at performance […]
Everyone is infusing their tech with generative AI, from startups to Salesforce to Google. Understand the throughlines of these product updates. Plus, the challenge of finding publisher playmates in the Privacy Sandbox.
The dynamic creative company A Million Ads, which focuses on the audio market, launched a new personalization product Wednesday that changes creative elements like voice, sound effects and companion images based on who the customer is.
After years of courting lower-funnel performance budgets – and charging on a cost-per-click basis – Outbrain foresees further growth in attracting upper-funnel spend. It’s doing so by giving brands a way to measure their return on investment in awareness campaigns by tracking whether people are actually paying attention to their ads.
Legal drama alert: The Federal Trade Commission refiled its privacy complaint against Kochava earlier this week. The case is under a temporary seal, so details are thin on the ground (for now).
Despite their perilous position, some companies still aren’t preparing for the end of third-party cookies. But the lack of testing isn’t because they aren’t concerned.
Dotdash Meredith bet on contextual with its launch of D/Cipher, but it remains to be seen whether it can turn its revenue numbers around.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Alternative Third-party cookies are not the future of digital advertising in the EU (or anywhere for that matter). But it looks like alternative IDs may not be either. European publishers are pushing back against alternative IDs that use publisher data to build […]
Amazon accounts for more than 40% of retail media’s multibillion-dollar total addressable market. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a big opportunity to scale retailer audiences across the open internet, says Criteo CEO Megan Clarken.
In Q1 2024, Chrome will deprecate cookies for 1% of a randomly selected group of Chrome users and slowly expand deprecation to more users throughout the year.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Reeling In The Green Meta reel-y wants to monetize Reels. (Sorry, had to.) Now that the company has abandoned its metaverse plans, it’s getting back to its bread and butter: advertising. The platform is testing a new performance-based pay model for Ads on […]
Inside how Jones Road Beauty is trying to turn messy, conflicting measurement signals into a single testing roadmap for its media mix.
IAPP’s Global Summit in DC was a reminder that AI is moving fast – and judges, privacy lawyers and practitioner are racing to keep up.
An upcoming paper from CIMM doesn’t just demonstrate that differences in media quality can be measured. It also argues that tying media value to short-term outcomes has perpetuated longstanding industry challenges.
Not unlike last year, the mood during TikTok’s NewFronts presentation last week felt like cautious optimism, if not outright relief.
Can a good sales presentation offset the impact of a very bad news week? That’s a question for Meta, which collected two guilty verdicts in court this week for failing to protect children and creating additive products.
Meet Clamor, a new social listening product that pulls cultural insights from online conversations in real time. Clamor helped Manscaped freshen up its marketing, including for this year’s Super Bowl.
