TripleLift Chief Privacy Officer Julia Shullman has been digging in to understand ad tech from the beginning. “When the legal or privacy team is brought in at the end of the process, most companies end up in a world of pain,” Shullman said. She joined TripleLift from AppNexus in February, just before the pandemic. Since […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jessica Hogue, general manager of measurement and analytics at Innovid. Even though connected TV (CTV) is growing rapidly, one challenge holding advertisers back from shifting even more dollars to the channel is the ability […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bot-And-Mouse Game The low-hanging fruit of ad fraud is mostly gone. But more sophisticated bad actors are still active. Protected Media identified an in-app bot fraud network, dubbed “Hydra,” that siphoned off an estimated $100 million, Business Insider reports. “It’s the most disciplined operation […]
Relatively speaking, business started to look up for American Airlines, the company said during its Q2 earnings call Thursday. But don’t expect it to last. As the COVID-19 pandemic obliterated air travel in April, American Airlines burned nearly $100 million per day. With demand rebounding slightly in June, cash burn inched up closer to $30 […]
“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 Kevin Ryan, CEO at Motivity Marketing. Surviving without Facebook should be easy for any advertiser to do. From a success measurement perspective, it should be just another interchangeable channel on […]
King Arthur Baking Company is in the rare position of being more relevant than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company, which rebranded from King Arthur Flour this week after 230 years, has been a staple in bread bakers’ pantries for decades. This spring, it gained prominence as bread baking became a popular pastime during […]
Lomit Patel, VP of growth at IMVU, a 3D avatar-based social networking universe, was already planning for an economic downturn in 2017. Growth marketing, he said, is as much about expansion as it is about mitigating risk. “I never only think about the moment, I think 12 to 18 months out,” said Patel, who joined […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Pod Race Podcasting is a relatively small market, closing in on a $1 billion run rate. But the category is on fire right now. The New York Times scooped up Serial Productions for a reported $50 million this week in a “creative and […]
Publicis Groupe, after years of struggling in North America, was on its way back to positive performance at the beginning of Q2. Then COVID-19 hit, and organic growth declined 6.8% for the quarter and 3.3% for the first half of the year. “We were really off to a good 2020,” CEO Arthur Sadoun said on […]
Unilever’s sales and marketing channels are shifting rapidly during the pandemic, and these changes will be a permanent part of the business, executives told investors on the company’s earnings report on Thursday. “Online shopping, especially online grocery shopping, will not revert to pre-COVID levels once social restrictions are no longer in place,” said CEO Alan […]
Once Apple’s IDFA becomes opt-in for consumers, its utility to advertisers will be greatly limited. But what does this new policy mean for Facebook and its powerful, lucrative Audience Network? As one source told senior editor Allison Schiff, targeting on Audience Network is all but dead. But does that mean it’s the end? In this […]
The impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on AT&T and WarnerMedia are far reaching, totaling $2.8 billion in the second quarter alone. Overall, AT&T revenue declined 9% YoY to $45 billion in Q2. CEO John Stankey expects the effects of the coronavirus to become the “business norm well into next year.” AT&T’s WarnerMedia division took the […]
The direct response advertising that’s proven itself to be a resilient mainstay for other platforms during COVID-19 remains elusive for Twitter. But that’s not for a lack of trying. Twitter completed the long-promised rebuild of its ad server in the second quarter and is making progress on accelerating its performance ads road map, CEO Jack […]
White Ops has uncovered a mobile ad fraud operation with unusually sophisticated and patient tactics to embed itself in mobile phones, the company said Thursday. The investigation, dubbed CHARTREUSEBLUR (most of the 29 perpetrating apps used “blur” in the name, and apparently the White Ops threat research team is fond of the liqueur chartreuse), rounded […]
OpenX has turned the growing number of log-level data requests from buyers into a product that simplifies the process, called Bidding Intelligence Data Set (BIDS). “Our intent was to make what used to be a wonky and difficult process into as streamlined, productized and standardized a process as possible, to make our customers’ lives easier,” […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Ben Antier, co-founder and chief product officer at Publica. 2020 is shaking our society to its core. While health and social justice remain priorities for all of us, we are also facing significant challenges […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Viva La Pérsonalization The French government will loosen archaic laws this month that have undercut French broadcasters for years. The biggest change will be to repeal a 1993 law that says all French households must receive the same broadcast stream. So French TV stations […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Mediaocean CEO Bill Wise has strong words for The Trade Desk. This week on AdExchanger Talks, Wise sits for a joint interview alongside Lance Neuhauser, CEO of 4C, which Mediaocean has agreed to acquire for approximately $200 million. […]
This article is sponsored by Criteo. Consider being suddenly plunged into unfamiliar territory. Tom Hanks’ character surveying his island in “Castaway” comes to mind. Whether you’re alone on an island or are a publisher contemplating your next move, it’s essential to identify the elements for survival. Since we don’t yet have the full set of tools to face a future with […]
“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 Ruben Schreurs, CEO at Digital Decisions. In the early 1950s, Malcolm Purcell McLean stood in a massive line of trucks waiting to be offloaded by dock workers. The tedious process […]
Meredith Kopit Levien will assume the role of CEO and president of The New York Times Sept. 8, the company said Wednesday. She will succeed Mark Thompson, who has served as CEO since 2012. Read the release. “I see a big opportunity to expand journalism’s role in the lives of millions more people around the […]
Snap had an all right Q2 but warned that the ongoing pandemic could impact Q3 ad demand. Similar to last quarter, Snap did not provide guidance for Q3, although it did give investors some comfort by sharing its year-over-year revenue growth of 32% through July 19. Snap is “cautiously optimistic” that the trend could sustain […]
The formal Facebook advertising boycott didn’t kick off until the beginning of July – but advertisers in the United States were already starting to pull back in June. Ad spend decreased by 31.6% across North America during the last two weeks of June, according to data released Tuesday by social media metrics company Socialbakers. That means […]
Michael Smith joined NPR as chief marketing officer in April in the midst of COVID-19 and on the cusp of a racial justice revolution. Both are massive trends that all companies are grappling with right now. But media companies are also contending with a third giant trend: the shift in how people consume media as […]
You are reading AdExchanger Politics, our news roundup in which senior editor James Hercher tracks the latest developments in political advertising, augmenting our political marketing commentary and news coverage. Want it by email? Sign up here. The outsize role that mail-in voting will play in this year’s presidential election has placed it in the eye of a storm […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Falling Out Of Favor Cord cutting was already rising before the pandemic, and a lack of new programming and live sports this fall will only accelerate that trend. This week, Netflix said it doesn’t believe production will resume in the United States before 2021, […]
Coca-Cola will overhaul how and how much it spends on marketing coming out of the pandemic, executives told investors on the company’s earnings report on Tuesday. The brand cut back advertising significantly during global quarantines, since even more than other beverage brands Coke sells in places like stadiums, hotels and fast-food restaurants. But CEO James […]
The reigning paradigm for media exchange – serving free content in exchange for relevant advertising – depends on cookies. With the depreciation of the third-party browser cookie, the infrastructure for the open web will lose its cornerstone, opening digital media to a new era. The opportunity to build a new infrastructure for media exchange has […]
Media buyers often have a tough time finding diverse or minority-owned media companies on major supply-side platforms (SSPs), because those publishers often lack the resources or scale to set up programmatic sales. So diverse or minority-owned publishers get left out of the programmatic opportunity. Programmatic services firm Huddled Masses set out to fix that problem […]
