P&G isn’t the only western company that was deeply involved in the development of the China Advertising ID (CAID). The China-based arms of Nielsen, Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers are all listed as “drafting organizations” behind the CAID standard in the original technical specs. CAID is an IDFA workaround that was devised for the specific purpose of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Please, Mr. President Google is asking President Biden to take action as European regulators pursue more robust regulation of the industry. (Where did we leave our tiny violin?) According to CNBC, Karan Bhatia, Google’s VP of government affairs and policy, said in a blog […]
How to manage the tradeoff between personalized advertising and privacy is a familiar debate. Whether personalized advertising – or advertising, full stop – works is a less common direction. But in a debate organized by Facebook (surprise!) between IAB CEO Randall Rothenberg and “Subprime Attention Crisis” author Tim Hwang, Hwang challenged the widely accepted notion […]
Late last year, with the end of the pandemic hopefully in sight, Luma was beginning to see investor confidence return. If anything, that cautious optimism was understated, as this Spring, Luma saw the best quarter in deals that it had ever seen. This week on The Big Story, we welcome back Conor McKenna, Luma director […]
“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 Carolina Abenante, co-founder of NYIAX. The advertising industry is undergoing a paradigm shift, moving toward a model where audience data is currency. But with Google ending support of third-party cookies […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Sara Badler, SVP of advertising and partnerships at Dotdash. Fries or crisps? Elevator or lift? Even among English speakers there are a host of regional differences for the global traveler to wrap their his or […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Raising CAID Procter & Gamble took part in early tests by Chinese trade groups and tech companies to bypass Apple’s upcoming privacy changes, according to The Wall Street Journal. P&G experimented with the so-called CAID (China Advertising ID), which uses unique device attributes to […]
Allison Schiff contributed Twitter is expanding its relationship with Nielsen to boost its ability to plan and execute video strategies. The company will integrate Nielsen Media Impact (NMI) and Nielsen Ad Intel — solutions that help advertisers to measure and plan campaigns across a variety of media platforms — into the Twitter Amplify video ad […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Our guest this week has spent his entire career in ad tech. Since 1997, Manny Puentes has worked at a series of companies ranging from ad servers to publisher networks to programmatic platforms. In 2016, he founded Rebel […]
On Thursday, Publicis-owned Epsilon became the latest company to support Unified ID 2.0. UID 2.0 is an open-source industry initiative, originated by The Trade Desk, that aims to develop an alternative to third-party cookies by replacing them with hashed or encrypted email addresses. Specifically, Publicis clients can activate Epsilon’s proprietary CORE ID (which stands for […]
“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 Yigael Chetrit, global CTO at SRDS. Privacy regulations are moving quickly, and publishers need to make decisions about the kind of data to collect and how to monetize it. But […]
It’s no surprise that premium video — commercially produced, long-form episodic video — commands much higher premiums than standard digital video, but recent research from Standard Media Index (SMI) showed just how much. SMI found that average premium video CPMs were nearly two times higher at 192% of the total digital video market, and accounted […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Violation Rate To demonstrate that it can be effective at finding and removing rule-breaking videos, YouTube will start disclosing a new metric called the Violative View Rate. Essentially, it’s the percentage of total views going to videos that run afoul of YouTube’s guidelines before […]
Internet advertising made a huge rebound in Q4, growing 29% YoY to $45.6 billion, according to the 2020 IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report. “Q4 was the best quarter we have ever seen in 20 years,” said David Cohen, president of the IAB. Overall online advertising in 2020 grew 12% YoY to $140 billion. “The fact […]
Consider 2021 the age of consent. The end of third-party cookies is pushing nearly everyone in the supply chain to try to figure out how to get consumers to opt in – including a growing number of ad tech companies that are attempting to create their own consumer-facing consent mechanisms. It’s a new and largely […]
Marketers can build better customer experiences if they can find their customers as they pop up in different parts of their buying journey – visiting the website, buying a product in an Instagram story, viewing an ad or seeking customer support. To enable this visibility, LiveRamp built a native connection into Google Cloud Platform. Previously, […]
Local news publishers aren’t waiting around for ad tech vendors to solve their third-party cookie problems for them. In late March, the Local Media Consortium (LMC) launched NewsPassID, a single sign-on solution and ad network, designed to help the 5,000 local publishers represented by the LMC to aggregate their first-party data and clean up their […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Grabbing Share Watch out, Google and Facebook – Amazon is catching up. According to eMarketer, Amazon’s share of the digital ad market in the United States grew to 10.3% last year, up from 7.8% in 2019, The Wall Street Journal reports. It’s expected to make […]
“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 Alex Bauer, head of product marketing at Branch. Less than a month ago, on March 15, the Financial Times broke a remarkable story. A state-backed consortium known as the China […]
One reason performance advertisers love search advertising is because they can easily see the return on their ad investment. Based on that insight, Jason Fairchild co-founded tvScientific and raised $1.5 million in seed funding from prominent names in ad tech and search advertising. The platform aims to deterministically link someone seeing a commercial to that […]
“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 Luke Taylor, COO at TrafficGuard. The purpose of advertising is to influence behavior. But in Google’s search environment, it’s worth considering: Are your ads influencing behavior, or mainly serving as […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What Happened, Adobe? Adobe once avidly pursued digital advertising, but its passion has cooled. Insider’s Lauren Johnson spoke with five former employees to understand what happened. A big part of the reason was an unwillingness to do anything that isn’t self-serve, culminating in the […]
We might be running out of birds. There are now two different post third-party cookie proposals dubbed SWAN, in addition to COWBIRD, Dovekey, FLEDGE, FLoC, Gnatcatcher, MURRE, PARAKEET, PARRROT, PELICAN, SPARROW, SPURFOWL, TEETAR, TERN and TURTLEDOVE. (Yes, these are all real bird types). One SWAN exists within the Chrome Privacy Sandbox and the second, released […]
Seven ad tech companies made transactions valued at over $1 billion in the first quarter of 2021 – double the amount that’s happened in the past few years combined. “We’ve got a perfect storm here of different forces lining up, which created such a strong quarter,” said Conor McKenna, LUMA Partners director. The ad tech […]
Criteo has started testing the single sign-on (SSO) solution – called OpenPass – that will serve as the consumer-facing component of Unified ID 2.0, the open source industry initiative that aims to use email as an alternative to third-party cookies. In November, Criteo was one of the first companies to join Unified ID 2.0, which is […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by David George, CEO of Pixability. While advertisers now recognize the importance of CTV for reaching an enormous audience – 2020’s dramatic acceleration led to consumer user numbers exceeding 200 million – they are still […]
“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’s new IDFA policy will have a profound impact, including killing the way in which most mobile app companies A/B test creative […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. CTV Winning Google Ad Manager’s second annual Advanced TV Inventory Report is out, and surprise! Connected TV was a big winner during the pandemic last year. The report analyzed 35 global advanced TV partners. In Q2 2020 — at the height of the downturn […]
And so it begins. Apple started rejecting app updates on Thursday that conflict with its App Tracking Tracking Transparency (ATT) framework. ATT prohibits user tracking without explicit consent and bans developers from using fingerprinting to try and identify a device or user. The news was first reported by independent analyst John Koetsier in Forbes. Specifically, […]
