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  • To Thrive In Programmatic's 3rd Epoch, We Must Rethink Partners And The Tech Layer

    “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 Maja Milicevic, co-founder and principal at Sparrow Advisers. If you want to make an ad tech professional laugh, ask them about the resilience of advertising networks. While some may openly joke […]

  • NBCU Quietly Sold Snapchat Stake; Twitter CEO Dorsey Evades Ouster Attempt By Activist Investor

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Gone In A Snap NBCUniversal quietly sold its $500 million stake in Snapchat stock late last year to rebalance its portfolio toward streaming media. The broadcaster invested in Snapchat during its IPO three years ago to expand the network’s digital presence. Since then, NBCU […]

  • Can Quibi Live Up To Its $1.75 Billion Valuation?

    Quibi, the much-hyped short-form mobile video service, has racked up an exorbitant $1.75 billion in funding ahead of its April 6 launch – closing on a second round of $750 million just last Wednesday. With a bet that people will pay $4.99 per month for 10-minute scripted series supported by ads, Quibi is attracting major […]

  • Can LiveRamp Survive The Cookie Apocalypse?

    Although LiveRamp prefers to publicly minimize its reliance on third-party cookies, those little text files are the glue that connects offline data with web browsing. “Put it like this,” said Ari Paparo, CEO and co-founder of Beeswax. “If cookies disappeared tomorrow, LiveRamp would be very affected.” To be fair, that would be true for most […]

  • Facebook’s Chief Creative Officer: Advertising Is Not ‘Tangential’ To The Experience

    Despite the grueling news cycle and string of roiling controversies over the last few years, how Facebook tells its story to marketers hasn’t changed much since its early days, according to Mark D’Arcy, Facebook’s VP of global business marketing and its chief creative officer. “Even before I joined, the story went like this: When you […]

  • It’s Time For B2B Marketers To Get Off The Advanced TV Sidelines

    “On TV and Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Brienna Pinnow, co-founder at Blinc Digital Group. Advanced TV advertising promises marketers better targeting and measurement capabilities, underpinned by rich viewer data. Not only are Americans flocking to the services and devices that deliver […]

  • SXSW Canceled; Grindr Sold For $608.5M

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. SXSW Canceled Add SXSW to the spate of festivals, conferences and gatherings canceled due to COVID-19 fears. SXSW was scheduled to start next Friday, but festival organizers pulled the plug following public pressure and a host of companies – including Netflix and Amazon – […]

  • Publishers Are Wary Of New Tech That Wants To Use Their First-Party Cookies

    “Just make this little tweak to your page.” With the clock ticking on third-party cookies, publishers will soon be the only part of the ad ecosystem with direct relationships with their readers. Naturally, everyone else wants in on that relationship. Buy-side ad tech has been more aggressive asking publishers to share user data, even as […]

  • What Should Replace The Third-Party Cookie? It Depends On Who You Ask.

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Premesh Purayil, chief technology officer at Ranker. At the IAB’s recent annual leadership meeting, it seemed that advertisers and publishers were fond of saying, “first-party data is the new currency,” while all the vendors […]

  • A Marketer's Wish List For Supply-Path Transparency

    “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 Ben Epstein, engagement manager at Jounce Media. The near-universal deployment of publisher ads.txt and app-ads.txt files and the equally wide deployment of exchange sellers.json files brings a much needed dose […]

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    A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

  • Coronavirus Dents Travel Advertising; Olympics In The Balance

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hang On St. Christopher Google’s travel advertising business (along with the travel marketing vertical in general) could be severely disrupted by the impacts of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Spending on travel search ads may drop by $1 billion in Q1 […]

  • What Happens To The Bloomberg Ad Money Now?

    Michael Bloomberg’s Democratic primary campaign is finished, but is the Bloomberg media machine exiting the race as well? There is only speculation about how and how much Bloomberg will invest to back Joe Biden, who he endorsed when he dropped out, or on liberal advocacy campaigns. He seems intent on remaining a force in the […]

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    The Big Story: Coronavirus Fears And SSP/Agency Handshakes

    The new coronavirus is wreaking havoc worldwide as uncertainty reigns, and marketers aren’t immune. This week on The Big Story, the team diagnoses the effect of COVID-19 on 2020 ad budgets, work productivity and the industry conference circuit. Advertisers won’t necessarily spend less, but they will probably start shifting budget to channels where they know […]

  • GroupM Launches Finecast Addressable TV Group In North America

    TV is becoming more addressable around the world. GroupM is getting in on the trend with the expansion of its addressable TV business Finecast to Canada on Thursday as its first North American market. Finecast was launched in the fall of 2017 in the United Kingdom to help buyers and sellers target audiences on linear […]

  • Podcast: Accenture Interactive’s Big, Fat, Unified P&L

    Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts.Accenture Interactive has grown massively in the 11 years since its founding. Accenture Interactive has grown massively in the 11 years since its founding. The agency division of consulting giant, Accenture has annual revenue of $10 billion and is […]

