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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Switching Gears Peloton stock has plummeted more than 90% in two years. Steep job cuts and revenue declines have customers worried whether their high-end bikes and memberships might become worthless. Which makes Peloton a prime candidate to launch an ad revenue business!  It’s […]

Agencies get paid to spend time creating and planning things. So what happens when generative AI tech creates and plans things for them?

Notice and choice just got dragged at a House subcommittee hearing on privacy. Rep. Frank Pallone called it “coercive.”

DoubleVerify reaped the benefits of a cautious Q4 for ad spending – and it will continue to benefit as measuring performance remains a priority for advertisers. The measurement company reported a 27% growth rate in Q4.

The German skin care company Beiersdorf, whose brands include Nivea and Eucerin, is using AI to test different elements of a brand’s creative assets to improve media performance.

It’s not hard to understand why Meta is prioritizing ecommerce advertising with Advantage+ Shopping campaigns, Shops and Checkout on Facebook and Instagram. Meta must reignite its overall advertising business.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tough Math MediaMath came to the end of its decade-long venture capital tether last year when it sold a stake to PE firm Searchlight Capital, wiping out the equity of its founders, early investors and employees. It’s a bitter outcome, reports Insider in […]

Publishers, such as The Arena Group, are now partnering directly with brand safety solution providers to lower their block rates for direct-sold inventory.

American City Business Journals earns about 90% of its revenue from direct sales. So it is looking to invest in technology that can streamline its direct business as much as possible.

In its Q4 earnings report Tuesday, PubMatic highlighted how SSP consolidation is an opportunity for the company to pursue its goal of capturing a fifth of the SSP market.

Virginia is for lovers – and privacy lawyers. Although California has attracted most of the attention as the first US state to pass and enact comprehensive data privacy legislation, other states, including Virginia, have been swiftly following suit with regulations of their own.

Vizio reported flat revenue growth for Q4. And it’s banking on its ads business – and the viewing data behind it – to help turn things around.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Let’s Get Real Last year, BeReal was flying high on organic growth. Apple named it “App of the Year,” a coveted title, because the prize is sweet, sweet App Store homepage visibility.  But can BeReal keep the magic alive long enough to, uhhh […]

Generative AI is the talk of the town. At creative and media agencies, everyone from designers to copywriters to marketing leaders are giving generative AI programs like ChatGPT and DALL-E a try.

“This year is going to be a big one for the ad tech industry from a privacy perspective,” says Joe Jones, director of research and insights at the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

For app marketers, success comes down to answering one question: Which users are most likely to churn?

Just as it has democratized more data-driven approaches to so much other business decision-making, machine learning is fundamentally changing churn prediction from an inexact art into a precise science.

Television advertising has the reputation of mainly being a vehicle for branding. But that’s a misconception, says Arjun Kapur, managing partner and founder of Comcast’s Forecast Labs.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trade Desk Trade-Offs The investment bank Needham has both the bullish and bearish takes on The Trade Desk after the DSP reported earnings this month. And there is a compelling case in both directions.

Typeface, an enterprise-focused generative AI company, launched on Monday. Generative AI is a buzzy topic right now. But large B2B and B2C companies are struggling to figure out how to adopt the technology in their day-to-day business and workflows, said Abhay Parasnis, CEO and founder of Typeface and Adobe’s former chief technology and product officer.

The data clean room category can be split into walled garden giants – Google, Amazon and Meta – and independent operators, such as Habu, InfoSum and Optable. But that simple distinction misses an important player in the clean room market: Snowflake.

Companies are relying on AI to help them treat their current and prospective employees more like their customers. Despite layoffs in some sectors, there is still a labor shortage, and employers continue to feel the aftershocks of the pandemic and the Great Resignation.

We’re living in a new reality, and the ad industry has to accept some home truths about itself if it wants to evolve.

If we are to build a more virtuous circle of data usage, consumers must be at the center. How do we get there? The industry must break its addiction to deterministic data, writes Audigent CEO Drew Stein.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Ad-Supported Bird Gets The Worm Free-to-play reigns supreme in the mobile game market. Angry Birds, a mobile gaming OG that found early success using paid downloads, is now putting all its eggs into the ad-supported basket, Ars Technica reports. Rovio had already […]

Innovid confirmed plans to lay off 10% of its global staff this year. But considering the external pressures, the numbers it reported for Q4 could’ve been worse.

Warner Bros. and Discovery insist their marriage is working. Although they’ve had to go through a little, shall we say, counseling.

Section 230 protects tech platforms, but the Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to the statute. Plus, the latest in the courtroom battle between Kochava and the FTC.

The TV term du jour is supply-path optimization. And SSPs in particular are under intense pressure to carve out competitive edges.

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