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A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ghosts In The Machine The rise of machine-learning-powered ad products from Google and Meta is changing the performance marketer’s job from a hybrid creative tactician, media hound and command pilot to, well, someone who just feeds data, text prompts and raw creative assets […]

When the MRC revoked its seal of approval for Nielsen’s TV ratings in 2021, it spurred a hunt for alternatives. Now, media and tech companies are debating whether MRC accreditation is even necessary.

Snowflake, The Trade Desk and Narrative are going to market with a new cloud-based data marketplace approach.

Now that we’re nearly four weeks into what’s slated to be a 10-week trial, it’s worth digging into the question: What happens if Google loses?

Programmatic retail media is stuck in a holding pattern until there are OpenRTB standards – the protocols for automated online advertising – that address sponsored listings.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Demand More Google has started its global rollout of Demand Gen, a machine-learning ad product launched in beta over the summer. Demand Gen is akin to Performance Max, Google’s most prominent machine learning-based ad product … which is a euphemistic way to say […]

Digital media and marketing M&A is suffering from a prolonged case of anemia. The cause? Uncertainty in the market, according to LUMA Partners.

Most performance marketers’ experience with connected TV starts with sticker shock and ends with broken promises.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. When CTV burst onto the scene as the holy grail of reach and targeting, eyes popped at the rates quoted by the big CTV players. Marketers held out hope that the promise of hyper-targeting would make the high costs worth it.

Market pressures are forcing retailers and online marketplaces to bolster their profitability with added services.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Out Of Home, Out Of Mind?  Data-driven out-of-home media hasn’t taken off, in part, because most buyers don’t see it as a channel for generating mass reach and conversions. But the fact that people don’t feel bombarded by ads in the world around them […]

Innovid added a new machine learning feature to its measurement product that automatically optimizes CTV campaigns based on how they’re performing.

Despite good intentions, the ad industry still has a misconception that Black-owned media can’t scale, says Justin Barton, SVP of digital strategy and partnerships at Black Enterprise.

As former product managers themselves who spent years in the technical trenches of ad tech, Sincera co-founders Ian Meyers and Mike O’Sullivan know what it’s like to try and build things in a messy industry full of jury-rigged technology.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Clean Bill Of Health? Everyone knows the infamous anecdote of a young woman’s early pregnancy being spotted and outed by a Target circular back in the early days of advertising-oriented predictive analytics. But big retailers still casually profile customers using a mix of […]

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.

Although precisely measuring Hispanic audiences is in the best interest of marketers, there are many ways that measurement can get messy, from the data sources used to quantify who is Hispanic to the shortcomings of measurement technology itself.

CTV is poised to become the third “big scale” performance advertising channel, but is effective CTV attribution actually possible?

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Search For A Replacement The Google antitrust trial allows for a great deal of cynical theater. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testifies with, of course, exactly what Microsoft wants from the trial. Sridhar Ramaswamy, former Google search product chief who started an ads-free search engine, […]

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

MAGNA and Roku released a joint study to give buyers some advice about how to approach frequency capping in streaming – including when to dial it down and when to turn it up.

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.

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pushing Forty TikTok is pushing hard for adoption of its on-platform shopping product, particularly in North America.  Last month, it introduced a major Shopify backend integration, which lets brands plug influencers as affiliates and includes a payment system so users can buy without […]

The number of online 5G devices doubled between 2021 and 2022, reaching nearly 162 million active 5G devices in the US alone, according to CTIA data. And based on data from Omdia and 5G Americas, 5G wireless connections will reach 5.9 billion devices globally by the end of 2027.

To get more revenue out of Prebid, LADbible is testing a new automated optimization feature for Magnite’s Demand Manager.

DTC brand operators and other ecommerce marketers are attracted to expertise coming from someone who can show how they made it work for themselves “with skin in the game,” says Barry Hott, a marketing consultant and new head of growth for the DTC candy brand Rotten.

Like their cookie cousins, IP addresses face an uncertain future. Yet the industry seems stumped for an alternative to its chosen CTV default.

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 […]