“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chris Shuptrine, vice president of marketing at Adzerk. In May Google announced major 2021 changes to its search ranking algorithm, including the addition of core web vitals, which are new metrics related to page […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. GDP … U The US gross domestic product fell 9.5% in the second quarter – the biggest dip on record, the Commerce Department reported on Thursday. That’s a $1.8 trillion loss due to, what else, the ongoing pandemic. The collapse was “unprecedented in its […]
Despite a healthy second quarter that shrugged off the economic downturn, Facebook CFO Dave Wehner warned investors on Thursday that Apple’s IDFA changes coming in iOS 14 could “prove to be a challenging headwind.” “We’re still trying to understand what these changes will look like and how they impact us and the rest of the […]
The coronavirus pandemic slashed Alphabet’s growth rate from 22% last year down to zero in Q2 2020. Revenues totaled $38.3 billion vs. $38.9 billion the year prior – a 2% year-over-year decline, or 0% once constant currency is taken into account. Like many of its advertising revenue-dependent peers, Google reported steady improvement throughout the quarter. […]
This week is earnings week, and there are many, many investor calls on the calendar. Couldn’t listen to them all? In this episode of The Big Story, the AdExchanger team gives you the quick lowdown on how some of the biggest advertisers and agencies did after a full quarter of COVID-19. We start out with […]
When we last checked in with Comcast in April, the company was warning investors that its Q2 revenue hit would probably be even worse than in the first quarter. While that prediction has borne out, Comcast chief Brian Roberts is optimistic about the cable giant’s ability to roll with the punches as theme parks in […]
Big tech CEOs – collect ’em all. Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos (making his first appearance before Congress) convened virtually on Wednesday for a historic hearing hosted by the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust delving into the market power of online platforms. The hearing (which was ironically livestreamed on Google-owned YouTube) is […]
The Google consent management platform (CMP) Funding Choices will finally integrate with the IAB Europe’s Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF), the collaborative industry solution for passing consent data signals in the supply chain. Google also said Thursday that Funding Choices now includes compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). When traffic is from the […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jon Mansell, vice president of programmatic solutions and partnerships at WarnerMedia. Connected TV (CTV) is at an inflection point, split between two competing measurement methodologies. Depending on the buyer’s vantage point, CTV is either a […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Nixby Samsung is negotiating a deal with Alphabet that would give Google products more prominence on its smartphones, Bloomberg reports. The Google Android operating system is already the default OS for Samsung Galaxy phones, but this deal would put Google’s digital assistant and the […]
The COVID-19 crisis has sent Criteo spinning with a mix of headwinds and tailwinds. Criteo earned $438 million in Q2, a 17% decline from the same period last year, according to its earnings report on Wednesday. By comparison, Criteo’s Q1 2020 revenue had dipped 3% year-over-year. And the company attributed $100 million in lost revenue […]
Holding companies are being bludgeoned by the pandemic, and IPG is no exception. Organic revenue decreased 9.9% in the quarter to $1.85 billion as clients cut back spend in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the company said during its Q2 earnings call Wednesday. IPG suffered declines in every major region, including the United States (-8%), […]
After experiencing a slowdown in Q1, ad spend began to rebound at Spotify in June as some markets exited pandemic lockdowns, the company said Wednesday on its Q2 earnings call. Ad spend in April and May were down 25% before inching up to a 10% decline in June. For the quarter, ad-supported revenue increased 11% […]
Gaming apps are getting better at beating install fraud. Just 3.8% of paid installs are fraudulent among gaming apps, according to research published by AppsFlyer on Tuesday, compared with 32% of non-organic installs for apps in other categories. Finance apps have the highest app install fraud rate at 48%, for example, followed by travel apps […]
