Between Wednesday and Friday of last week, practically every independent ad tech company (The Trade Desk, Magnite, Criteo, Viant, System1, Tremor and PubMatic to name but a few) had a much-needed bump up in its share price. Can it last?
Publishers’ operational success depends on the abilities of a few specific individuals. If you have amazing operations leaders that can think strategically, you can do things other publishers can’t. But lose that leadership and the company’s future prospects take a hit, writes Rob Beeler, founder and CEO at Beeler.Tech.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Top Tier Broadcasters must convince investors that streaming media is a sound bet. Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway, for one, just spiked its stake in Paramount. A big factor will be whether relatively high AVOD prices are maintainable over time. Netflix, for example, has been […]
There’s rapid progress being made on the Android version of Privacy Sandbox. Google said it plans to roll out the initial Privacy Sandbox beta to Android 13 mobile devices starting early next year. Google first announced the Android Privacy Sandbox less than a year ago, in February. Android 13 was released in September.
As BuzzFeed struggles with advertiser uncertainty and a drop in user engagement, it reported flat Q3 ad revenue. Advertising revenue was $50 million, matching last year’s Q3. Ad revenue growth decelerated compared to Q2, “driven by ongoing price compression and uncertainty around consumer demand,” said BuzzFeed CFO Felicia DellaFortuna.
It’s almost impossible for advertisers to know who’s really sitting in front of a TV screen, and they typically aren’t told what content their ads are running against, either. TV measurement companies are turning back to panels for help. Panel-based measurement provider TVision announced a $16 million venture round led by alternative TV measurement provider iSpot.
Only about half of marketers are utilizing the full breadth of capabilities of their marketing tech stack. But, writes Katie Klumper, CEO and founder of Black Glass, what if we treated technology like a team member?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Has Lifetime Value Timed Out? It was the best of LTV, it was the worst of LTV. In mobile marketing, lifetime value (LTV) has long been considered a key metric for many data-savvy marketers. But times are changing, writes Eric Seufert at Mobile Dev […]
When the pandemic hit, the global marketing team at Japan Airlines saw its budget disappear overnight. But rather than sitting, idle, JAL used the downtime to get its global marketing house in order and prepare for the day when Japan reopened its borders.
Tostitos recently implemented sonic branding and a new sonic logo into its cross-channel media campaigns and has been spending more on streaming audio channels. Audio now makes up between 30% and 40% of any given Tostitos campaign – or more, depending on the KPI.
We’re halfway through the football season, but streaming sports is just kicking off. The Amazon Prime “Thursday Night Football” show began in September and it represents the first time that the NFL is streaming games without a linear broadcaster alongside.
As long as major live sports airs on broadcast and cable, linear will stay relevant to consumers and thus to advertisers. But the sports industry is now also looking to participate in high-growth areas, including streaming video and connected TV. And major streaming-first platforms are giving broadcast a run for its money, writes Scott Sottile, chief revenue officer at Unruly.
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CTV advertisers still don’t know much about what content they’re running against, other than the fact it’s on the big screen. And they’ve had enough of it already. Buyers’ lack of visibility into which network, program or distribution channel their ads are served is almost enough to wish for the good old days of program guides.
Facebook’s ad platform is still misfiring and ad buyers are resorting to desperate measures, including a pay-for-access fee scheme that led to the firing of multiple Meta employees. Plus: It’s ad tech earnings week … and the category isn’t doing too hot.
What will data look like in a privacy-first world? Marketers will need to scale their data usage based on contextual privacy sensitivity and specific use cases. This sliding scale will consist of three classifications of data: features, services and adjacent data sources, writes Femi Taiwo, head of consultancy, Europe, at Assembly Global.
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What’s For Sale? Amazon has started down the path of “Googlification.” Which is to say, its search engine has flipped from primarily serving up the best organic options to servicing advertisers with the best prospecting and conquesting opportunities. There were turf wars in […]
Magnite’s quarterly revenue was up 11% year-over-year in Q3, with a large chunk of its growth coming from streaming. Growth guidance is conservative for next quarter, but Magnite expects AVOD inventory and retail media to become bigger growth drivers for its bottom line.
Turkey brand Butterball wants to reach millennials because they’re the most likely to become first-time Thanksgiving dinner hosts soon, at least according to the company’s research. But younger generations are less familiar with the brand than older ones, so Butterball is leaning heavily on streaming and social media, particularly TikTok, in its video campaign leading up to Thanksgiving this year.
Performance marketing is a CFO’s dream – it drives measurable growth for every dollar spent. That’s why it’s absolutely essential in an unstable economic climate, writes Sean Popen, EVP at Matterkind.
After losing out to Microsoft on the Netflix deal, Alphabet’s Google is still licking its wounds. But just because you lost a battle doesn’t mean the war is over. Google needs to immediately get back into the CTV/OTT fight with all the muscle it can muster, writes Jay Krihak, executive director at Crossmedia.
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Turns out 2022 was a bad year to merge two large media companies into one massive media company. Both Dotdash and Meredith experienced headwinds throughout the year. Traffic was soft compared with the rise in consumption during the pandemic, and the digital advertising market was unexpectedly weak. And next year isn’t looking rosy.
The Trade Desk’s revenue machine is still running strong. But with an economic downturn on the horizon, investors are pressing for TTD’s areas of optimism to translate into bottom line results.
PubMatic’s total Q3 revenue grew 11% to $64.5 million despite an industry-wide downturn, but the company doesn’t have high hopes for the rest of the year. It expects that ad spend will continue to trend down in Q4. But although spending is decelerating due to recession fears, PubMatic is planning to capitalize on the eventual rebound by focusing on video, retail media and particularly CTV, which continues to grow.
Only the strong survive: This has long been an inspirational tenet for ad tech, but it also describes the industry’s insidious malvertising problem.
Better technology and broader awareness have mostly constrained the most conspicuous breed of malvertising – forced redirects – that plagued us five years ago. What’s left now is a new strain of attacks that are more diverse, more profitable and harder to detect: malicious clickbait, tech-support scams and malware-infected software downloads.
Disney is losing money faster than it’s adding subscribers. The media giant reported a $1.5 billion loss on its streaming business lines for the quarter, calling Q4 the peak of its operating losses. But Disney isn’t worried (or so it seems). It’s hanging on until the US launch of an ad-supported Disney+ tier on December 8.
SmartNews uses the first-party data it gathers from its users to create more intelligent content recommendations and serve more relevant ads. It’s also investing in its own ad stack so it can activate its first-party data by creating contextual audience segments that it can sell programmatically on the open web and as part of its new direct sales offering.
In theory, there is a lot a publisher may know about how audiences interact with their content that doesn’t fit neatly into the way cookies operate or the broader categorization schemas that are used today. This is where SDAs can make all the difference, writes Andrew Rosenman, global product marketing lead for advanced TV and video at Equativ.
