Amazon reported a record Q3 that was driven in part by a 51% increase in advertising revenue and buoyed by a surge in ecommerce due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The online retail giant’s accelerated push into advertising netted $5.4 billion in revenue – up from $3.6 million a year ago – with the company telling […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. I recently had the opportunity to dive deeply into how media owners approach the diversification and the coexistence of business models built on audience, data and […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Risky Business Publishers got pummelled by the pandemic, and advertisers nervous about brand safety (and their overzealous blocklists) were at least partly to blame. With that in mind, the IAB Tech Lab accelerated the rollout of its Content Taxonomy 2.2 this week to help […]
Although Snap and Pinterest say they benefited revenue-wise from the Facebook boycott over the summer, Facebook barely felt a ding. Advertising made up nearly all of Facebook’s revenue in the quarter – $21.2 billion of $21.5 billion overall, a 22% year-over-year increase. And Facebook now has more than 10 million active advertisers across its services – […]
Google printed more money during its Q3 2020, with $46.2 billion in revenue, up 14% YoY. Most of that was from search, which netted $26.3 billion in Q3. YouTube advertising was $5 billion. In total, Google’s Q3 ad revenue was $37 billion. What’s driving that growth? After a deceleration in the second quarter, Q3’s revenue […]
The quest to figure out the future of online identity continues. Between Google’s birdcage and the indie ad tech solutions under development, a lot of smart minds are coming together to try and solve the problem with their own twist. But could these solutions end up creating new privacy challenges? One underreported problem is the […]
Scaling your marketing ops isn’t an easy task when you’ve got 60 million monthly active users and a massive store of historical data going back nearly two decades. Just ask Pandora. “It’s been a really big challenge for us,” said David Hassler, director of software engineering at the music streaming platform. For the past two […]
If Donald Trump owned H1 for programmatic ad spending, Joe Biden is dominating the second half of the year. After spending big on display and native during the first half of 2020, the Trump campaign scaled back precipitously on programmatic starting in August, down to nearly zero in September, and has kept its foot on […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Unified Criteo and The Trade Desk might be competitors by day, but the future of identity, privacy and the open internet calls for collaboration. The day after TTD partnered with LiveRamp on the Unified ID 2.0 initiative, Criteo said that it too will lend […]
Ad verification company DoubleVerify clinched a $350 million investment deal Wednesday that will be used to buy out existing shareholders and help fuel its growth ahead of a reported initial public offering next year. The backing from a new investor group led by Tiger Global Management – which includes the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, […]
Smart TV manufacturer Vizio is reorganizing to bring more television data into its advertising and content business. Inscape, Vizio’s data and automatic content recognition (ACR) subsidiary, has been combined with Vizio Ads and SmartCast, Vizio’s smart TV content platform. The three will now function as a single unit. Prior to the strategic reorg, announced on […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Paul Bannister, co-founder and chief strategy officer at CafeMedia. User privacy is the largest trend shaping the direction of digital advertising. Governments are creating and enforcing new regulations that impact how advertising works, browsers […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Facebook’s Game Plan Facebook’s new video game streaming service, launched this week, is part of a big push to sell more ads. Facebook selling more ads? Who woulda thunk it. The service, which allows games to be played from the cloud and streamed directly to a […]
The Trade Desk is making its first bid for ubiquity for the Unified ID 2.0. Through a partnership with LiveRamp, announced on Tuesday, publishers will be able to access Unified ID 2.0, which is being built by The Trade Desk, through LiveRamp’s Authenticated Traffic Solution (ATS), and buyers will be able to transact using LiveRamp’s […]
TikTok marked its first foray into ecommerce by announcing a global partnership deal with Shopify on Tuesday, a deal that it said will help more than a million merchants reach new audiences and drive sales on the popular video-sharing app. The integration deal with Shopify – the Canada-based ecommerce giant – is intended to help […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Upfront Tax Advertisers might be holding out on their TV commits, but that delay will likely cost them, according to Tim Peterson of Digiday. Because of the pandemic, TV advertisers are clamoring to buy based on a calendar year rather than the traditional upfront calendar, […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Max Knight, VP of analytics services at Amobee. Ask connected TV (CTV) advertisers what supply-path optimization (SPO) means and you’ll hear a hodgepodge of answers that include selecting exchange partners, avoiding resellers and making […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. The slow progress toward a solution to the cookie problem is partly due to “too many cooks in the kitchen,” says Hugo Loriot, a partner at You & Mr Jones-owned data agency fifty-five. “There are too many stakeholders […]
This article is sponsored by Criteo Retail Media. Ecommerce was on the rise long before COVID-19 upended the traditional brick-and-mortar retail experience. Even as shopping restrictions loosen in some parts of the country, many retailers and brands have watched online shopping behaviors continue to accelerate. According to an August report from McKinsey, most consumers […]
When gyms closed during the lockdowns, demand for at-home exercise equipment increased. Nautilus, which owns a portfolio of home gym brands, including Bowflex and Schwinn Fitness, experienced a nearly 94% increase in net sales in Q2. “It was one of our best quarters ever,” said Becky Alseth, VP of marketing and direct at Nautilus. In […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. iHeartProgrammatic IHeartMedia will acquire Voxnest, an audio tech company that provides podcast analytics and programmatic advertising tools for publishers. The deal, Business Insider writes, is in service of iHeartMedia’s ongoing push into podcasting and will help the audio giant fill ad inventory that isn’t being sold […]
The ad industry is partially pinning its hopes on email as legacy identifiers get knocked off one by one. But hashed IDs, including emails and phone numbers, collected elsewhere cannot be used as a replacement for app tracking on iOS 14. That’s true whether or not the hashed identifiers were collected with consent. In its […]
“The Sell Sider” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Michael Lehman, SVP of global supply at TripleLift. Industry analysts project two advertising firsts this year: Political ad spend will reach $7 billion in 2020, and the 14-day period […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. IPG’s Roth To Step Down IPG honcho Michael Roth will step down from his CEO position at the end of the year, to be replaced by current COO Philippe Krakowsky. Roth will become executive chairman of the board. According to The New York Times, Krakowsky […]
And that’s a wrap. Thanks to everyone who attended AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO digital conference this month. Over six days in October, more than 45 speakers took to the virtual stage (ahem, their sofas and kitchen tables) to drop knowledge bombs, including deep dives on the future of identity in addressable advertising. Here’s your rundown. Focus […]
“On TV & Video” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. After this exclusive first look for subscribers, the story by AdExchanger’s Allison Schiff will be published in full on AdExchanger.com later today. Incorporating video more deeply into Flipboard is “a natural extension” of its role as a content […]
This week the big stories are all Google, all the time. First, the Department of Justice uncorked its long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant. As previously speculated by multiple news outlets, the DOJ’s case homes in on Google’s search business. In this episode of The Big Story, the AdExchanger team talks about why the […]
“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 Farrell, senior director of integrated digital strategy at Sidecar. Advertising on Amazon requires you to balance both offensive and defensive tactics. The overall goal is to appear alongside competitors and […]
