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According to the ANA, brands could save at least $20 billion a year by cutting out low-quality programmatic inventory on the open web.

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem… Happy Juneteenth! This classic AdExchanger comic was originally published on July 22, 2022.

ID5 is integrating its ID graph into The Trade Desk’s Identity Alliance. And European publishers partnered with ID5 can apply EUID for logged-in traffic.

There isn’t going to be one single resolution to the measurement debate. The TV market will most likely end up with a hybrid model that includes everything from ACR and big data via smart TVs to, yes, much-maligned Nielsen-style panels.

Connected TV measurement is so messy that I was invited to perform a stand-up comedy set about it at the Cynopsis Measurement and Data conference in New York City.

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.

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

AdExchanger’s daily news roundup will return on Tuesday, June 20, in observance of the Juneteenth holiday. As Seen On CTV Can agencies help fix retail media’s fragmentation problem? Publicis Groupe launched a retail media platform on Thursday to help clients plan and measure across large networks, Ad Age reports. The platform is built on Profitero, […]

Roku announced two new ad formats to help brands get in front of both ad-free viewers in addition to people streaming with ads. The new formats are interactive, and will be shoppable where applicable later this year.

If you scan the ad tech headlines, you’d assume artificial intelligence (AI) offers the solution to every challenge facing today’s brands and agencies. Even if marketers understand how the hype machine works, many are still willing to buy into the smoke and mirrors, especially when it comes to the power of AI to cure what ails them (e.g., the deprecation of third-party cookies and the loss of other previously relied-upon industry identifiers).

Martech holding company The Brandtech Group acquired Pencil, a generative AI platform for ads, on Thursday.

Criteo wants to be an advertiser’s one-stop shop for, well, shopping. On Tuesday, Criteo released a supply-side platform out of beta called Commerce Grid specifically for buyers and sellers of commerce media.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Split Decision The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, charged Google’s digital ad business with antitrust violations on Wednesday, CNBC reports. After a nearly two-year investigation, the commission found that Google’s end-to-end ad platform violates EU antitrust law. It pointed […]

Google made six AI-related announcements in one day, including the ability to use images in Bard prompts, additions to its Search Generative Experience, a virtual clothing try-on feature and two new AI-powered video campaigns for YouTube.

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.

Data intelligence platform Tracer selected Obele Brown-West to be its first president on Wednesday on the brink of closing its Series A round of funding.

AI went from quirky novelty to dominant disruptor in a matter of months, taking over the headlines, as consumer-friendly and business-centric AI applications continue emerging in every sector. AI’s role in digital advertising is much more established, but rapid advances increasingly deliver unexpected and transformative capabilities for digital marketers.

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.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Signal, Please TV may not rely on third-party cookies, but that doesn’t mean the television industry isn’t feeling the impact of signal loss. The phaseout of third-party cookies is having a “trickle-down effect” on the TV world, says Lauren Fisher of Advertiser Perceptions, […]

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 […]