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Today, there are so many flavors of in-housing. The term itself has become a bit like “programmatic,” where the meaning across organizations varies so greatly that there’s little point in using it on its own. What matters now isn’t how brands define “in-house” or if in fact they “in-house” at all – it’s whether they approach their digital advertising strategically and thoughtfully, writes Dan Larden, head of UK at TPA Digital.

The marketing funnel is ever-changing, and cookie deprecation isn’t making things any easier. Advertisers have two choices, writes Tom Wolfe, SVP of business development at Viant: Collaborate with industry partners on the front edge of next-generation data solutions, or cling to the past and hope for the best.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Twitter Gets Bitter Just when Twitter thought Elon Musk was done scaring ad dollars away from the platform, a whistleblower jumped in with security breach accusations. As if advertisers aren’t already giving Twitter a wide enough berth.   The whistleblower is Peiter Zatko, Twitter’s own […]

The advertising landscape is changing across channels, markets and audiences. See what current data reveals about CTV, social, video, linear TV, AI advertising and local market dynamics – plus practical ways agencies can use those signals to spot opportunities, pressure-test assumptions and strengthen their strategic recommendations throughout 2026.

The programmatic payment gap is a well-known issue. In the latest OAREX half-year payment report released this week, late payments are back on the rise, although to a lesser degree than in 2020.

Broadcasters have long been dissatisfied with Nielsen’s panel-based approach. But now, panels are making headlines again as a fresh way to measure streaming and TV consumption. But this time, the TV industry says it’s talking about “calibration panels,” not audience panels.

For Bosch Power Tools’ new “What Hard Workers Deserve” ad campaign, the company had to weigh the best channels to convey its message in the face of changing consumer behavior. And for this campaign, the company decided to steer clear of linear TV.

Brands without scalable first-party data are turning to retailers to connect directly with customers. At the same time, writes Andreas Reiffen, CEO of Crealytics, retailers are seeking ways to combat margin pressure, emulate Amazon’s extraordinary advertising success, deepen relationships with brand partners, and better understand their customers. Cue the retail media boom. 

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Leaked Sneak Peek The TV industry waits with bated breath for Netflix’s and Disney’s ad-supported tiers to face off in 2023. In the meantime, Disney’s plans got leaked to Insider. Disney is pushing hard to promote its streaming inventory to advertisers before ads […]

Add MediaMath to the list of Unified ID 2.0 partners. On Tuesday, MediaMath announced its integration with UID2, which is an open-source industry initiative, spearheaded by The Trade Desk, that aims to replace third-party cookies with hashed and encrypted email-based IDs.

Confusing, murky and complex – the programmatic supply chain is a mess. So why do advertisers accept the status quo? Often, it’s because they have a serious case of FOFO: the fear of finding out, says Ruben Schreurs, Ebiquity’s chief product officer.

Marketers will soon be unable to rely on third-party data to understand customers at scale, and the jury is still out on how first-party data can power measurement. In an ID-free world, there are three ways partnerships can help marketers achieve holistic measurement to drive business outcomes and ROI: enhanced data, expedited insights and enablement of scale, writes Susan Tillou, SVP, global head of partnerships at Analytic Partners.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Brains, Brawn And Amazon Amazon’s next biggest competitor is … CVS? Amazon is placing bids on home health services provider Signify Health just one month after it bought One Medical Clinics for $4 billion, which CVS also had its eye on. Apparently, the more […]

TFW when you brag about the size of your graph on stage at an industry event, then it’s used as evidence against you. Oracle was hit with a class-action lawsuit on Friday accusing the company of “a deliberate and purposeful surveillance of the general population via their digital and online existence.”

Livestream shopping is nowhere near as popular in the US as it is in China. In the US, live commerce is less than one percent of US ecommerce, whereas in China, it’s expected to make up nearly a quarter of the ecommerce market by 2023. Livestream shopping could work for platforms and brands in the US – but only if it’s done in the right place.

In the past few weeks, a litany of the biggest US food, beverage and consumer goods brands, among them many of the world’s biggest advertisers, disclosed tepid quarterly revenue and lower year-over-year sales, which were more than offset by price increases so the overall revenue was up. And their investors are anxious to see durable profits and stronger relationships with retailers at a time when brand-to-retail relationships have become more complicated.

FAST channels are a good way to channel (pun intended) more viewers into VOD content libraries. Without sign-ins, payment or the burden of deciding what to watch, FAST channels have a lower barrier of entry, and ideally, viewers who find something new they like on FAST will continue watching the series more regularly in VOD.

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Brand awareness is top of mind for PepsiCo’s senior director of media strategy and investment Katie Haniffy. And PepsiCo is focused on adjusting its brand awareness campaigns in response to shifting consumer behavior, as well as pivoting to keep up with the latest evolutions in ad tech.

For women, finding health care treatment relating to sex is hard. But if you’re looking for “seggs,” that’s easy. DTC brands in the women’s health vertical are still stuck relying on algospeak to skirt around social platforms taking down their ads … As if marketing health care products and supplements for women wasn’t hard enough.

For Enthusiast Gaming, a publisher that specializes in ad-supported gaming content and game development, macroeconomic trends have contributed to a perfect storm. But Enthusiast is looking at the bright side, as advertiser interest in game-related properties is on the rise. Enthusiast CRO Bill Drolet talked to AdExchanger about gaming’s cross-platform value proposition, plans for continued direct sales growth, early forays into in-game advertising and more.

Advertisers in the U.S. are missing out on 46% of their addressable mobile audience. And desktop doesn’t fall behind. 40% of the audience is currently not reachable if you rely on IDs. Instead of opting for solutions that only get you halfway to your goals, keep three main points in mind: scale, accurate targeting and sustainability, writes Aaron McKee, CTO at Blis.

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Did The Oracle Get It Wrong? Is it time to call it on Oracle Advertising?  The group had painful layoffs this summer and has fallen behind rivals, Insider reports.  Oracle spent $4 billion to package BlueKai, Datalogix, Moat and more into what’s now […]

Signal loss combined with privacy concerns is helping bring old-school panel measurement back in style. Google just started recruiting for a panel this week. Plus: the future of attention metrics.

Marketers spent the past decade and a half obsessing over how to reach millennials (many of whom are in their late thirties by this point, god help us). Now, brands are turning their attention to Generation Z … and some are a little flummoxed about how to relate.

“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Today’s column is by Matt Sattel, VP of global brand partnerships at OpenX. Brands today often look at CTV inventory through two different lenses. Either it’s premium, walled-garden inventory that’s negotiated and purchased via upfronts and NewFronts – or […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Vast Ocean Mediaocean is planning to acquire video ad rendering company Imposium to boost its CTV ad product. Although Mediaocean has deep roots in software for TV ad management and analytics, it’s evolved to embrace CTV and digital over the past year. (The […]

The 2022 Inc. 5000 list was published on Tuesday, and although its purpose is mostly for marketing (companies pay for inclusion, after all), it is a useful benchmark for tracking the startup ecosystem.

Rather than looking at one particular data signal, attention metrics include a variety of data points, which are fed into a machine-learning model to predict the likelihood that a given media environment and ad creative will draw attention from a hypothetical audience member.