Users flocked to apps during the first few months of lockdown. Paid acquisition was a bargain thanks to lower ad demand, while entertainment apps, games, fitness apps and delivery apps saw massive upticks in organic usage. Global downloads for hypercasual games, for example, shot up 103% between December 2019 and March of this year, according […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rob Rasko, founder and CEO at The 614 Group. It’s hard not to look at 2020 as annus horribilis, if I may quote the Queen. We all entered the new year very much aware that our […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Re-Unified The Trade Desk is updating its Unified ID solution, a shared third-party cookie pool for advertisers and ad tech companies, to function in post-cookie advertising, Adweek reports. The project will be open source, so anyone can use the currency, though The Trade Desk’s […]
The United States ad market has proven more resilient than anticipated thanks to record political ad spending in the run-up to the 2020 election. Still, US ad spend will decrease 7% this year to $236 billion due to the impacts of COVID-19, according to Zenith’s global ad spend forecast, released on Monday. Without political ad […]
Partnerize said Tuesday it has purchased the affiliate network Pepperjam for an undisclosed price. Partnerize’s tech uses automation to help clients optimize their relationships with marketer partners, like affiliates, ecommerce ad deals or influencers. Pepperjam has a traditional affiliate network business where publishers link from their page to a product page, and a network 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 Eric Wheeler, CEO at 33Across. We’ve all had to take a huge pause in common everyday functions of life during this coronavirus pandemic: how we live and work. How our […]
Omnicom mitigated the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on its business in part by cutting 6,100 jobs across its network in the second quarter, the company said Tuesday during its earnings call. Omnicom also froze hiring, eliminated salary increases, implemented voluntary pay cuts across its agencies and participated in government subsidy programs in 35 markets. […]
After a tough Q2, McDonald’s sees an opportunity to grow market share and accelerate recovery by bolstering its marketing spend. McDonald’s will add $200 million in incremental marketing spend for the rest of the year across the United States and its top international markets, CEO Chris Kempczinski said during its earnings call Tuesday. The amount […]
OpenAP is enabling attribution within its advanced TV marketplace via an iSpot partnership. OpenAP is a consortium of TV networks – AMC Networks, Fox, NBCUniversal, ViacomCBS, The Weather Channel and Univision – that allow advertisers to buy standardized audiences across all of them. Now, buyers purchasing inventory in the OpenAP Market can do a single, […]
Ad management firm Freestar said Tuesday it has acquired Chocolate’s app mediation platform so it can serve more mobile app publishers. Terms were not disclosed. Freestar is largely a services company that performs tasks such as setting up header bidding and optimizing yield for about 400 desktop and mobile web publishers. But the fast-growing company […]
This article is sponsored by Xandr. Recent growth in streaming video viewership around the world has been stunning, leading many advertisers to question how and where to reallocate or complement linear TV budgets, or extend digital display and video into streaming video. But the landscape is rife with confusing acronyms, layers of opaque content licensing […]
In states where cannabis is legal, local governments designated dispensaries as an essential service when COVID-19 hit. In lockstep with the lockdowns, cannabis ad compliance startup Fyllo saw an almost immediate increase in ad demand as dispensaries clamored to make sure people knew that they were open for business. But cannabis advertising is a challenging […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Help E, Help You Most brands haven’t touched esports advertising, including many advertisers that are early investors in other emerging channels such as DOOH, streaming audio or connected TV. Unlike with those other mediums, advertisers still consider video games and esports ads too risky. […]
The tech investment fund C2 Ventures (C2V), founded by mobile ad tech entrepreneur Chris Cunningham, said Monday that one of its previous investments – Boostr – raised $7 million, at a valuation that triples what it had last year. Boostr founder and CEO Patrick O’Leary did not disclose terms of the deal or the company’s […]
Consent management platform (CMP) vendors are largely overpromising what their solutions can do out of the box, earning them an unflattering spot in Gartner’s most recent Hype Cycle report. The report, released Monday, is Gartner’s first Hype Cycle study focused solely on digital advertising. In Gartner’s view, CMPs are just about to reach the “peak […]
