If agencies, media companies and ad tech firms are going to fulfill their renewed promise in recent months to diversify their workforces, they’ve got to reach out to Black students and recent college grads early to explain why a career in advertising is something worth pursuing. With that in mind, Steven Golus, a DoubleClick and […]
Lack of measurement has long deterred brands from investing heavily in podcasts. Apple, which has dominated podcast listening in the United States for years, has a history of obscuring how many people actually heard an ad after downloading a podcast episode through its player. That left brand advertisers to negotiate for CPMs without knowing […]
More likely than not, you’ve never heard of BIGO Live. But it’s one of the largest live streaming apps in APAC with around 400 million users across 150 countries. Launched in Singapore in 2016, BIGO Live now ranks No. 6 globally for downloads, ahead of Disney Plus and Twitch, according to Apptopia data for January […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. If You Can’t Beat ’Em, Join ’Em Those that want to survive the streaming wars are making friends with the competition. Apple is bundling TV Plus content with CBS All Access and Showtime at a discounted price of $9.99 per month, Bloomberg reports. CBS […]
Hallelujah, the attorney general’s implementation regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) have been approved by the Office of Administrative Law (OAL). I’ll let California AG Xavier Becerra tell you about the joyous news himself: The final #CCPA regulations ▪️instruct businesses on how to comply with the CCPA ▪️provide tools to empower consumers to […]
Facebook launched a new feature on Friday that will allow small businesses to promote, host and monetize live online events on its platform – and took aim at Apple in the process. The paid online events feature, which will initially be available in the United States and 19 other countries, enables anyone with a monetizable […]
“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. From the consumer’s point of view, advertising hasn’t evolved. Digital ads mimic print’s design as simply a space on a page. And video ads take […]
Apple has a tendency to ask for forgiveness, not permission. Scratch that. Apple doesn’t apologize. Known for unilateral decision making that can throw entire industry sectors into a tailspin (just ask the mobile ad ecosystem), many of Apple’s recent moves fit a pattern of behavior. Developers have long considered Apple’s App Store policies inscrutable and […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Agency Woes Dentsu is yet another agency group that didn’t have a pretty Q2, as organic revenues declined 17.3% to $166 million. International arm Dentsu Aegis Network dragged down the group as organic revenue declined 20% to $100 million, compared to a 12% drop […]
Vivoom, a Boston-based mobile ad platform focused on user-generated ad campaigns, closed its operations on Wednesday, a victim of the pandemic economy. The company’s website is no longer live. Vivoom CEO and cofounder Katherine Hays relayed news of the shutdown in an email sent to clients and partners yesterday. “Despite our amazing partners, peers, advisors […]
This week saw a big flex from LiveRamp, which a few days ago reported its first profitable quarter since it spun off from Acxiom. All very cool, especially when you consider that this measured success happened during a global pandemic when the rest of the digital advertising community – and, really, the rest of the […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column by Steven Golus, founder at Steven Golus Consulting, is the third in a series that will present the fundamentals of how TV advertising works and how it is changing. In our previous article, we discussed the upfront […]
Ad tech used to generate most of the hype when it came to high-growth ad industry startups. But as the category matures, services firms that help brands navigate the complex world of digital advertising are growing faster. That’s the story in Inc. Magazine’s 2020 revenue survey charting the fastest-growing private companies in America, released […]
This Isn’t Even My Final Form Will Sony acquire anime streaming service Crunchyroll from AT&T and pair it with its existing service Funimation? According to The Information, the big sticking point keeping that dream from happening is the price: AT&T reportedly wants $1.5 billion. While the initial move to offload Crunchyroll began in May, it […]
This article is sponsored by Moat by Oracle Data Cloud. The global pandemic of 2020 has had far-reaching economic effects – with few industries spared from the need for quick adaptation. The television advertising market, for one, has already seen stay-at-home orders contribute to the first increase in traditional television viewership since 2012. Yet upfront […]
When it comes to measuring sales lift and ROI on media campaigns, CPG brands have traditionally been shooting in the dark. But with more real-time data sets available in market, CPGs are embracing granularity when optimizing and measuring spend. Earlier this year, Georgia-Pacific, the paper product manufacturer whose brands include Brawny and Quilted Northern, tapped […]
“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. Ads.txt has been a standard for several years now and has become something that we take for granted. That’s a good thing, as it speaks to […]
Integral Ad Science and Channel Factory, a brand suitability and ad performance platform for YouTube, released a joint product on Wednesday that combines content curation with optimization and measurement for YouTube campaigns. The product, dubbed Channel Science (a portmanteau of their names), is generally available, but only on a manual basis for now. The companies […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Linda Boff is among the most recognized marketing leaders in the world. She has seen a lot in her 16 years at GE, of which she has spent the past five years as chief marketing and communications officer. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Taking On The Giants Kroger is getting into the ecommerce game by launching an online marketplace open to third-party sellers. The grocer is working with ecommerce specialist group Mirakl to offer “tens of thousands of additional goods” outside of its usual grocery sales fare, […]
The official advertising boycott against Facebook may be over, but the same can’t be said for hate speech on the platform. Facebook took down 22.5 million posts in the second quarter alone for violating its policies against hate speech, which is more than double the 9.6 million pieces of hateful content Facebook removed last quarter, […]
The TikTok saga roils on, with Twitter now in the ring with Microsoft as potential acquirers for the viral social media app. While Microsoft’s acquisition of TikTok wouldn’t necessarily be about advertising, it could lend technical support and a trusted reputation for TikTok in the United States. Twitter has more advertising synergies with TikTok, but […]
Ad tech companies are starting to make their voices heard at the W3C as the clock ticks down on third-party cookies in Chrome. At an Aug. 6 meeting of the W3C’s Advisory Board – the closest thing the W3C has to a board of directors – a handful of ad tech companies, agencies and data […]
LiveRamp was one of the few advertising companies to post solid growth in its fiscal Q1, thanks to marketers seeking alternatives for addressable advertising. Revenue for the quarter was $99 million, up 21% year over year, LiveRamp reported Monday. Subscription revenue, which include LiveRamp’s SaaS products such as its Authenticated Traffic Solution (ATS), Safe Haven […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rules Don’t Apply Apple is intercepting site traffic to publishers on Apple News+ and redirecting it to the Apple News app through updates to iOS 14 and MacOS Big Sur. The move not only cannibalizes publishers’ subscription audiences, but puts privacy-conscious Apple in a […]
Meredith introduced its Data Studio Monday, a platform built out of its extensive first-party data set to help brands better understand their consumers both on and off Meredith’s properties. Data Studio is a way for Meredith to diversify its revenue away from advertising and monetize its massive first-party data set. And it is also available […]
Sometimes, it feels like everyone and their mother claims to either be a customer data platform or have CDP-like capabilities, from indie startups to the major marketing cloud providers. But choosing the right provider is only half the battle. Marketers learned their lesson, often the hard way, back during the DMP days that mar tech […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Tracey Scheppach, CEO at Matter More Media. Buckle up. We’re about to get nerdy about tech and addressable TV – which should interest you if you like scale, and progress and profitable new markets. First, advertising […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Brace For Streaming Just as NBCU plans to reorg to accommodate streaming, so too will WarnerMedia. The Information reports that the AT&T-owned entertainment company will soon unveil a “major reorganization” that will result in layoffs and the promotion of Andy Forssell, a streaming exec, […]
