“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 Joshua Koran, head of innovation labs at Zeta Global. Google’s recent blog posts (one by David Temkin and another by Deepti Bhatnagar) created even more confusion regarding the future of […]
“On TV and Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Chris Maccaro, CEO at Beachfront. The market for addressable TV advertising is projected to almost double in the next two years. Over the last several months, the rapid rise in addressable has been driven by increases in the […]
Advertisers and publishers are bracing for upheaval as two major identifiers commonly used for audience-based targeting are set to go away. But are marketers really prepared for the change? Putting aside the China affair, Apple’s IDFA restrictions could be phased in as soon as this week, while third-party cookies in Chrome will be phased out […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. TikTok For Targeting Expect TikTok to start getting more aggressive about ad targeting starting on April 15, Recode reports. For on that very specific date, TikTok’s ads policy is set to change and users will have fewer opt-out options. “You’ll no longer be able […]
The dust is slowly starting to settle after Google’s announcement in early March that it won’t build new ways to track users or support email-based IDs once third-party cookies are phased out in Chrome. But the industry still has heaps of questions. Will publisher-provided identifiers (PPIDs) be used on YouTube? Will buyers and sellers be […]
Add another ad tech IPO to the pile, folks. DoubleVerify filed its S-1 Wednesday (read it) in its bid to IPO. According to the filing, DoubleVerify experienced strong but slowing revenue growth last year. Gross revenue in 2020 was $244 million, a 34% increase from 2019 revenue of $183 million. The company’s 2018 revenue meanwhile […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ionut Ciobotaru, Chief Product Officer at Verve Group. With the loss of IDFA and the resulting limitations on audience targeting, all signs point to a significant hit for app ad revenues. Developers can expect […]
Food52 is taking the lid off its first-party data platform. The hybrid publisher-retailer concluded it needed to improve ad buyers’ access to its data, said Matt Greenberg, SVP of brand partnerships at Food52. Advertisers were asking Food52 about its data, so the demand was already there. And publishers are building first-party data solutions left and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Breaking The Rules Some big tech companies in China are apparently taking that old adage “rules are meant to be broken” to heart. According to the Financial Times, ByteDance and Tencent are testing a tool to bypass Apple’s new privacy rules and continue tracking […]
EDO expanded its Ad EnGage measurement solution Tuesday so it can cover streaming environments and give brands insight into their competitors’ activity in AVOD platforms, traditionally a blind spot for marketers. The data and analytics company, co-founded by actor Edward Norton in 2015, uses data science and machine learning to measure how TV ads drive […]
CMP, meet CTV. On Tuesday, French consent management platform Didomi released an expanded version of its offering for the web and mobile apps that supports consent compliance for connected TV, OTT and smart TVs. Didomi’s TV software development kit is also TCF-compliant, meaning that publishers, advertisers and vendors can share consent strings as part of […]
What’s a gym CMO to do when gyms – which normally promote health – get banned for health reasons? That’s exactly the situation Blink Fitness CMO Michelle Horowitz found herself in during the pandemic. The fitness chain operates 110 gyms across 10 states, all of which had different rules about gym openings. Blink Fitness hustled […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. In It Together? Ad tech companies, publishers and advertisers are hedging their bets in the quest for a new set of audience identifiers. Many plan to support multiple identifiers and targeting methods, including Google’s cohort-based approach. As PubMatic CEO Rajeev Goel tells Digiday’s Seb […]
“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 Jeff Green, CEO at The Trade Desk. There is an index for the equities markets that tracks volatility called the VIX, used by many to gauge fear or stress in the […]
Bucking the consolidation trend, creative ad tech company Polar is spinning out its buy side-focused programmatic offerings into a standalone business. The new entity, called Nova, launched on Monday with Polar CEO Kunal Gupta as its chief exec. Gupta will serve as CEO of both Polar and Nova with Leah Malone as CRO and GM […]
Marketers funnel money into Facebook because Facebook can prove ROI. Put $1 in, get more than $1 out. It’s a simple narrative. But Apple’s iOS 14 changes are chipping away at Facebook’s ability to measure and demonstrate performance. And Facebook is reacting by “making wholesale changes to what kind of data and reporting they will […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Tal Chalozin, CTO and cofounder at Innovid. Connected TV is everywhere. With 83% of all American homes projected to have at least one CTV device by 2023, it’s clear there’s a massive opportunity for connecting with audiences. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. New Deal The fallout from the recent big tech vs. Australia beef is starting to hit closer to home. Reuters reports that US lawmakers are looking to avoid a similar brawl by hashing out a way to make it easier for news organizations to […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. “Inspire creativity and bring joy.” TikTok’s mission statement applies as much to its advertising as it does to its consumer-facing product. This week on AdExchanger Talks, head of ecosystem partnerships Melissa Yang describes why the company decided to […]
A week before ViacomCBS rebranded CBS All Access as Paramount Plus on March 4, George Cheeks, president and CEO of CBS Entertainment Group, noted that NFL football in particular will be fundamental to the platform’s growth. “It drives more subscriptions than any other program, and significant engagement too,” Cheeks said during the company’s Feb. 24 […]
Unified ID 2.0 is about to begin beta testing. Starting next week, advertisers will be able to start transacting on impressions using Unified ID 2.0 identifiers and officially incorporate them into the bid stream. Michelle Hulst, COO of The Trade Desk, shared that update during a virtual event on Thursday hosted by LUMA Partners about […]
“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 Augustin Amann, Chief Product officer at S4M As a part of our industry soul-searching around the future of audience targeting in a post-cookie/IDFA world, the notion of data frugality should […]
Programmatic advertising used to be an afterthought for The Associated Press. AP, the largest and oldest newswire service in the US, makes the majority of its revenue through a subscription fee that news organizations pay for to access vetted content. But there’s no reason why an entity founded in 1846 can’t also optimize its supply […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Team Work Reddit is moving to give advertisers deeper access to its platform – and rake in some dough. The social platform has signed its first-ever enterprise partnership agreement with Omnicom Media Group, a deal that encompasses OMG’s media-buying shops, including Hearts & Science, […]
Online identity resolution solutions. Two years ago, they were all ambition – but today, they’re undergoing tests and people are starting to figure out how they work, where they work … and where they don’t. In other words, the ad industry is finally discussing the practical challenges that these solutions must overcome. The biggest and most […]
Google drew a line in the sand on March 3rd, when it said it wouldn’t build or support cross-site identifiers. But single-site identifiers, specific to an individual publisher, are fair game – and something Google wants to encourage. To that end, Google is dusting off an old/new ID type: the publisher provided identifier (PPID) 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 Zora Senat, VP of Partnerships at Infutor Data Solutions. The world of cookies is evolving. The new cookie-less world will require a different mindset for marketers and advertisers, and the […]
This article is sponsored by the Post-IDFA Alliance including Chartboost, Fyber, InMobi, Liftoff, Singular, Adcolony and Vungle. With the iOS 14.5 update rapidly approaching later this month, many advertisers are preparing for the worst. Who can blame them? At this point, they’ve heard the warnings about unmeasurable ad inventory and slow publisher adoption of the […]
Twitch-exclusive streamer Ben Cassell, aka, Cohhcarnage or Cohh, is a professional gamer. But he’s also a businessman with an estimated net worth of around $5 million and multiple brand partnerships. He’s a brand ambassador for Intel Gaming and has sponsorship deals with Corsair and Discord, his own merchandise and his own “Cohhlition” coffee blend through […]
