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.
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. That’s A Wrapped This week once again saw social timelines taken over by Spotify Wrapped, the audio service’s year-end user roundup of the most-played music and podcasts. In addition to highlighting Spotify’s first-party data, Wrapped has become the company’s most effective marketing tool, […]
Brand safety has a hypocrisy problem. Violence that gets a pass when it’s a fictional TV show becomes flagged if it’s part of an online news story. But to what end? Plus: what Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales results portend for retailers’ prospects in Q4 and beyond.
Clean rooms are ad tech’s answer to data privacy. But they can also give advertisers more accurate reach and frequency measurement through first-party audience matching. Disney has been building out its clean room for roughly a year, and announced an integration with VideoAmp on Thursday, which will bolster clean room measurement with VideoAmp’s TV viewership data.
Thanks to signal loss, recession fears and the “ad tech tax,” publishers of all sizes are seeing their ad revenue suffer. But the problem is more pronounced among local news publishers, many of which were barely getting by before platform privacy changes roiled the digital advertising industry. The Local Media Consortium (LMC) shares how it’s helping its members mitigate these headwinds.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Ailment Is Worse Than The Keurig Keurig Dr Pepper sparked a rare joint agency outcry regarding an RFP for its PR business. The beverage brand issued an RFP with 360-day payment terms – meaning the brand wouldn’t have to pay for work done […]
It’s not hard to imagine the applications of AI-generated art for media and marketing, including spitting out multiple variations of creative quickly, cheaply and easily. But AI art is also sparking a lot of very tricky questions, such as: What is “real” art, and can robots create it?
The Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday online shopping bonanza was in full effect this year. But it’s hard to make judgements about whether this season is helping buoy retailers and brands as in years past
SKAdNetwork (SKAN) 4.0 was released last month and there’s a lot to be optimistic about. But there’s also complexity to unpack. While Apple has focused on bringing more measurement into their framework, it could further fragment the advertising ecosystem, too. Katie Madding, chief product officer at Adjust, offers five key changes to be aware of.
SSPs had traditionally been among the first in the ad tech ecosystem to build profitable businesses. But their future in the programmatic tech stack is uncertain because they’ve evolved from publisher-centric technologies to demand aggregation businesses, often competing with their biggest customers: buy-side platforms or DSPs.
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CTV measurement is a total mess: Agree or disagree? “It’s a mess,” says Lynette Kaylor, SVP of North America ad sales at sports-focused streaming platform FuboTV. And don’t even get her started on using audience panels to measure streaming audiences.
With its new geospatial ad units, programmatic OOH SSP Place Exchange built a programmatic way for marketers to serve their ads across any mobility media inventory located within a particular geographic location. The company announced Tuesday it is rolling out geospatial ad units for all of its mobility media partners.
Advertisers of all stripes are rethinking their ad measurement and attribution strategy. But the burst of new incrementality testing models, in-housing programs, multitouch attribution and media mix modeling efforts haven’t exactly led to a renaissance of understanding how measurement works.
TV advertising is complicated enough without also having to worry about child-focused privacy regulations. But buyers and sellers need to consider the nuances when it comes to reaching and engaging children, including content relevancy and ad messaging strategies that differ depending on age.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Yahoo? Yahoo has taken a 25% stake in Taboola as part of a 30-year exclusive ad deal (uhh … pardon?) that makes Taboola the primary native inventory seller for Yahoo’s media properties, The New York Times reports. The announcement leaves questions hanging. A […]
