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The direct-to-consumer food space is hugely competitive. You’ve got the meal kit delivery guys such as Hello Fresh, Plated and Sun Basket; the online grocery delivery folks, including FreshDirect and Peapod from Stop & Shop; and Grubhub, DoorDash and Uber Eats for people who can’t be bothered with meal prep. And then there’s Hungryroot, a […]

Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Outside of search and social, the adoption of programmatic advertising has been slower than some expected. In many corners, manual processes have stubbornly held on and gummed up the long-heralded automation of the media buy. What’s going on? […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jane Clarke, managing director and CEO at the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM). Wouldn’t it be nice to have one TV platform for advertisers to use that competes with Google and Facebook? While […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tough Cookie Mozilla, operator of the Firefox web browser, will block the IAB’s DigiTrust ID, an anonymized, cookie-based identifier used by ad tech and media companies, Digiday reports. Firefox has single-digit share in the browser market – just 4% – but it’s a blow to […]

Democratic lawmakers took another step on the long march toward federal privacy legislation on Tuesday with a new Senate bill that aims to serve as a framework for a national law. The Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act (COPRA) would limit how consumer data is collected, establish a set of consumer data rights and beef up […]

Self-reg is revving up in the lead-up to the CCPA effective date on Jan. 1. The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) said Monday that it’s finalizing mechanisms that would allow consumers to opt out of the sale of their personal information as required by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The tools aren’t available to use […]

Even with doom-and-gloom headlines, our AdExchanger community has much to be thankful for. In a special Thanksgiving episode of The Big Story, we asked our readers and listeners, “What are you grateful for in ad tech?” As it turns out, many see a world of regulation and cookie pressure from a glass half-full perspective. They […]

Google is officially getting out of the managed services business in the United States, the company said earlier this month. The company shared the news at its Google Marketing Partners summit, an event that caters to agencies, consultants and other service providers. Google has long offered managed services across Google Display & Video 360, Search […]

“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 Andy Littlewood, head of knowledge at MediaCom US. Not many things are linear in 2019, and certainly not when it comes to the complex question of connecting brands with consumers. […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Programmatic Billions Programmatic advertising in the United States will account for about 84% of digital display in 2019, according to eMarketer. (EMarketer’s definition of digital display includes native ads, social network ads and advertising that shows up on pretty much any internet-connected device). “Over […]

The Salesforce Marketing Cloud is crowning a new leader. Longtime Salesforce vet Adam Blitzer will take the CEO reins from Bob Stutz this month. But the business strategy will remain the same: customer data platform (CDP) all the way. Salesforce introduced its CDP service, called “Customer 360,” in June, and Blitzer colored in more detail […]

Regulation and an increased demand for user privacy has slowed the flood of money into programmatic advertising globally. Sixty-nine percent of all dollars spent on digital advertising will be transacted programmatically by 2020, up from 65% in 2019, Zenith predicts. And programmatic spend will surpass $100 billion globally for the first time this year. But […]

The demand-side platform (DSP) category was starting to get pretty boring. Forrester stopped conducting DSP waves last year, due to the minimal differentiation and innovation. And VC investments have all but dried up. But the programmatic ecosystem has geared back up as tech companies eye “the next battleground” of cross-channel video, said Philip Smolin, Amobee’s […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Retail Wags The Dog A couple of seemingly pessimistic updates for Walmart and Target might actually demonstrate how those retailers are forming more mature strategies for taking on ecommerce … which mainly means Amazon. Target+, the store chain’s third-party marketplace – aka, an […]

Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. This week on AdExchanger Talks, digital ad pioneer Richy Glassberg describes the invention of creative ad formats and T&Cs that became the foundation for today’s vibrant programmatic ecosystem. And he describes his new privacy compliance startup, SafeGuard Privacy. […]

Ever fall down the YouTube rabbit hole or mindlessly scroll through the news feed and then suddenly wake up 30 minutes later with no idea where the time went? Of course you have – and so has Tim Armstrong, former CEO of Oath (now Verizon Media) and AOL. The current business model of the internet is […]

Most of the information brands have about influencers is flawed. “There’s no validating evidence from the platforms,” said Casey DePalma McCartney, head of PR, influencer marketing and digital engagement at Unilever, at an ANA conference in New York on Thursday. “The biggest issue is validation of the data.” Since Unilever sparked an industry conversation about […]

Google will allow sites and apps to disable personalized ad serving across its ad products to help partners comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The CCPA goes into effect in less than six weeks. Here’s how it works: Advertisers and publishers will be able to restrict how data is processed through Google Ads, […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chip Schenck, senior vice president of data and programmatic solutions at Meredith Corp. In the ad tech supply chain, supply-side platforms (SSPs) have traditionally served as a proxy for the publisher, helping manage ad […]

“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 Richard Eisert, partner at Davis & Gilbert. It’s been more than a month since the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) draft regulations were released by the state attorney general’s office, and […]

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Disinformation Wars Facebook is under new pressure to secure its ad platform against electoral shenanigans, following Google’s move to restrict targeting options in political ads and Twitter’s outright ban on such ads in October. One option on the table is to prevent advertisers from […]

PayPal raised eyebrows and bank balances in the ecommerce marketing technology space on Wednesday when it announced its $4 billion acquisition of Honey Sciences Corporation. Honey operates a shopping tool people install in browsers and apps that scrapes the web for discounts. The deal, expected to close early next year, is a home run for […]

Programmatic auction dynamics can be arcane, even for the most technical among us. Google has Open Bidding (nee Exchange Bidding), Amazon’s got Transparent Ad Marketplace (TAM) and Prebid predates them both, not to mention a host of other wrappers on the scene. But what do buyers, exchanges and publishers have to say – and, more […]

The single malt scotch category calls to mind images of cigar-puffing captains of industry sitting on expensive leather chairs in exclusive smoke-filled clubs. The Glenlivet is looking to change that perception with a marketing strategy focused on attracting new customers with a progressive attitude, said Sona Bajaria, VP of marketing at French multinational wine and […]

Most agencies are myopic in their approach to Amazon. They might only focus on retail optimization or just concentrate on search. But Amazon also offers an array of opportunities across OTT, audio, social and branding, said Travis Johnson, global CEO of Amazon consultancy Podean. “What Amazon is doing is very broad, [and] nobody is thinking […]

“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. Since 2003, our industry has been on a journey to build the capabilities to deliver addressable TV. That year, the first addressable linear TV ads were delivered […]

“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 Karima Zmerli, chief data sciences officer at Wavemaker. Data’s importance can’t be overstated – it informs virtually every corner in the brand marketing ecosystem, from insights to creativity, media usage […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. All In Context  Integral Ad Science acquired European contextual targeting company ADmantX for an undisclosed amount. Using natural language processing and machine learning, ADmantX identifies the context of an article and whether a piece of content is positive or negative, The Wall Street Journal […]