Are you having fun in the sandbox? I hope so, because it’s going to be awhile. Google‘s plan to deprecate third-party cookies by Q2 2022 will be delayed by almost two years, so publishers, advertisers and web developers have time to test and build feasible alternatives, the company announced in a blog post on Thursday. […]
Ad server Innovid is going public via a special purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC), a move aimed at driving the company’s plans for global expansion. Following approval by the Securities and Exchange Commision, the merger with ION Acquisition Corp. 2 would put Innovid’s total value at $1.3 billion. Plus, it allows Innovid to raise $403 million. […]
“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 Alexander Knudsen, VP of solutions engineering at Amobee. As marketers confront a data-deprecated world, contextual targeting is seeing a renaissance. But despite the fact that using content signals as proxies […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Alex Collmer, CEO of VidMob. We are entering an era of signal loss, in which media targeting will become less effective. Creative will have to pick up the slack. For the past decade, marketers have […]
Amazon’s advertising business has exploded in the past five years. Its DSP footprint now rivals Google and it has the second most-used SSP. The online retailer earned more than $22 billion in ad revenue just in the past year. But Amazon’s advertising business is also a sprawling, mysterious empire, even for advertisers that spend heavily […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Apple Strikes Back Lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday debated a sweeping set of antitrust bills aimed at Big Tech companies. One bill will provide more government funding to enforce antitrust laws. A second one, advanced by the committee, will prevent how […]
It’s been a whirlwind year of acquisitions, near mergers, SPACs and pre-IPO filings for companies in the content recommendation space. In September 2020, the proposed mega merger between Outbrain and Taboola fell apart. In January, Taboola announced plans to go public via a special purpose acquisition company. Three months later, Outbrain filed confidential S-1 paperwork […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Joanna Catalano, Chief Growth Officer of Piano. As Google closes the door on the era of the third-party cookie, the time is now for publishers and brands to prepare. So what exactly is the right […]
“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 Andrea Leigh, VP of strategy and insights at Ideoclick. Brands reimagined their media plans during the pandemic, and many must now reconcile their previous approach with emerging digital ad opportunities […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Shunned IAB Europe just elected its new board of directors and guess who didn’t make the cut? Google. For the first time in years, Google will not have a representative on IAB Europe’s board. [You can check out the newly elected crop here.] It’s […]
Twitter is integrating the CrossInstall mobile-only DSP it acquired last year with MoPub’s ad exchange platform in a push to woo more performance-based marketers. CrossInstall, which came along with its own bidder and proprietary creative ad formats, has been renamed MoPub Acquire and its team will now be part of MoPub, after having operated as […]
Another shoe has dropped. On Tuesday, the European Commission, which is the main executive body of the EU, opened a formal investigation into whether Google unfairly advantages its own ad tech services. The Commission, which was rumored late last week to be on the verge of launching an official probe, will focus on display advertising, […]
Hello, subscribers, are you there? Newsletter operators may ask that question more often, after Apple announced new privacy protections for email users earlier this month at the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference. Specifically, Apple introduced “Hide my Email,” a feature that generates fake email addresses that forward to someone’s real address, so people can sign […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Another IPO The ad tech IPOs keep rolling out. This time it’s Integral Ad Science Holding. The New York-based ad verification and measurement company announced the terms of its IPO on Monday, saying that it plans to raise $240 million by offering 15 million […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Similar to the Brood X Cicada hatch of 2021, the eruption of privacy-related news has been incubating for a long time. In this week’s episode, Sheila Colclasure, IPG-owned Kinesso’s global leader on digital responsibility and public policy, talks […]
Google’s AdX is a primary demand source for many small- and mid-size publishers. But the way they access that demand is about to change as Google gears up to revamp the partner program that smaller ad sellers use to access AdX. Pubs need a direct integration with Google in order to tap into AdX. Because […]
“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 Kerri Driscoll, VP of marketing strategy at Merkle. At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced its intention to put additional privacy parameters in place for email with its Mail Privacy […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Addressable Supergroup Some marketers are pushing their TV partners to operate more as the large digital companies that allow them to target ads to specific audiences. To address that need, the TV distributors Comcast, Charter Communications, Altice, Dish Media and Vizio are among eight […]
From Ohio to DC and from London to Paris, regulators and consumer privacy advocates are sharpening their pencils and their knives. If you don’t have time to keep track of all the actions underway, the biggest takeaway is not to expect a quiet summer. Regulators are increasingly convinced that scaled data collection can harm competition. […]
“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 David Kaganovsky, Global Chief Technology Officer, Wavemaker Global As the third-party cookie approaches its sunset, marketers are scrambling for alternatives. Could the customer data platform (CDP) be that solution, helping brands to thrive […]
Group Nine Media, which publishes Thrillist, NowThis, The Dodo, Seeker and PopSugar, launched a first-party data solution called “In-GeNuity” earlier this month in response to the coming disappearance of third-party cookies. The product matches brands with users based on content preferences – such as bringing together pizza lovers and a pizza delivery service. “We can […]
A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem… The votes are in for AdExchanger’s first-ever comic caption contest and we’ve got a winner. Congratulations to Adam Berkowitz for bringing the funny! And thanks to everyone for submitting and voting. Bon appetit! Although Tim Cook and Zuck don’t look like they’ve got much of […]
We’re entering the end-game for third-party cookies, but an unlikely group could intervene to keep them alive: regulators. Last Friday, Google agreed to let UK watchdog group Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) approve its decision to remove third-party cookies. The move is unusual, reports senior editor Allison Schiff, because it’s an example of regulators guiding […]
The “un-carrier” is getting into programmatic. T-Mobile has hired ad tech vet Mike Peralta, former CEO of AudienceScience, EVP at Criteo and CRO of Future, as VP of Marketing Solutions, an ad tech and analytics business unit that uses the company’s first-party mobile data. “Everyone’s watched what’s going on with AT&T and Verizon,” Peralta said, […]
Add another ad tech IPO to the growing list of companies that have gone public in recent months. Toronto-based demand-side platform AcuityAds on Monday said it closed out its initial public offering in the United States as well as a public offering in Canada with $57.5 million. On June 10, trading began on the Nasdaq […]
Music video hosting service Vevo has graduated from the smartphone to the living room. At the start of the pandemic, just 4% of its business came from connected TV. Today, nearly 50% of Vevo’s business comes courtesy of CTV, mainly through numerous distribution partnerships with the likes of Samsung, Pluto TV, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Court Date Dun, dun! Cue the “Law & Order” sound effect because the IAB Tech Lab is being taken to court in Germany by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) over what the advocacy group considers an ongoing breach of personal privacy by […]
Two years ago, Amazon announced a programmatic Fire TV program with The Trade Desk and dataxu as inaugural DSP partners. “This agreement is an important indicator of where the industry is going, and will become just one of many, over time,” The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green told employees at the time. But the dream […]
Podcast discovery can be as challenging for advertisers as it is for consumers. “It’s a mass reach vehicle, but the targeting and anti-targeting that advertisers can do in podcasts has been very manual in nature,” said Claire Fanning, VP of ad innovation strategy at SXM Media, the newly launched unified sales team that combines Pandora, […]
“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 Brian Bowman, CEO and founder of Consumer Acquisition. Apple killed the IDFA and Armageddon was upon us – or so we thought. IOS 14.5 was a landmark update that included Apple’s […]
