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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. When Even The Whales Are Small Fish Microsoft has new job listings for software engineers to develop a line of “low-cost PCs powered through advertising and subscriptions,” reports Windows Latest. It’s one of many recent cases where Microsoft Advertising supports another business line, […]

The third quarter wasn’t a good one for Roku, which shared belt-tightening plans in expectation of worse results to come during the all-important upcoming holiday season. That’s what happens when advertisers get nervous and hit the brakes.

Using data to try to predict the future is fine. Marketers do it all the time. But some events you can’t predict. The pandemic, anyone? “Sometimes data is about forecasting, but mostly it’s to create the capacity to respond,” said François-Xavier Pierrel, group chief data officer at JCDecaux, speaking at Web Summit in Lisbon this week.

The state of advertising at Twitter is a hot mess. And advertisers are starting to react. Plus: a primer on the Google Analytics deadline delay and changes to Google’s clean room, Ads Data Hub.

Like it did for the web, programmatic is transforming linear TV ad buying. But TV calls for a more nuanced approach. The programmatic technology that automates ad serving on TV will have to be different from the rest of the digital ad ecosystem, said Pooja Midha, EVP of Effectv, the ad sales division of Comcast Cable.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Who Wants To Play Monopsony? This week, a US judge blocked a merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster, two major publishing houses.  You may ask, why is a print publishing merger relevant?  Partly because it’s another example of legacy businesses […]

The New York Times’s subscription-focused strategy seems to be paying off amid a downturn in ad revenue. The Times reported 8% YoY revenue growth for Q3 2022, “with subscription revenue growth more than making up for a slight decline in overall advertising,” said President and CEO Meredith Kopit Levien.

If you think of livestream shopping in the US as a revolution, it’s a dud. But if you view it as a livestream shopping evolution, real progress is being made.

The future of TV is addressable, meaning one-to-one ad targeting to a device, across not just CTV but also linear inventory. Yet still, addressable TV remains a small piece of media buying, which the industry addressed at Paramount’s Addressable Now summit in New York City on Tuesday.

In recent months, the IAB Tech Lab’s seller-defined audiences (SDA) have rapidly emerged as a strong contender for privacy-compliant audience classification. But many publishers still rely on time-consuming, manual processes to assign categories to their content, writes Oleksii Borysov, VP of product at MGID.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ad Tech? What Ad Tech? One refrain from Google when it defends its third-party ad tech business is that ad tech is a minuscule contributor to Google’s revenue. Which begs the question: Why not get rid of it? But Google won’t quit ad […]

Ocean Spray is assembling its cross-channel campaigns for the holiday season – and just producing and managing the video assets alone requires Santa’s Workshop-levels of effort and cross-team collaboration. But fragmentation is both a challenge and opportunity, according to Melanie DiBiasio, the brand’s associate director of media and martech.

Call it a Halloween special. Our apparition of a guest this week, an anonymous ad tech Twitter personality, is staying beneath the invisibility cloak. “I’m not senior enough to get away with running my mouth,” says the @HumanPropensity account operator who goes by corndog.

To get more strategic with their targeting while also broadening their audience, some online sportsbooks are making a bet on programmatic. The effort and expense of getting someone to download a betting app is only valuable if that person goes on to place bets, and engagement is just a different animal in the gambling world.

Commerce data platform Klover raised $25 million in Series B funding and changed its parent company name to Attain. The newly branded Attain will use the funding to launch what it’s calling a software-as-a-service (SaaS) commerce data platform for marketers.

Publishers need to rethink their monetization strategies.

As the shift toward privacy takes away the low-hanging fruit of tracking users and selling user data, publishers need to play the long game – cultivating a dedicated audience by delivering authentic, high-quality experiences based on relevant content for their users.

Proctor & Gamble recently announced their support of The Trade Desk’s UID 2.0 identity framework. The partnership is significant for a couple of reasons. First, where P&G goes, other brands will follow. And second, approval hints at the rise of new walled gardens that could become even more powerful than Google and Facebook, writes Nancy Marzouk, CEO and founder of MediaWallah.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Safe Bet Which is “unsafe,” really: the tech or the media? Advertisers think of “brand safety” as an adjacency issue.  Is there a picture of a car crash? Maybe not Toyota.  Other brands avoid keywords like “gun control” and “abortion.” But there’s […]

Kubota Tractor Corporation has plenty of first-party data on customers who are likely to need its line of residential tractors and lawnmowers – namely, people who live on properties with a lot of land. But to capitalize on the trend of people moving from cities to rural locales during the COVID-19 pandemic, Kubota needed to be able to reach people who were actively looking to make such a move. That’s where Realtor.com’s first-party data came into play.

Bloomberg Media just turned off third-party ads on its site. But as it shuts the door to open-market programmatic, Bloomberg is opening a first-party data advertising platform. The business media giant described the change as part of a broader evolution in how online advertising works. “The reason we chose to make this investment is because […]

TAZO’s strategy under new ownership is to rebuild its brand on social media and its approach to media in general with a focus on sustainability, including a transition into product supply lines that are entirely regenerative by 2029, to help promote biodiversity. And that new strategy starts on TikTok.

The growth of streaming has pushed TV into the realm of digital media, enabling data-driven, audience-based advertising and near-real-time impression-level decisioning. This new era of TV advertising requires a new era of measurement that delivers the granularity and speed advertisers need to maximize campaign performance.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Playing The Game Amazon took its first real step into linear TV broadcast territory in September when it streamed its first live NFL game only carried on Amazon Prime, not a TV network. And, of course, Amazon is already feuding with Nielsen.   There’s […]

The ad tech hits keep coming this earnings season. The latest is Criteo, which reported total revenue of $446.9 million in Q3 2022, down from $508.6 million last year, while net profit in Q3 dropped from $24.2 million in 2021 to $6.5 million.

Publishers covet business from big brands, but working with small to mid-size businesses (SMBs) can be a major source of revenue growth. That’s why Reddit is shoring up its ad offering for SMB and mid-market clients by improving its onboarding process and launching an advertising API.

Brands historically have stayed on the sidelines when it comes to hot-button social and political issues. But nowadays, American consumers often expect – and even demand – that companies form an opinion on issues they’re close to. Namely, consumers expect brands to stand up for women’s rights, especially following the recent Roe v. Wade overturn.

Ad tech saw almost 1,500 M&As between 2020 and 2021. So is this consolidation trend here to stay? It looks like it’s a resounding yes, writes Matthew Papa, SVP of business and corporate development at Captify.

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. All Of A Twitter Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition must be near, because Musk is sounding like the real-world owner of Twitter and not a troll trying to harm the business.  “There has been much speculation about why I bought Twitter and what I […]