Ad blockers are still a thing, even if you haven’t heard much about them in the past few years. And they still see widespread use among ad-weary audiences. But while some publishers may write off ad-blocker users as a lost cause, some like AccuWeather are finding success monetizing this part of their audience through bypass solutions.
Half of the $200 billiion ad market pie is funded by mid-market and long-tail advertisers that keep the global ad engine running. But despite representing such a massive chunk of the marketplace, mid-market advertisers face many constraints with few tools to answer the most basic existential questions in advertising, writes Marilois Snowman, CEO & Founder of Mediastruction.
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As data-driven advertising undergoes an unwanted rebrand by privacy advocates to “surveillance advertising,” we take the pulse of privacy professionals and talk about how they talked about ad tech at a recent privacy conference in Washington, DC. Plus: The rise of in-game advertising and what it needs to do in order to level up.
The term “sustainable marketing” calls to mind disposable bamboo razor handles from Schick, the promise McDonald’s made last year that by 2025 all Happy Meal toys will be made from environmentally friendly material and Coca-Cola’s plan to launch a new bottle made from 100% recycled plastic. But digital media has a carbon footprint, too. A big one.
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Shape Up Or Shop Out Parallel news items reinforce the massive relative advantage for Amazon and its ad business compared with Facebook and Shopify in the wake of Apple’s data privacy overhaul. For years, rumors flew that Facebook was angling to acquire Shopify, The […]
The day has finally come – Netflix is considering ads after it lost 200,000 subscribers in Q1, the streamer’s first subscriber loss in a decade. It won’t be easy, but Netflix will need to find a way to keep customers (and their wallets) satisfied. Ads will be a slow rollout that Netflix hopes to phase in within a year or two, CEO Reed Hastings said on Tuesday’s earnings call.
On Thursday, CTV performance advertising company tvScientific announced a $20 million Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners, bringing the company’s total funding to $21.5 million. The company’s goal is to automate its two self-proclaimed specialties: measurement optimization and campaign activation.
The Roku Channel was born in 2017 as a licensed third-party content hub to woo audiences toward streaming. Then, the channel began courting original content in 2021. The wider the content distribution, “the more engagement we can drive with our advertisers and the more we can monetize and invest in content,” said Katina Papas Wachter, head of ad sales and strategy at The Roku Channel.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Sharpening Their Tools Privacy and antitrust enforcement is thorny enough. But coverage often misses the most important fact: Some companies are more popular targets, and others are not. A $75 billion Google or Amazon acquisition of Activision Blizzard would be challenged. Microsoft’s deal for […]
TikTok doesn’t compete with Facebook or Instagram. Neither does Twitter, Pinterest or LinkedIn. Really. At least not according to the Federal Trade Commission in its antitrust complaint against Meta. But excluding TikTok is like a gift for Meta’s lawyers.
It seems like everyone’s talking about the cookieless future, but many publishers are living in the cookieless present – and they need alternatives today. Roughly 65% of the Daily Mail’s programmatic ad inventory, for instance, is currently cookieless, so it has been busy testing cookieless ID solutions to support its programmatic ad business. One of these solutions is Lexicon, provided by supply-side platform 33Across.
There is a ton of fear and hysteria right now on both the buy side and the sell side, as the death of the third-party cookie nears. But there are still plenty of powerful ways to target audiences that don’t involve technology, writes Erik Requidan, Founder and CEO of Media Tradecraft.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. I See You … Tube DoubleVerify has gained MRC accreditation as a third-party measurement provider of viewability reporting on YouTube. Specifically, the seal covers DoubleVerify’s access to YouTube site and in-app page-level information via Ads Data Hub, the cloud service that houses Google’s […]
Clients of growth marketing agency Tuff saw “painful” results on Facebook as a result of signal loss, but it’s been able to roll with the changes, according to CEO Ellen Jantsch. There was even a silver lining. Apple’s ATT accelerated the indie agency’s move away from last-click attribution. Plus: navigating an acquisition while pregnant.
Roku wants in on the clean room conversation. The streaming TV platform announced its proprietary clean room offering on Tuesday, with agency partners including Omnicom Media Group, Horizon Media and dentsu. The product was built on Snowflake’s media and ad tech cloud data infrastructure.
On Tuesday, VideoAmp announced its acquisition of Elsy, an analytics platform founded in 2015 that helps advertisers optimize their media investments tied to business outcomes. The idea is to address VideoAmp clients’ biggest campaign planning hurdles: Automation and forecasting business outcomes.
A morphing of three international companies, DigitalReef announced on Tuesday it’s acquiring connected TV platform Column6 to extend its mobile strategy into CTV in the Latin American region. Mobile devices are currently the “first screen” in LATAM when it comes to media consumption, but as CTV ad spend explodes, that’s expected to change – and quickly.
Knowing which partners and platforms have access to your data – and how they’re using it – isn’t always obvious. But understanding what makes you vulnerable is half the battle. David Blaszkowsky, head of strategy and development at Helios Data, details three hidden data risks every marketer needs to know – and what you can do about them.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Movers And Shakers Did you feel that? There have been some seismic moves lately in Ad Tech Land – not even counting M&A or privacy rules. Stephanie Layser, longtime leader of News Corp.’s advertising technology, is taking her talents to the cloud. She […]
Noodle & Company first started a rewards program in 2017, but for the first few years the goal was mainly to “surprise and delight” customers with random freebies or upgrades. In late 2019, it became a points-based program. The most significant aspect of the program’s transformation is mental, going from serving up random benefits to a system “based on personalized [and] targeted offers to individual guests.”
With FLEDGE origin trials just begun – they finally kicked off on March 31 after multiple delays – publishers and advertisers need to get up to speed. But how is FLEDGE different from other targeting-focused proposals within the Chrome Privacy Sandbox, what use cases does it support and – most importantly – is FLEDGE a viable and privacy-safe alternative to third-party cookies?
The latest wave of gaming and ad tech consolidation has the industry exploring new advertising opportunities. But in-game ads require a very deep understanding of your audience – ad tech and gaming mergers “need to own their customer relationships bean to cup,” writes Ionut Ciobotaru, co-CEO of Verve Group.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Thinking Outside The Xbox Microsoft is evaluating vendors to help launch an in-game Xbox ad network for free-to-play titles, Insider reports. Rather than interstitials that appear between breaks in mobile games, the Xbox network would help place a snazzier type of ad, like a […]
Recently, McCormick brand Frank’s Redhot placed banner ads inside Basketball Battle, a free-to-play 2D basketball game developed for mobile devices. A proprietary metric from Frameplay, an in-game advertising company which uses computer vision to measure the viewability of in-game ads, monitored how long the ad remained visible to the player and compared these results to attention metrics for more established channels like social media.
Data privacy is a hot topic, but children’s privacy is often kept on the backburner. Compliance with child data protection laws is hard to get right because it involves determining the exact age of your audience – and playing by different rules accordingly. Staying on the right side of COPPA isn’t easy.
Digital media buyers and planners don’t always understand why an ad works. The key to this critical missing information lies in the simplest of places: naming conventions and tagging, says Jackie Saplicki, global senior director of tech consulting and architecture at Media.Monks.
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Clean Rooms Get Messy The point of clean room tech is to safeguard user data by limiting access to that data while still allowing it to be queried for analytics or ID matches. But does the proliferation of clean room services – and the […]
