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  • Google Aligns With Consultants On Cloud As Marketing Converges With The Enterprise

    Consulting firms like Deloitte and Accenture are forming mutually beneficial business partnerships with Google around selling the Google Cloud platform to enterprise customers. Deloitte and Google expanded their relationship at Google’s Next conference in April. The companies have a goal of driving billions of dollars of business to each other per year, said Tom Galizia, […]

  • The Bullish Case For The Skinny Bundle

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Scott Worthem, senior vice president, strategic partnerships, at Comscore. The skinny bundle – seen by many as the “bright spot” for pay TV – has garnered quite a bit of media attention of late. […]

  • Data Consistency: The Real Challenge For Marketers In A Post-ITP World

    “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 Hugo Loriot, managing director at 55. Are the recently announced Chrome privacy controls a good answer to the latest versions of Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP)? Much has been said […]

  • Gmail's Vast Store Of Purchase Data; AB InBev Brews An In-House Agency

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Check Is In The Mail Google’s Gmail service provides an immense trove of ecommerce data, and even in-store purchase data when customers have a receipt sent to their account. You can check out your own “Purchases” history page. Google doesn’t use information from […]

  • Quantcast Is Starting To Make Money Off Its CMP Footprint

    Quantcast began monetizing its consent management platform (CMP) business for the first time on Thursday with the launch of Choice Premium, a paid version of the publisher tool. Quantcast Choice was released about a year ago with the introduction of the IAB Europe’s CMP registry and the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF), the collaborative industry […]

  • The Walled Gardens Are Eating Open Programmatic – Here’s How They Do It

    Beyond the money they mint with their owned-and-operated inventory, Google, Facebook and Amazon are, each in their own way, bidding into nearly every programmatic auction that takes place across the open internet. Although programmatic is growing year over year, independent ad tech players are increasingly fighting over the remaining crumbs while the walled gardens cut […]

  • Digital Publishing Lessons For Navigating The New TV Landscape

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community.  Today’s column is written by Ben Dixon, CEO at Adslot. The traditional TV ecosystem still attracts immense money in advertising – an estimated $69.2 billion in 2019 – despite the continued proliferation of cord cutters, who shun content that can’t […]

  • Comic: Compliance Through The Years

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

  • Amazon Eyes Sizmek's Ad Server; Publishers Do In-Housing Too

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Sizmek Rumbles Amazon is circling a deal for the Sizmek ad server business, as the ad tech company closes its bankruptcy review, Bloomberg reports. Amazon has built out a strong ad platform business that spans the demand-side and supply-side. Does it need an ad […]

  • Learning Google’s Dizzying Policies: 20 Minutes With Prabhakar Raghavan On His New Job Leading Ads And Commerce

    It’s been almost eight months since Prabhakar Raghavan took the reins of Google’s advertising and commerce business, but it isn’t getting any less complicated. “I have to say, it took me several hour-long sessions before I could grasp all of our data policies,” Raghavan quipped during a candid conversation with four reporters at the Google […]

  • The Big Story Podcast

    The Big Story: Upfronting And Fingerprinting

    After a long winter, the birds and beasts come out of hiding to have their fill of the greenery now flooding the land. That’s right, the upfronts are here, the money is flowing and everyone wants a piece. This week on “The Big Story,” we look at the news coming out of all the advertising […]

  • McDonald’s Venture Into Ad Tech Highlights The Importance Of First-Party Data

    “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 Christopher Hansen, chief operating officer at IgnitionOne. While the McDonald’s acquisition of Dynamic Yield last month took some by surprise, the logic of a large enterprise marketer getting into the […]

  • Ad Sales Prez Rita Ferro Talks Disney’s Digital Evolutions – And Ambitions

    Disney has been at the center of some of the most important recent shakeups in digital media. It officially closed its $71.3 billion deal for 21st Century Fox in March. And late last year, moved from Comcast’s FreeWheel ad server to the Google Ad Manager platform, a vendor switch with huge implications as TV networks […]

  • Doing Math: How The Cheddar Acquisition Could Bring Home The Bacon For Altice

    “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. For the past year, the advanced TV world has been on a bit of an M&A tear. Over the last 12 months, we’ve seen exciting moves from […]

  • WarnerMedia Upfront Touts AT&T Data; PepsiCo Brings It In-House

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. WarnerMedia Touts AT&T Data WarnerMedia had its first upfront under the new AT&T brand. “Now that we’re owned by AT&T, this upfront will be followed by a terrible reception,” quipped Conan O’Brien, kicking off a star-studded presentation. WarnerMedia assured media buyers in attendance that […]

  • Credit Bureau TransUnion Nabs TruSignal

    TransUnion is busily expanding its digital marketing product portfolio. On Wednesday, the credit bureau and consumer data provider acquired marketing tech platform TruSignal. The deal – TransUnion declined to share terms – arrives less than a year after the company hired seasoned ad executive and former MediaLink managing director, Matt Spiegel, as EVP of digital marketing solutions […]

