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To survive and stay relevant, publishers like Ziff Davis and Black Enterprise are creating commerce-related content.

MadHive, the CTV ad buying platform, announced a $300 million investment from Goldman Sachs. Now, the company is turning its attention to measurement and attribution companies that might make lucrative acquisition targets.

New startups are starting to use generative AI to flip the script on in-video product placement, including Rembrand, a new venture launched by ad tech vet Omar Tawakol in February.

The cost of customer acquisition is about more than what a brand pays to get someone to visit a website or download an app. Advertisers also need to bake engagement and retention into their CAC, says Braze CEO Bill Magnuson.

History proved that black-box algorithms aimed to optimize business metrics will have severe, harmful consequences that are often not predicted.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Flurry Of Activity Will retail media ever flourish beyond garden walls? On Monday, Snowflake inked a partnership with Affinity Solutions, a company that sells purchase data for targeted advertising, so advertisers can access this data directly through Snowflake’s platform. Until now, Snowflake clients […]

Tatari is launching a new sister company called Vault, whose first product is a data clean room. The idea is to provide cross-channel measurement for advertisers and programmers using data other than IP addresses.

With a feared recession yet to materialize, GroupM is feeling somewhat optimistic. The holding company predicts in its midyear forecast, released on Monday, that global advertising is on track to grow 5.9% in 2023, in line with its projection from December.

Privacy Sandbox APIs will be generally available starting in July. That means publishers have roughly one year to get acclimated … and to raise any red flags to regulators.

There are certain privacy-related phrases companies use when they’re talking about their products that should make your antennae twitch. If you hear them, it’s a signal to ask questions.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Inside Track How can I track you? Let me count the … hundreds of thousands of ways. The Markup analyzed a spreadsheet linked to a public page on Microsoft-owned Xandr’s website, and it was quite the trove of audience data. The spreadsheet contains […]

Twitter ad revenue is down, brand safety is MIA, and the product is breaking. As newly appointed CEO Linda Yaccarino starts her first week on the job, can she engineer a turnaround? Plus: the launch of The Trade Desk’s Kokai and Apple’s privacy manifest.

Here’s how you succeed in ad tech: Analyze more data in more complex ways and turn that into differentiated products.

Ad tech players know it’s not that simple. Until recently, this path required obscure detours through data summarization and sprawling tech specialization.

Netflix is serious about getting rid of account sharing. But the backlash from subscribers might be more than Netflix bargained for.

By guest artist Nate Fakes A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Detective Work A pox on the ad tech tax. Google is promoting a new tool in its tech suite to help publishers and buyers track the hidden fees getting sucked up by middlemen in the bid stream. Google initially launched its tool, Confirming […]

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.

Following the broader digital ad world, the TV market is rapidly moving to the impression-based model. Managed services for impression-based (including addressable) remain alive and well, but this year’s Upfronts demonstrated the most dynamic growth centers on the programmatic marketplace.

Around nine months ago, European department store chain El Corte Inglés started using a customer data platform to do more – and better – with its first-party data.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Two Become One Viant may buy MediaMath, knitting together the pair of well-known DSPs, Digiday reports. MediaMath is an OG player that sprang up back in 2007 and was once valued at $1 billion. But it’s been on the market for a long […]

MikMak rolled out an “apples-to-apples comparison” tool across social, search, programmatic, streaming video and retail media Wednesday, dubbed MikMak Commerce for Retail Media.

The Kokai upgrade is the culmination of multiyear investments in AI-driven campaign optimization, measurement, reporting and data-sharing partnerships with publishers, CTV platforms and retail media networks.

Charter’s full linear footprint is going programmatic, the result of a partnership between Spectrum Reach, the ad sales division of Charter, and supply-side platform Beachfront.

Who needs friends when you can converse with your data clean room, chat with your ad platform and, uh, talk to your marketing cloud?

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rise (And Fall) Of The Machines CNET made waves in January when it started publishing articles that were completely generated by AI.  But the publisher is already rethinking how it’s using AI to write content after some early missteps, The Verge reports. Half […]

Microsoft’s purchase of Xandr from AT&T in late 2021 might have looked like an embrace of third-party ad tech. But while parts of the Xandr tech are considered valuable by Microsoft, the future of Xandr as an SSP integrated with thousands of outside publishers is in doubt.

In truth, it doesn’t matter when – or if – third-party cookies go away for good.

Despite the industry’s collective hand-wringing, we’re in a moment rife with possibility. The advertising industry has never been better positioned to think differently about how to delight consumers with useful and relevant advertising while continuing to prioritize their trust. Of course, this requires making use of different, sometimes new technologies and tactics and embracing an open mind.

There’s a prevailing narrative that supply-side platforms are releasing tools to cut out demand-side platforms in a desperate attempt to differentiate. But “it’s much more nuanced than that,” says Magnite CRO Sean Buckley.

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.