Digital advertising continues to be a bulwark during the pandemic. Although overall media owner ad revenue in the United States decreased by 7.2% during the first half of the year, digital ad sales grew by 5.7%, according to an updated forecast released by Magna on Wednesday. Magna expects ad budgets to stabilize and recover in […]
YouTube’s quest to siphon TV budgets took another couple of steps Wednesday, when the video platform unveiled “advanced contextual targeting” (ACT), as well as the ability to use third-party data to plan and measure YouTube campaigns in a handful of new countries. ACT now, folks Advanced contextual targeting is a wholesale upgrade of the existing […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, executive vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. Tick tock goes the clock. (Not that TikTok.) The countdown to the end of cookies is on. And with that, third-party data will […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Streaming Down The Rapids In the streaming wars, the mouse will be crowned king. EMarketer anticipates Disney Plus will grab 72.4 million users this year, a full 32.1% of OTT viewers in the United States. By contrast, “only” 18.8 million people have taken a bite of […]
“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 Belinda Smith, marketing and diversity activist. My personal experience with LinkedIn changed overnight on May 26. The murder of George Floyd was the first time I remember seeing a flood […]
Teamwork makes the dream work at the IAB Tech Lab’s Project Rearc. But where are Google and Apple? Sixteen ad tech companies and agencies pledged their support for Rearc on Tuesday, including GroupM, GumGum, Index Exchange, LiveRamp, MediaMath, Neustar, OpenX, Oracle Data Cloud, The Trade Desk and Xandr. The purpose of Project Rearc, which the […]
The pandemic has turned Centro CEO and founder Shawn Riegsecker into a slipper-wearing night owl. When Slack and email goes quiet, Shawn gets busy, staying up until the wee hours. Working from home can do that to you. “There are too many pings throughout the day, too much mental confusion,” he says. “When everybody shuts […]
“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 Seraj Bharwani, Chief Strategy Officer at AcuityAds. Since the advent of One-Click checkout, advertisers have realized that awareness, consideration and purchase can all happen in seconds for consumable products. Thus, the […]
This article is sponsored by Xandr. As OTT continues to gain popularity, the industry is developing a road map of improvements that will need to be completed before advertisers and publishers can truly achieve programmatic success. Just as many SSPs have begun to make changes to support OTT, DSPs must also make substantial investments to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. OMG A ‘Trusted Tech Partnership’ OMG OMG OMG For the first time in all recorded history, people went bats over a “trusted technology partnership.” That’s because the partnership is between Oracle and TikTok owner ByteDance. And maybe that means Oracle will buy TikTok, now that Microsoft […]
How do you target people without third-party cookies or device IDs? One way is to use the weather correlated with aggregated online and offline shopping behavior. IBM Watson Advertising released a tool on Monday that expands its weather targeting capabilities by using artificial intelligence to analyze the relationship between weather data from The Weather Company, […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. How are B2B marketers faring with the discontinuation of live events? Pretty badly, turns out. “Events in 2019 and prior was typically 40% of a typical B2B company’s marketing budget. A very good B2B event is an extremely […]
Epsilon is helping clients prepare for the new world of digital marketing that will follow after the deprecation of third-party cookies in Chrome and IDFA on Apple devices. While Epsilon’s ID graph still uses cookies and mobile ad IDs while they’re available, its CORE ID relies on deterministic matches against transactions and conversions, such as […]
“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 Katie Hutcherson Madding, VP of product at Adjust. With the restrictions on IDFA scheduled for release in early 2021, app developers have a new and business-critical challenge ahead: the user opt-in. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Worm In The Apple Apple is apparently cracking down on companies circumventing ITP’s seven-day expiration – continuing its rich history of quashing ITP workarounds. According to Cory Underwood, the engineer who flagged the issue, third-party tracking/measurement firms including big guns such as Adobe have used a […]
“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 Ron Jacobson, CEO and co-founder at Rockerbox. Every couple of years, the foundations of online advertising are completely ripped apart. This time, it’s the impending death of third-party cookies and […]
Affiliate marketers are largely overlooking what could be one of their best-performing channels: apps. Although most retail marketers say they generate hardly any app installs from their affiliate programs, the reality is quite different, said Mike Jaconi, CEO and co-founder of mobile commerce marketing company Button. App users are more loyal, more likely to make […]
Here’s a little good news from the publishing world for a change: BuzzFeed will restore staff salaries this month and end a program that cut union members’ schedules and pay by 20%. In late March, BuzzFeed was one of the first publishers to announce pandemic-related cost-cutting measures with tiered 5% to 25% salary cuts, followed […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Max Ads Are you ready for some ads on HBO Max? The ad-supported tier is coming in Q2 2021, according to agency execs speaking to Digiday. And it might come even sooner than that, possibly debuting with the NCAA’s March Madness. As per Digiday, HBO Max […]
In light of Apple’s decision to delay enforcement of its opt-in feature in iOS 14, Facebook will keep on collecting the IDFA – for now at least. Facebook had planned to stop gathering the IDFA for iOS 14 devices across its own apps and via third-party apps through the Audience Network. But “given Apple’s delayed implementation […]
The World Wide Web Consortium has 437 business, community, interest and working groups – and soon there might be one more. Around six members of the W3C’s Improving Web Advertising Business Group (IWABG) are pitching the creation of a new group, known for now as the Decentralized Web Interest Group (DWIG), that will help W3C groups […]
The structure of the World Wide Web Consortium can be confusing, since thousands of technologists across hundreds of companies participate in hundreds of groups, all with very specific purposes and remits. There are four broad types of groups that exist within the W3C – interest groups, business groups, community groups and working groups – each of […]
The digital advertising world is changing faster than the seasons. At the Interactive Advertising Bureau, Randall Rothenberg, who held the top spot for 14 years, is stepping into an executive chairman role, while David Cohen, IAB president since March, is taking over. Not only will Cohen become CEO of IAB, he also inherits that same […]
Rishad Tobaccowala has kept busy during the pandemic. Since leaving his post as Publicis Groupe’s chief strategy officer in March, he’s been dabbling in various passion projects and advising CEOs and Fortune 5000 companies, including Publicis. Most recently, in August, he joined the advisory board of ad tech company LoopMe. Tobaccowala also released a book […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Party’s Over The third-party data party is over in Europe – for Oracle, at least. Ronan Shields reports at Adweek that Oracle Data Cloud will stop offering third-party data targeting services in Europe as of Sept. 15. ODC reps began contacting partners to alert them to […]
In February 2021, Facebook will start limiting how many ads a page can run at any given time. Facebook is making the announcement now so that developers have more than enough time to prepare for the change, said Graham Mudd, Facebook’s VP of product marketing for ads. The change will roll out between February and […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Oracle has bought lots of stuff. The company’s run of acquisitions of the past several years (BlueKai, Datalogix, AddThis, Crosswise, Grapeshot, Moat and others) remains one of the wildest ad tech M&A sprees in memory, rivaling AOL under […]
The Interactive Advertising Bureau has a new chief exec. David Cohen, who joined the IAB as president in March (three days before the White House declared COVID-19 a national emergency), is stepping into the top role, the trade org said Wednesday. He’ll also serve as CEO of the IAB Tech Lab, the body responsible 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 Diarmuid Gill, CTO at Criteo. Since web browsers were released over 25 years ago, they have amassed a significant amount of power. They’re sources of both supply and demand, all while […]
