“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Sona Pehlivanian, vice president, addressable campaign management and operations at New York Interconnect. As the move toward a privacy-first digital landscape gains steam on multiple fronts, many ad industry players are turning to the TV […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Podcast Talk Podcasting has heated up, with big M&A deals in recent years, including Amazon’s acquisition of Wondery for $300 million and Spotify’s $235 million deal for Megaphone. Podcast advertising is forecasted to exceed $2 billion by 2023, according to emarketer, which revised up […]
The landscape for IP-delivered TV ads is a heck of a lot different from digital advertising. For one, consolidation is happening extremely slowly, if at all. The number of scaled platforms with big audiences is crowded and diverse and includes Roku, Amazon, Google/YouTube, Disney, NBCU/Peacock, AT&T and Comcast among many others. This week on AdExchanger […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Sting Like A VAB Days after the Media Rating Council stripped Nielsen of its accreditation for National and Local TV Ratings, the Video Advertising Bureau is getting in another dig. The industry group kickstarted Nielsen’s MRC drama in July with a call to remove […]
To help advertisers reach specific audiences in ad-supported video, Samsung Ads built a predictive campaign planning tool for connected TV. Audience Advisor is an analytics tool that uses Samsung’s own first-party data, combined with third-party data, to give brands and agencies a view into how much time specific audiences are spending viewing AVOD, as well […]
Are you tired of SPACs already? Too bad! There are more SPACs. Another market entrant is the performance advertising company System1, which will list on the Nasdaq later this year, likely by November, after completing a merger with one such “special purpose acquisition company,” said CEO and co-founder Michael Blend. System1’s SPAC arrangement isn’t analogous […]
As connected TV takes off, Amazon is making a bold move: It’s making its own TVs. Amazon – which already sells the Fire TV Stick and operates a CTV app store and an AVOD and SVOD service – is branching out into TV manufacturing, according to a report by Insider. What’s in it for the […]
This article is sponsored by Oracle Advertising. CTV is undoubtedly becoming a critical slice of the advertising pie. After months at home in lockdown, without restaurants, movie theaters or live events to attend, television – more specifically, CTV – was the real winner. Between Q3 2019 and Q3 2020, streaming adoption increased 11% among viewers […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by David Levy, CEO at OpenAP. The pandemic boom in streaming TV drove a massive investment in programming. US production companies produced 537 shows last year, up from just 381 the year before – despite the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Disrupting Who? Warby Parker and Allbirds, two DTC standouts, filed their pre-IPO S-1s last week. It was a reminder of the challenges facing digitally native vertical brands (DNVBs). Each company had its best sales year in 2020, with strong growth rates and retail businesses. […]
New York-based startup Marpipe clinched $8 million in Series A funding with the backing of some big-name investors that it will use to fuel the growth of its creative testing platform as it looks to become an ad tech unicorn. The company, founded by 26-year-old CEO Dan Pantelo last year, uses automation to generate thousands […]
The Media Rating Council (MRC) may have stripped Nielsen of its National and Local TV accreditation last week, but it also made another significant announcement: It is now defining over-the-top as connected TV. The MRC issued final measurement guidelines on August 30 for CTV. The guidelines, first established with the IAB in 2018 in order […]
”Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Sharon Harris, Global Chief Marketing Officer of Jellyfish. Data privacy is front and center in every digital technology conversation today. CMOs are now the stewards of the brand-consumer relationship and […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Damian Benders, general manager of B Code Media. The world’s commitment to addressing social injustice has been magnified and reinvigorated. After the movement gained massive momentum in the past year, more advertisers acknowledged the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Is The Cart Half Full Or Half Empty? Instacart’s grocery delivery business has slowed, or at best is showing zero sales growth from this time last year. That’s largely because quarantines forced people to order online, and many have returned to in-store shopping. Frankly, […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Jean-Christophe Peube, SVP, Analytics & Customer Experience, Smart. Gangsters always follow the money. And today, all roads lead the digital ad fraudsters to the over-the-top (OTT) and connected TV (CTV) space, where prices are high and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The TV Prize Amazon plans to introduce its own line of smart TVs in the United States, perhaps as early as October, Business Insider reports. On the one hand, it’s surprising Amazon hasn’t released its own television, since it would be a natural extension […]
More than a decade ago, a tiny group of vendors emerged to help answer a single marketer question: Did my ad run when and where the publisher promised? Since then the verification category has steadily expanded into adjacent areas. Was my ad viewable by the end user? Was it served to a live human? And […]
Facebook’s org chart is changing. Several of its most longstanding and recognizable advertising and media executives left big blue for greener (or at least other) pastures this summer. Just this week, Mark D’Arcy, Facebook’s chief creative officer and VP of global business marketing, said he’ll be stepping down after more than a decade with the […]
There is a distinct Amazon approach to advertising, and it’s taking over the rest of retail media. To be successful within the walled garden platform, brands must be sharply focused on search. They also become accustomed to seeing ad costs factored as an incremental part of overall sales. Spectrum Brands honed its advertising approach on […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. They See Me Rollin’ Uber tapped former Sizmek CEO and Amazon ad exec Mark Grether to lead its advertising business, Business Insider reports. Poaching Grether is a big deal for Uber as it stands up a global advertising strategy. Though Uber’s ad revenue isn’t […]
On Thursday, iOS 15 beta testers who opened Apple’s App Store or Stock apps were presented with a pop-up requesting permission to enable personalized advertising. This is the first time Apple has asked users to opt in to personalized ads in its own apps. It’s a big deal, but there’s also a big caveat: Personalized […]
Reddit launched a new native ad unit Thursday, four months after discontinuing all programmatic advertising on its site on April 30. The offering, called Conversation Placement, appears in comment threads on Reddit sandwiched between the original post above and the first comment in the thread below. The ads are available through Reddit’s direct sales channels […]
China’s new privacy law, the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), is no GDPR – but it’s close. PIPL requires an opt-in and aims to help Chinese citizens get better control over their personal data. But the law exists alongside other more surveillance-focused policies, such as China’s recent requirement that video game companies collect the real […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Frank Sgrizzi, Advisor, Topwater Advisory Group and former EVP of Sales and Client Partnerships at WarnerMedia. “On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. FTC You Next Time The FTC had its Facebook antitrust case dismissed, and recently refiled a new suit. The issue is if Facebook’s competition includes YouTube, Snap, Pinterest, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit, Twitter, Spotify, Hulu and Netflix, then it’s hardly a monopolized market. The FTC’s […]
The Media Rating Council stripped Nielsen of its National TV ratings accreditation Wednesday and formally denied its request for a hiatus after the measurement giant underreported viewers during the pandemic. Nielsen asked the MRC last month to put its accreditation on hold in order to address issues with its panels and focus on the development […]
Multinational brands and ad tech companies doing business in China will have new hoops to jump through starting November 1. That’s when China’s newly passed privacy regulation, the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), goes into effect. The National People’s Congress, China’s top legislative body, voted to adopt the law on August 21. That doesn’t leave […]
