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While Backstage does cut out SSPs for the most part, it also resurrects some aspects of Yahoo’s own SSP tech.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ghosts In The Machine The rise of machine-learning-powered ad products from Google and Meta is changing the performance marketer’s job from a hybrid creative tactician, media hound and command pilot to, well, someone who just feeds data, text prompts and raw creative assets […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Out Of Home, Out Of Mind?  Data-driven out-of-home media hasn’t taken off, in part, because most buyers don’t see it as a channel for generating mass reach and conversions. But the fact that people don’t feel bombarded by ads in the world around them […]

Healthy habits are hard to form and even harder to maintain, especially after a lifetime of neglecting the advice of doctors to eat better and exercise more.

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Is Free Social A ZIRP? Social media is free. Well, it’s supposed to be, anyway. That’s the point. All your friends join, it’s free fun, and rather than paying money you get served with ads.  But that could change. On Monday, Android Authority […]

How the blanket brand Rumpl is adding CTV to its digital media plan for results with a broader audience.

Programmatic platforms are still unclear whether supply-path optimization is a way to compete or cooperate with each other.

It may look as if there hasn’t been much progress with alternative currencies – at least not commensurate with the hype. Just because alt currencies didn’t take over the upfronts this year doesn’t mean there hasn’t been movement.

Chris Symmes, director of dressings for Unilever North America, on marketing Hellmann’s and its West Coast counterpart, Best Foods.

The CEOs of the three largest advertising trade orgs – IAB, ANA and 4A’s – agree that we need a federal privacy law. They just don’t agree on exactly how to get there.

Programmatic transparency is achievable in theory, but elusive in practice, says Sherine Ebadi, managing director of forensic investigations and intelligence at risk management services provider Kroll.

CTV is entirely its own thing. Doggedly following display practices can cost you time and money.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Buy, Build Or Borrow? When should brands in-house their media and when should they turn to an agency? Marketing consultant Alex Greifeld posts about this conundrum in her newsletter, No Best Practices. While practically every major brand needs advertising services in some way, […]

Is the programmatic advertising industry in a rut? Maybe just call it a midlife crisis, says JiYoung Kim, president for North America at GroupM Nexus, because there are bright spots – namely, retail media.

American Express doesn’t just issue credit cards; it’s also in the attribution business. Because Amex can see both sides of a transaction, it’s able to collect insights about buying behavior directly from the source.

Before the pandemic, the pace of programmatic had slowed, and people in the ad industry had a grasp of how things worked. But third-party deprecation, regulations and privacy policies, threw online advertising back in turmoil. “That’s the fun part for me,” says Sam Cox.

Digital media and television have been playing by different sets of rules due to the nature of ad delivery and tracking. But these worlds are slowly colliding.

Lenovo is consolidating its media buys to a single ad server to cut costs and run its media more efficiently.

The CDC’s “Wild to Mild” campaign targets pregnant people and parents with the message that flu vaccines can “tame” flu’s symptoms, reducing the severity of an infection.

On Monday, Scope3 made its carbon emissions data open to the public so anyone can understand which players are doing well (or not) with their carbon footprint.

Arielle Garcia, UM’s former chief privacy and responsibility officer, explains why she decided to leave the large agency holding company model – a model that is rife with competing interests and conflicting loyalties, shackled to the industry status quo by “dysfunctional interdependencies.”

US media advertising sales surged 4.4% in Q2 after two weak quarters, beating June expectations of 3.6%. Full-year spend for 2023 is expected to increase by 5.2%, according to a Magna forecast released Monday.

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Snowflake is “becoming infrastructure for businesses developing data-driven marketing applications,” CMO Denise Persson told AdExchanger.

Josef Najm, director of programmatic and partnerships at Reuters, has a message for advertisers: Don’t be afraid of journalism.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. To The Core Nielsen is trimming its workforce – again – and by quite a lot this time, Ad Age reports. On Wednesday, the TV ratings giant announced plans to cut its global personnel by around 9% “in an effort to bring costs […]

Looking for unvarnished, sharp views on transparency, the lack thereof, defining ad quality and the industry’s new obsession with made-for-advertising websites? Then this is the episode for you, with guest Tom Triscari, CEO and founder of programmatic advisory firm Lemonade Projects.

Su Kwon of Publicis Media on where DOOH is today and where it’s going. Kwon will speak at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO conference Sept. 26–7 in New York.

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