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Kroger Precision Marketing, the grocery chain’s retail media arm, announced plans to bring its self-serve retail media ad tech fully in-house and shared an update on how the project is going.

Some consumer insights are obvious: People who buy hot dog buns are more likely to buy hot dogs, for example. But Instacart has also observed some far less intuitive online shopping behavior on its platform.

Now that the new California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) has long been in effect, it’s time to clean up your pixel game.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Chasing Influencers The creator economy spending frenzy that began in 2020 has fizzled. Investor funds ran dry, which means most of the startups and businesses built on short-term platform creator funds and VC rounds are unlikely to find a happy exit. “It was the […]

The BOMESI Collective, which includes 50 Black-owned publishers, is now integrated with Concert, Vox Media’s supply-side platform.

The company’s immediate plans for reinvesting its new capital include hiring more executive leadership to spearhead sales and partnerships, growing its engineering team and expanding its presence in the US and Japan.

One-fifth of the US population is Hispanic. But Spanish speakers are sorely underrepresented in measurement ratings, so advertisers miss out on audience buying opportunities, says TelevisaUnivision’s Dan Aversano. To bridge that gap, media companies must be more comfortable with privacy-safe data sharing.

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Donatos Pizza’s loyalty program has yielded growth for the company and allowed it to tap into data to identify patterns and trends, segment audiences and personalize its messages.

The new version of header bidding software makes it easier to identify specific ad transactions, gives publishers more granular control over how they express user consent to downstream partners, and enables testing of Google’s Privacy Sandbox.

The 70th annual Cannes Lions moved faster than ever to match the speed of the convergence of convergences happening in the industry. Here are five themes that stood out from the event.

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“How did they let us into this thing?” After a week at the Cannes Lions, Sarah and Allison share what they learned from advertising’s networking festival, set against the backdrop of White Lotus and Below Deck.

AdsPostX’s OmniSDK tool identifies and combines implicit and explicit signals about user behavior. Retailers can use this information to show customers relevant offers after checkout.

Disney has its hands full bringing Hulu’s ad targeting products onto Disney+. It takes time to migrate less conventional ad formats onto both on-demand and live inventory while keeping the ad load under control.

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. All Work And No Pure-Play … Nobody wants to be an SSP anymore. But is supply-side ad tech really in such bad shape?  Index Exchange is the loudest – if not the only – voice still backing the pure-play publisher ad tech role. Co-founder […]

Albertsons Media Collective, the retail media network (RMN) operated by food and drug retailer Albertsons, released a working draft of a retail media standardization framework on Thursday.

The dormant subscribers Daily Voice has reactivated so far this year are more engaged and attract higher CPMs for their impressions than its wider subscriber base.

How do you solve a problem like coupon code leakage? Outway Socks worked with Social Snowball, a Shopify-exclusive affiliate platform for e-commerce, to find out.

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The pandemic aftermath spurred major changes to Evite’s business model, including a pivot away from display ads in favor of affiliate and influencer marketing.

Data privacy law is becoming more technically complex, and enforcers are getting increasingly savvy about how online tracking technology works. That’s why being a privacy lawyer today means diving into the technical details, says Daniel Rosenzweig, a senior associate at Norton Rose Fulbright.

Video and CTV bring challenges and opportunities for notice and choice. And doubts persist about whether the industry can self-regulate on the issue.

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Paramount launches a clean room integration with Havas Media Group using LiveRamp’s data collaboration software. Because the software is cloud-based, it can plug into other related technology that clients may already be using.

AppsFlyer’s solution allows advertisers and DSPs to create custom first-party segments for reengagement campaigns without needing an SDK integration of their own.

Ibotta’s consumer-focused offering still makes up more than half of its business, according to CEO and founder Bryan Leach. But its performance marketing network is its future.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rain or Shine Magna nudged its global ad spend forecast downward in its latest report, released over the weekend, but you can save the drama for your llama. The slide only amounts to a 0.2% drop.  Magna expects that ad revenue will grow […]

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