  • NYT, Axios: Filter Out ‘The Crap’ – People Do Still Care About Content

    The digital advertising business ain’t easy – just ask any traditional publisher. But there are bright spots. The New York Times had its best year last year for ad revenue – $709 million – in the roughly 15 years since print writ large really started to suffer, said NYT COO and EVP Meredith Kopit Levien, speaking Tuesday at […]

  • Dotdash Acquires Brides Magazine To Build Out Its Lifestyle Vertical

    Dotdash, a top destination for millennial women, lacked bridal content. So the digital publisher, which rebranded from About.com in 2017, purchased Brides magazine from Condé Nast Wednesday for an undisclosed sum. The 85-year-old magazine will fit well into Dotdash’s verticalized online portfolio, said CEO Neil Vogel. Dotdash’s properties are each devoted to specific categories like […]

  • Jampp Jumps Into Programmatic User Acquisition And Away From Ad Networks

    Mobile growth marketers are going through a few growing pains in the transition from ad networks to programmatic. “There’s a lack of knowledge, a lack of resources, a lack of data and it requires a lot of research to find the right partners,” said Gabriel Sampaio, growth lead for digital channels at Rappi, an on-demand […]

  • Tealium Raises $55M To Do Battle In The ‘Annoyingly Crowded’ CDP Space

    Tealium has raised $55 million in new funding, its sixth round, the company said Wednesday. The round, led by Silver Lake Waterman with participation from ABN AMRO, Bain Capital and a smorgasbord of others, brings its total funding to $160 million since 2012. Most of the cash will go toward growth in order to capitalize […]

  • Group Nine Media Prez On BuzzFeed Merger Rumors, And Why Social Distribution Isn’t Dead

    Digital media companies who bet on social distribution and video have fallen on hard times, but Group Nine Media is angling to be the exception. Group Nine, whose brands include Thrillist, The Dodo, NowThis and Seeker, has developed a holding company model designed to reduce costs by sharing backend resources – while still efficiently reaching […]

  • McDonald's Looks To Emulate Amazon; Is S4 'Too Yesterday'?

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Order Up Dynamic Yield, the personalization technology McDonald’s acquired in March for $300 million, will help the fast-food chain customize its menus to store customers and app users. But the platform will also position McDonald’s to compete with digital giants – namely Amazon – […]

  • AT&T’s Xandr Data Can Now Be Applied On Non O&O Properties

    AT&T’s ad unit Xandr on Tuesday unveiled a publisher network called Community, which lets advertisers use Xandr data on video inventory across WarnerMedia’s O&O properties as well as a selection of outside publishers. The WarnerMedia properties include CNN, TNT, TBS, truTV, B/R Live, Otter Media and Warner Brothers, and the video partner publishers include VICE, […]

  • Google Revamps Ecommerce Ads Pitch With New Formats And Shopping Hub

    Google released a slate of new shopping ad products on Tuesday, upping the ante in commerce marketing as Amazon, Facebook-agram and Adobe ramp up their shopper ad businesses. Google’s new shopping ad formats, unveiled at Google Marketing Live in San Francisco, tie formerly siloed properties within Google, such as YouTube and Maps, into a more […]

  • Facebook’s Clear History Feature May Mess With Its Targeting Options

    Facebook says it’s finally going to start rolling out its long-overdue Clear History feature “in the coming months.” That activation means Facebook will have less access to certain forms of targeting data. On Tuesday, Facebook warned advertisers that the tool, which will eventually give people the ability to see and delete the data that third-party […]

  • Disney Takes Full Ownership Of Hulu

    Hulu now lives in the mouse house. The Walt Disney Company said Tuesday it will gain full operational control of Hulu as part of a “put/call” agreement with Comcast, under which Comcast can require Disney to buy NBCU’s 33% Hulu stake at its fair market value as early as January 2024. The future value of […]

  • Social Media Agency DMM Built A Celebrity DTC Brand For Kate Walsh

    Why should celebrities lend their influence to other brands when they can spin up their own? But for entertainers to launch their own direct-to-consumer products, they need help to understand their social fanbases and turn them into paying customers. For instance, when Kate Walsh – star of “Grey’s Anatomy” spinoff “Private Practice” – relaunched her […]

  • Bringing Data’s Power To The People

    “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 April Brown, vice president of marketing analytics architecture at Origami Logic. Amid a nearly overpowering data deluge and its elusive utility, it is easy to forget the fundamental role of […]

  • Google Ad Chief Prabhakar Raghavan Speaks; TV Nets Advance Targeted Ad Strategies

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Google’s Balancing Act Google’s pivot to privacy will be about “threading a balance,” head of advertising Prabhakar Raghavan told CNET. Google has to weigh user privacy protections with the concerns of the advertising ecosystem and avoid acting anti-competitively. With new controls on data collection […]

  • Podcast: Ad Tech Fan Fic

    What if Microsoft, and not Google, had acquired DoubleClick in 2007? What if Facebook hadn’t given up on its Atlas and LiveRail acquisitions? What if YouTube had stayed independent? In this episode, Beeswax CEO Ari Paparo comes to the studio for a game of “what if,” applying his encyclopedic knowledge of ad tech to a […]