Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. It’s fitting that Gyanda Sachdeva, LinkedIn’s VP of product management, found her first job as a financial analyst after grad school by reaching out to people on LinkedIn. In 2010, Sachdeva joined LinkedIn and quickly rose through the […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Fiksu COO Anna Kuzmenko. Throughout the past decade, viewers’ rising demands for streaming services and their changing viewership habits have been transforming the European digital TV market. AVOD in the European digital TV market AVOD […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. French Connection Google is close to settling an antitrust case in France. The company stands accused of, wait for it, abusing its power in online advertising. The settlement will likely include a fine and require Google to make some operational changes, The Wall Street […]
Cheerio, Europe. Experian-owned Tapad is exiting its European business after seven years in the market. Tapad will stop the delivery and use of its graph in the EU by August 1. The company denies rumors that its move is a preemptive measure to avoid an investigation by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office. “Our decision to […]
When the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) started analyzing the privacy tech vendor landscape in 2016, there were 44 vendors on the scene. This year, that number reached more than 350. “We really started noticing it after GDPR was passed in the EU, during that two-year ramp-up period before it went into effect in […]
“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 Andrew Bloom, Chief Commercial Officer of Data Axle. Our industry spends a lot of time talking about “walled gardens” and the hazards that their policies pose to the broader digital […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is by Mike Chowla, Sr. Director of Product Management at PubMatic and video chair for Prebid. The retirement of VPAID has been announced several times, including in 2017 and 2019. However, as of May 2021, VPAID is still widely used. If VPAID could talk, it would surely use the Mark Twain quip, “The report […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Grace (Period) Under Fire Everyone knows that fingerprinting on iOS 14 is about as kosher as a strip of bacon on a piece of gefilte fish … right? Although Apple’s AppTrackingTransparency framework explicitly prohibits the use of fingerprinting, some of the largest mobile measurement […]
The friction between when someone sees a product and clicks the “buy” button is decreasing. Shop Pay – Shopify’s accelerated checkout tool – is coming to Google. The news comes a week after Google announced that it’s partnering with Shopify to make it easier for the ecommerce platform’s 1.7 million merchants to get discovered through […]
Google gave its clearest guidance yet regarding how the company will treat shared advertising identifiers once third-party cookies are removed from Chrome. And it’s not good news for ad tech companies that have championed universal ID programs. In March, Google’s director of product management for ads privacy and trust, David Temkin, confirmed in a company […]
Epic has accused Apple of running a monopoly, and this week the trial concluded. Why should we care over in advertising land? While there have been antitrust cases in Europe for some time, now they’re happening on big tech’s home turf. The District of Colombia filed a case against Amazon this week, and of course […]
Are you gearing up for the Summer Olympics? So is NBCUniversal. Comcast-owned NBCU culminated its inaugural SportsTech Accelerator program on Wednesday, investing $50,000 in each of 10 startups and blessing those startups with important broadcast activations just in time for the biggest event in global sports and advertising. Eon Media, a Toronto-based software company that […]
The advertising industry is awash in proposals for third-party cookie alternatives. But Google says it’s sitting out most of them because it doesn’t think they have a future. “We just don’t see some of the solutions being proposed as durable for the long term,” Google Ads VP and GM Jerry Dischler told AdExchanger before the […]
Epic Games has just finished waging its antitrust battle against Apple in the courtroom, but Facebook is taking a more subtle approach against Apple. On Thursday, an academic paper was published by two legal and business scholars funded by Facebook. The paper offers an excoriating take on Apple’s iOS 14 policy update, which the authors […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Julia Smaldone, senior strategist at Media Kitchen. It’s an unfortunate experience with which each of us is all too familiar. You’re binge watching your favorite show, catching up on the news or streaming live sports, and are subject […]
Source: A Complete Introduction to Terry Pratchett’s Discword. “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 James Rosewell, founder and CEO at 51Degrees. Pillars The Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was set up to standardize an open world wide […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Power Player Can Amazon get any bigger? Per CNBC, the planned acquisition of MGM Studios for $8.45 billion marks the company’s boldest move yet into the entertainment industry and is expected to turbocharge its streaming ambitions. The deal gives Amazon access to MGM’s huge […]
Magnite is shaking up its leadership team following the late April approval of its $1.17 billion acquisition of SpotX. On Wednesday, Magnite announced that Tom Kershaw, the company’s chief technology officer (CTO) for the past four years, will leave Magnite to pursue an opportunity outside of ad tech. Kershaw will also step down as chair […]
Crackle Plus touted $2 billion worth of content and the launch of a new ad-supported network called “Chicken Soup for the Soul” during the NewFronts earlier this month. But as more ad dollars flow into connected TV (CTV), marketers are struggling to assess the impact of their spend. Crackle is advancing its measurement capabilities with […]
“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 Omer Adato, director of product at ironSource. App monetization managers have an increasingly complex job. As the market grows, so does the technology to support it, leading to an ever-growing stream […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Thanks to COVID, the old benchmarks no longer apply. Take grocery shopping, said Klarn DePalma, EVP of MNI Targeted Media, a division of Meredith Corporation that helps brands develop and activate digital media strategies. “Online shopping has fundamentally changed the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bouncing Back The virtual Upfronts have concluded; the celebrities have bounced; the guest DJs are spinning on Brooklyn rooftops. And the time has come for advertisers to commit. The broadcast industry wants to know whether flashy presentations by Disney, NBCUniversal, ViacomCBS, WarnerMedia and others […]
“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 Mike Shaughnessy, COO of Kargo. Publishers and ad tech companies have lately been treated to some interesting new information about how Google has managed its programmatic advertising business through the years. […]
This is a living article that will be updated as new partners join. The Unified ID 2.0 initiative reached a meaningful milestone in May 2021 when The Trade Desk turned over the full code base to the IAB Tech Lab. Now that the project is formally open source, here’s a cheat sheet to keep you […]
LiveRamp is expanding into identity resolution with a new product called Portrait Engine. The idea with Portrait Engine is to help marketers build identity graphs using only their own first-party data as the foundation. The solution, unveiled last week at a MMA Global virtual event about the future of online identity, is now in public […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Serious Music Move over, Howard Stern. SiriusXM is trying to attract younger listeners with the launch of a TikTok music channel called (you guessed it) TikTok Radio. The service will broadcast trending music through the SiriusXM app, browsers and connected devices. Sirius – which […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) recently commissioned a new programmatic study to identify where brands are wasting money and make recommendations that will bring more clarity and efficiency to this market. (Read the RFP.) In the most […]
What if you saw TV ads inspired by what you recently shopped for at Walgreens? To bring its shopper data to a new channel – advanced TV – Walgreens Advertising Group (WAG), the retail chain’s ad tech subsidiary, will integrate Walgreens’ first-party identity data set with OpenID, an advertising ID backed by linear broadcast networks […]
Unified ID 2.0 is now open source and not just in name only. On Monday, The Trade Desk committed the full open source code base for Unified ID 2.0 to the PRAM (Partnership for Responsible Addressable Media) Technical Working Group, which is run by the IAB Tech Lab. This transfer is the culmination of a […]
