Google Ad Manager (GAM) was out of commission for about three hours Thursday evening across web, app and video inventory. Any ad placement served through GAM, even ads monetized by a non-Google SSP, went dark, leading to lost revenue for publishers of all sizes at a time when they can least afford to lose out on revenue.
Most people have already heard of Pizza Hut. But high awareness isn’t enough to generate new and consistent sales. Which is why well-known brands like Pizza Hut are looking to new channels, including CTV, to drive incremental sales by reaching younger and, hopefully, incremental audiences who could eventually turn into repeat customers.
In 1973, Timberland – then called Abington Shoe Company – debuted its waterproof yellow boots. In 2023, the outdoor apparel and accessories company will observe the boot’s 50th anniversary. And Ezra Martin, Timberland’s newly minted vice president of marketing, Americas, will be rolling out a new marketing strategy for the occasion. Martin shares his insights on personalized customer experiences, localized campaigns and more.
The Competition and Transparency in Digital Advertising Act, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act and efforts to change Google’s and Apple’s mobile advertising practices would force companies to adopt new practices and technologies to understand and act on consumer identity. Mathieu Roche, co-founder and CEO at ID5, dives into each initiative and its implications.
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Can You Talk The Tok? With TikTok, it’s like the clone wars. (We’re looking at you, Reels and Shorts.) But TikTok has a special power, which is its seemingly limitless feed of quick, infinitely swipeable, likable, shareable videos. Reproducing TikTok’s success is no […]
DOOH has been thought of as pure branding, according to Elliott Hasiuk, principal for digital media at Part and Sum. That makes sense, considering out-of-home media might just be a big picture of, say, a Big Mac and the McDonald’s arches plastered 40 feet in the air. “Now we’re able to tie that branding to bottom-of-the-funnel metrics that matter more to the business.”
Fingerprinting, an alternative to third-party cookies, uses a constellation of browser signals to identify a person. The browsers don’t like it, but can they actually stamp it out? Plus: Advertising will grow, albeit slowly, in 2023, according to recent ad agency forecasts.
NBTV is part of a growing trend of content studios producing long-form sponsored video for advertisers. Its channel Spirits Network works directly with brands on sponsored video content with shoppable ads that highlight specific spirits and liquor products on-screen and link directly to an ecommerce page and checkout option.
Video creators like Tastemade are blurring the lines between short- and long-form video. Tastemade launched in 2012 to create food-focused video content for social media platforms, but the exploding growth in connected TV viewership triggered a transition for Tastemade to expand into a broader media company that includes streaming channels.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. From Ad Pod To Episode Advertisers are increasingly participating at the ground level of TV shows or even producing their own content. On streaming services, the tactic gives marketers a way onto streaming services that don’t run ads or have a much lighter ad […]
The quality of marketing data – or, rather, the lack thereof – is arguably as big of an issue as signal loss, but doesn’t get nearly as much ink. On Wednesday, data validation provider Truthset opened the doors of its data collective to help data providers independently test the accuracy of their consumer records.
The IAB Tech Lab has updated its OpenRTB standard to include objects specifically designed for DOOH. It also published new DOOH-specific guidelines and technical resources for real time bidding in collaboration with the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA) and Outsmart, the Out of Home Advertising Association for the UK.
OOH advertising spend is nearly back to prepandemic highs as of Q2 2022. This rapid rebound and growth are creating an inflection point for the category – one that’s driving a renaissance for OOH and digital OOH ad experiences going into 2023.
FTC v Kochava is a landmark battle in the long war over data privacy regulations. But regardless of how this particular case turns out, the digital marketing industry needs clearer standards for the collection, exchange and use of consumer data, writes Carolina Abenante, co-founder of NYIAX.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. BuzzCuts BuzzFeed is laying off 12% of its workforce, Variety reports, based on an SEC filing. The reduction will apparently help BuzzFeed “weather an economic downturn that I believe will extend well into 2023,” writes CEO Jonah Peretti in a memo. BuzzFeed’s revenue […]
The landmark shift toward privacy is turning the digital advertising industry on its head. A definitive 98% of advertisers say they’re concerned about online privacy and identity changes negatively impacting customer and audience trust. Permutive teamed up with AdExchanger because it wanted to understand: Where do we go from here? What followed was an in-depth […]
Mary Engle is EVP of policy at BBB National Programs, a nonprofit organization that’s helping keep self-regulation of the ad industry alive. She’s also spent more than three decades with the FTC. In this episode, Engle gets into the weeds on “commercial surveillance,” the nitty-gritty of ad disclosures, the FTC’s case against Kochava and more.
Recently, when The North Face ran an RFP for a programmatic buying agency, it went with WITHIN, which also happens to be the performance agency that won its creative services RFP earlier this year. The agency restructuring reflects a broader change for The North Face’s marketing, says media VP Bethany Evans.
Betterment, an investment and financial services app that competes with Robinhood, has typically focused its digital advertising efforts on the bottom of the marketing funnel, including search and social. But spurred by the meme-stock-driven rise of retail investing, the company decided to change up its tactics and pursue a brand awareness campaign centered on digital out-of-home (DOOH).
Brands are feeling the pressure to cut costs as the global economy remains uncertain. Some are even appealing to agencies to extend payment terms to get a handle on their finances. But it’s time for payment terms to be pruned to reasonable lengths to restore brand-agency relations and ensure supply chains don’t become overburdened with debts, writes Hasan Arik, Founder and CPO, Redmill Solutions.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The State Of Digital Marketing (Is Not Great) The LUMA State of Digital Marketing report generally paints a rose-tinted scene for ad tech. The same is true this year, though a few metrics stick out. For one, although every category is down in the […]
For more than a decade, the ad tech industry has tried to replace the term “fingerprinting” with euphemisms, like probabilistic modeling. But too bad for ad tech, because the term stuck.
We’re going back to the basics in 2023. After a few years of big spending on brand campaigns and doing test drives of emerging channels, inflation and recessionary pressures mean pumping the brakes on superfluous spending and the nice-to-haves. Here are the key trends I see driving digital marketing in 2023.
Global advertising revenue grew 6.5% in 2022 and is projected to grow 5.9% in 2023, according to GroupM’s global year-end industry growth forecast. Meanwhile, Magna’s December global ad forecast predicts 4.8% growth in 2023 after 6.6% growth in 2022.
The good news for streaming providers is that consumers are on board with how they deliver content, especially when they can save a few bucks with free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) and ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD). However, despite these free or low-cost ad-supported content options, streaming services are still struggling to gain and retain subscribers.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Podcast To Cart Podcast advertising is plagued by measurement challenges. For example, there’s nothing to click or optimize. But marketers still like the channel for its intimacy and because podcasts are starting to pop in attribution reports. Ecommerce retailer Uncommon Goods spent $2.8 million […]
Last week, the IAB’s multistate privacy agreement (MSPA) was made available for advertisers, publishers and ad tech partners to sign and begin using to track their data flows. But what is the MSPA?
Social media has been a petri dish for live video shopping in China. But in the US, although social shopping is starting to pick up, it hasn’t gained much traction yet. Still, companies like the ecommerce startup CommentSold are betting that live shopping is finally about to take off — with the right tech and the right training in place, that is.
Back in 2018, Tim Cook said, “The truth is, we could make a ton of money if we monetized our customer—if our customer was our product.” Fast-forward to 2022, and, to deliver the most relevant Apple Search Ads, the company uses “information a customer includes in their Apple ID account” for ad targeting purposes. If that isn’t monetizing your customers, what is, writes Uriah Av-Ron, partner and founder at Oasis Public Relations.