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    How The Humble Corporate Website Can Fuel Audience-Centric Performance Marketing

    “Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Sachin Puri, vice president of growth marketing at McAfee. Digital media is quickly evolving, but many brand websites are still catching up with the pace of innovations in outbound marketing. Sites are still overloaded with tags, aren’t […]

  • Quibi Raises $750M; Snap's Audience Network Enters Beta

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Big Checks For Quibi  Quibi, the short-form mobile video app set to launch in April, closed a $750 million round of financing, bringing its total funding to $1.75 billion. The company raised $1 billion in its first funding round in 2018 and planned to […]

  • Marketers Struggle To Relearn The Former DoubleClick ID

    Third-party cookies are going away and Google is restricting ID sharing. What does this mean for Google’s suite of advertising IDs and the advertisers and publishers that rely on them for monetization? It’s one of the most consequential questions for the world of online advertising, but nobody has a clear answer. Google operates two different […]

  • As DSPs Go Under, Exchanges Get Tough About Getting Paid

    The list of failed DSPs is getting long: Sizmek. IgnitionOne. Eyeview. Audience Science. Each DSP left unpaid invoices to suppliers they went bankrupt or closed, forcing exchanges to eat the losses or claw back money it already gave to publishers. Now exchanges are getting tough about getting paid. Nearly one year post-Sizmek, BidSwitch, TripleLift, PubMatic, OpenX, […]

  • Ad Tech Bristles At The CNIL’s Consent Recommendations – But ePrivacy Could Change Everything

    It’s nearly le denouement pour le cookie consentement en France. The Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (the CNIL), France’s data protection authority, is on the cusp of finalizing its updated consent guidelines for cookies and other trackers – and the stakes are high. “The question is not whether consent is applicable – of course […]

  • Newsweek: ‘The Cannabis Business Is Here To Stay, And We Want To Help It Grow’

    Shaun Hekking, SVP of national sales at Newsweek, has blunt words for publishers that don’t accept cannabis advertising: “There’s no reason we can see not to work with cannabis advertisers.” “We’ve been covering cannabis editorially since before Woodstock and writing about the business side since the early 2000s,” said Hekking, who joined Newsweek early last […]

  • Quarantined: How The Coronavirus Shutdowns Impact Marketers

    The coronavirus outbreak has caused marketers to rethink their 2020 budgets, delay campaign launches, sit out conferences and experiment with remote work. Despite this disruption, we’re still largely in wait-and-see mode in terms of how the virus will impact operations in the United States. Here’s the quick lowdown on how COVID-19’s warpath through the world […]

  • Coronavirus Takes Toll On Ad Industry; Gattinella Resigns As Double Verify CEO

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. 2020 Is Canceled The coronavirus news hits keep on coming. Google canceled the “physical” aspects of its annual I/O developers conference, scheduled for May 12-14, 9to5Google reports. Facebook and Twitter pulled out of SXSW, as did large media and brand partners Mashable and Intel. […]

  • OAREX: Ad Payments Have Stabilized, But Payment Gap Remains An Issue

    Digital media payment issues have settled down from a year ago, when Sizmek went bankrupt with tens of millions of dollars owed to ad tech companies and publishers, but there are still troubling trends in the market, according to the OAREX Q4 2019 online advertising payments report released on Tuesday. The data for the report […]

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    AdExchanger Politics: Super Tuesday Ad Strategies

    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. Super Tuesday is the presidential primary’s most important day, with 14 states, a third of delegates up for grabs, and a […]

  • As LinkedIn Allows Richer Use Of Audience Data, Madison Logic Taps In

    The B2B advertising company Madison Logic launched an account-based marketing (ABM) integration with LinkedIn’s Marketing Analytics API on Tuesday. The product connects LinkedIn data with campaign delivery and performance for a better understanding of B2B advertising at an account level. ABM is the B2B industry approach that focuses on specific job titles or account holders […]

  • How Oregon Public Broadcasting Takes A Members-First Approach To Notifications

    As ad-supported local news struggles, member-supported Oregon Public Broadcasting is expanding. In addition to radio, it now produces TV and digital content to keep an audience of 1.5 million people informed. As part of its digital investment, it doubled its newsroom in the past five years. Posting went from supporting radio features, with a 9am-5pm […]

  • To Thrive In 2022, Media Buyers Must Reassess Their Marketing Strategies Now

    “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 Jeff Turner, head of ad product for RED at The Washington Post. For the digital advertising industry, 2019 was a year publishers, media buyers and ad tech vendors spent predicting how […]

  • FTC To Scrutinize Big Tech’s Smaller Acquisitions Of Yore; AT&T Adds New Set-Top TV Service

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Let’s Review Big tech companies are going under the microscope for some of their smaller, long-ago acquisitions. The FTC said it would conduct a review of deals that have been approved, particularly targeting low-cap deals that provided vast power in the market. And last […]