In one year, programmatic advertising won’t be able to use third-party cookies. But how will the new infrastructure even work? To understand the Privacy Sandbox and its most fleshed-out proposal, TURTLEDOVE, CafeMedia Chief Strategy Officer Paul Bannister – who has spent hundreds of hours over the past year figuring out these proposals – has compiled […]
This article is sponsored by Tubi. Over the last few years, streaming has become a cultural force – changing the way entire segments of the population navigate and consume TV. Seventy-nine percent of people now report using streaming services to watch TV, according to a recent MRI Simmons Cord Evolution Study. Another study by eMarketer […]
After Microsoft determined that using the Verizon Media supply-side platform (SSP) for its display inventory increased CPMs in September, it officially switched – the companies said Thursday – making Verizon Media its primary SSP for MSN and Outlook inventory across nine markets, including the United States. The switch validates the work Verizon Media has done […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Is It Safe To Come Out? With the Trump circus leaving town, what does this mean for brand safety? Seb Joseph of Digiday wrote about how the political divide amongst American consumers has extended to the media channels people consume. “And it’s made the […]
Industry Preview is a special, limited-run audio series, featuring interviews with key leaders in marketing, media and technology who share their predictions and key priorities for 2021. This podcast is sponsored by IBM Watson Advertising. LiveRamp CEO Scott Howe has a unique view of the advertising industry’s crossroads. The company is one of the key tech […]
The Trade Desk is looking for the industry’s stamp of approval for the open source Unified ID 2.0 framework. On Thursday, in response to a recent call from the Partnership for Responsible Addressable Media (PRAM) for input on potential new technologies to replace cookies and other identifiers, The Trade Desk submitted the code for UID […]
“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 Joel Meyer, Chief Architect at OpenX. While there’s no clear cut answer around what the future of audience targeting will look like, practically every proposal is supported by one of two […]
SOCi, a platform that helps national brands manage their marketing locally, closed its $80 million Series D on Thursday with an eye on growth. The round, led by JMI Equity with participation from existing investor Ankona Capital, brings the company’s total funding to just over $137 million since 2014. Afif Khoury, SOCi’s CEO and cofounder, […]
Over half (52%) of marketers say that they use Salesforce or Microsoft as their customer data platform, according to the most recent Advertiser Perceptions report on the CDP market. Clear evidence that the marketing clouds are dominating the CDP category … right? Here are a few grains of salt. For one, when Advertiser Perceptions conducted […]
Mattress startup Purple doesn’t run unskippable video ads. “If someone’s on YouTube and ready to watch a video of their choosing, but you’re forcing them watch 30 seconds of ads first – that’s a brand imposing their will on the viewer,” said Rob Towne, director of performance marketing at Purple Mattress. “As a brand, we choose […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Time To Reassess Marketers were hawkeyed in the lead-up to Inauguration Day on Wednesday, ready to pause, tweak or block ads from appearing against problematic content should things have gone sideways, Digiday reports. While some marketers said they planned to stick to blunt tactics, […]
Industry Preview is a special, limited-run audio series featuring interviews with key leaders in marketing, media and technology who share their predictions and key priorities for 2021. This podcast is sponsored by IBM Watson Advertising. Brands have long been sold the vision that artificial intelligence will one day supercharge their marketing plans, but results have been […]
Despite falling short of earnings-per-share estimates in Q4 2020, Netflix’s stock popped Tuesday after beating on revenue and the news that it’s nearing free cash flow profitability. Netflix also reached a new milestone in 2020 with the addition of 37 million net new subscribers. Netflix now has more than 200 million subs worldwide. But Netflix […]
In December 2020, Get Maine Lobster sold more lobsters in three weeks than it did in the entirety of 2019. And all this year, it’s often selling more lobster than Maine fisherman can catch. The decade-old lobster-by-mail business experienced hockey-stick growth because CEO Mark Murrell took a big risk last March. As millions of Americans […]
“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 Paul Roberts, founder and interim CEO of Kubient. Ads.txt was an ambitious initiative spearheaded by the IAB to clean up the digital ad supply chain and help publishers list the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Stop The Spread Misinformation isn’t a virus – but it can spread like one. Election fraud paranoia, hate speech and online conspiracy theories were all roiling in the overheated atmosphere that contributed to the Jan. 6 siege of the US Capitol. And advertisers don’t want […]
Soon-to-be-president Joe Biden has a full plate, from ramping up COVID-19 vaccine distribution and dealing with the economy to addressing the stark polarization of the Trump years. So, don’t expect much movement on privacy and consumer protection during the first 100 days. But both are top priorities for the incoming administration. And there’s appetite 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 Bryan Wiener, CEO at Profitero. Hardly a material line item a year ago, retail media is the new black – capturing the attention of brand marketers, and getting them to open […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Denis Crushell, CRO at Tubular Labs. With the maturity of social media platforms into audience attention juggernauts, companies like Netflix, ViacomCBS, Warner Media and NBCUniversal (among others) have all invested heavily in social video […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. U & Me And UID 2.0 Welcome to the Unified ID 2.0 cocktail party, SpotX. The video SSP, which is owned by RTL, is the latest company to sign up in support of UID 2.0, the open source industry initiative originally spearheaded by The […]
Ad software provider Viant Technology Inc. filed an S-1 on Friday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of an initial public offering as the company positions itself for future growth. The company anticipates a boom in the growing programmatic advertising market, particularly across linear TV, CTV and mobile. Viant, which was founded in […]
Could addressable ads for live nationally broadcast linear TV be coming soon? Incremental progress in that direction happened Thursday when ViacomCBS and DISH Media each said that they have successfully tested the first addressable campaign within a live national broadcast through an MVPD set-top box. The companies partnered with TV ad tech company Adcuratio to […]
As of Thursday, all campaigns on YouTube are required to enable Ads Data Hub linking in order to be eligible for third-party measurement. Any campaign that doesn’t could experience disruptions to their third-party measurement going forward. In line with Google’s planned timeline for ADH migration and pixel deprecation on YouTube, Google helped a crop of […]
“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. Just under a year ago, Google announced the deprecation of third-party cookies (3PC) in Chrome in early 2022. To replace 3PC, Google pointed to the Privacy […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Oh Snap! As crazy as it might be to imagine President Trump on Snapchat (although has anything about his four years in office made sense?) Donald does indeed have an account – with about 1.9 million subscribers – but not for long. Business Insider […]
TV ad measurement provider iSpot.tv has acquired Ace Metrix, a company that screens and scores video advertising using a survey-based methodology. The deal will help iSpot track both business outcomes and the brand impact of ad creative and media in real-time, including persuasion, likeability, watchability, purchase intent, brand recall and emotional factors. Advertisers can use […]
Google Ad Manager remains on the top perch across almost every category in the latest Advertiser Perceptions report. Though the pandemic transformed the buy side of the advertising business, giving Amazon Publisher Services a huge boost, the sell side saw more of the same. Publishers leaned into the partners they already used and were comfortable […]
With Facebook, Twitter, YouTube (and as of Thursday morning, Snapchat) pulling the plug on outgoing President Trump’s digital platforms – and with Google, Apple and Amazon declining to host the right wing social media app Parler – are we at a watershed in terms of the type of speech social media will allow? And should […]
