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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Privacy Barbed Wire Bloomberg reports Apple is developing a video-sharing social network akin to Snapchat. With Apple’s knowledge of your contacts and its built-in camera, it has a powerful use case. But the project has to survive a rigorous overview by a “a team inside Apple […]

Facebook just showed up to the header bidding party. Facebook confirmed it’s “exploring header bidding with a small set of publishers.” Those partners may include USA Today and Hearst, according to The Information, which was first to report the news. For Facebook, the move could mark a significant expansion of its Audience Network platform, expanding […]

The FCC may be softening its stance around its highly contested proposal to let all set-top boxes freely access cable content. Set-top box and OTT device manufacturers love the idea because they’d be able to tap into all sorts of heavily gated cable content. Multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) don’t, since it would undermine their […]

Western ad tech companies looking for an exit only have a handful of choices. They can IPO like The Trade Desk (not likely), get acquired like Yahoo (slightly more likely), sell to private equity like Marketo or Mediaocean (only an interim solution) or, as is now becoming the trend, find a Chinese consortium with an […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Paul Longhenry,  senior vice president of strategy, corporate and business development at Tapjoy. For the last 20 years, advertising technology has fueled development of the free internet and mobile services on […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bryce Clemmer, co-founder and CEO at Vadio. As soon as the opening ceremonies at the Summer Olympics started a few weeks ago, a chorus of angry voices emerged on social media. In an age […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Double Standard Google will punish mobile sites that allow intrusive interstitial advertising, but it apparently won’t hold mobile apps to the same standard, writes Lara O’Reilly for Business Insider. She points out Google’s AdMob still offers a mobile interstitial unit. It’s not that interstitials are less […]

Xaxis, despite scrutiny of its principal-based buying methods in the ANA’s June report, will grow at a forecasted rate of 25% year over year, WPP said on an investor call Wednesday. Based on the holding company’s H1 earnings report, neither WPP nor Xaxis have yet taken a major hit from the ANA’s findings. Advertising and […]

Upscale Las Vegas hotel Aria Resort & Casino wanted to draw a clearer correlation between viewability and video completions, two metrics sometimes at odds for advertisers. And as mobile video became more substantive in its media mix, it also needed to crack the creative demands of smaller screen sizes. When Aria set out two years […]