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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Privacy Tech And Privacy Theater The ad industry, particularly publishers, need programmatic ways to convey signals of trust. There’s the IAB Europe’s Transparency and Consent Framework. But that was ruled illegal by the Belgian data privacy regulator and is being overhauled.  The regulators say […]

A few immutable truths about living in New York City: Almost everyone takes the subway, the weather is volatile, and most people are too busy (or lazy?) to plan what to make for dinner. FreshDirect, a grocery delivery service based in NYC, was inspired by these realities of city life to launch a digital-out-of-home (DOOH) campaign promoting different recipes to commuters depending on the current weather.

Brand advertisers want the chance to engage with consumers in the metaverse. But platforms and publisher reactions are more … “meh.” The media industry should be cleaning up our current digital environments before “mucking up the metaverse,” writes Gavin Dunaway, product marketing lead at The Media Trust.

Meta announced plans on Thursday to create content-based controls for Feed (formerly News Feed) on Facebook and Instagram. The question is, why did it take so long for Meta to start bringing third-party brand suitability to Feed? After all, the News Feed was one of Facebook’s first products, launched during the long-ago year of 2006.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Courting Disaster A California district court judge has scathingly reprimanded Google’s legal team. Google requested to withhold 6,232 of 6,322 documents in a privacy suit brought by Chrome users.  Google “cavalierly” claimed the review was justified but had no justification to support its claim, […]

Brands and their agencies have been declaring their DEI pledges from the rooftops. But how much of that money is actually going to BIPOC (Black, indigenous, people of color) influencers and creators?

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ad-Unsupported Video On Demand Disney confirmed it will launch an ad-supported tier of Disney Plus, following in the footsteps of other studios, including previously ad-free legends like HBO that now sell ads.  But Wall Street isn’t buying the hype. CTV remains unchartered waters. But […]

TV is finally beginning to mine the powerful digital marketing capabilities that big search engines and social networks offer. But there’s a long history of trust issues in digital advertising, writes Jason Fairchild, CEO of tvScientific.

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The Trade Desk recently made waves with the rollout of OpenPath, its direct-to-publisher offering, and its plan to turn off Google Open Bidding, a one-two punch in supply path optimization (SPO). Both of these SPO moves could reshuffle the ad buying ecosystem, making publishers less reliant on SSPs and cutting off a revenue source for Google’s Open Bidding.

Pharma’s digital transformation has accelerated media spending on video across devices. And media buyers in the pharma space have ways to overcome the additional challenge of needing to adhere to numerous regulations, writes Kelly McAloon, Associate Media Director of Programmatic at Good Apple.

On Thursday, iSpot.tv announced its acquisition of Tunity, an app that helps users watch TVs in public spaces, to add out-of-home screens to its TV data set. Out-of-home represents a substantial missing piece from cross-screen TV measurement, but it’s a challenge to measure OOH viewers the same way you measure screens in living rooms.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Blown AMP Publishers are pulling the plug on Google AMP. Vox and BuzzFeed (and other titles within their portfolios) are testing or considering testing their own mobile optimization pages, which they expect to generate at least 20% more revenue than Google AMP pages […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Working Their Retails Off Retail media is in growth-stage limbo. Retailers have flooded the category with no guarantee advertising will pay off.  The latest is the craft store Michaels, which launched a retail media platform on Wednesday in partnership with Criteo. Amazon sets the […]

The Trade Desk’s OpenPath demonstrates supply path optimization (SPO) is moving from concept to reality. But what does it practically mean for publishers or yield teams tasked with driving business KPIs? The question is to whom SPO is important, writes Emry DowningHall, SVP of programmatic revenue and strategy at Unwind Media.

Roku’s revenue for the fourth quarter was up 33% YOY, thanks to streaming and ad sales – but it’s losing money on its signature player devices. It’s also losing money licensing its operating system to manufacturers using it to create Roku TV models. Roku was the top streaming platform across the US, Canada and Mexico in terms of hours streamed – but investors still aren’t impressed.

It’s nearly impossible to say “women’s sexual health” and “brand-safe” in the same sentence. Achieving brand safety on social platforms through algorithmic decisioning has been a focus for platforms, who face pressure from advertiser clients and, increasingly, lawmakers who see algorithms amplifying misinformation. But Facebook’s algorithmic blocking of ad creative is similarly askew, creating “false […]

There are many business questions that publishers need to ask as they try to optimize viewing in an increasingly complex distribution ecosystem. Answering these questions requires transforming the metrics that owned apps and distribution partners provide into equivalized minutes and demographics, writes Joan FitzGerald, founder of Data ImpacX.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. LOL Remember Comscore Rankings? Digital publishing is in a period of self-reflection. Instead of bragging about mass reach, the new norm will be looking at rational numbers to evaluate reach and readership, writes Brian Morrissey, former president and editor-in-chief of Digiday who now writes […]

You can outsource a surprising amount of your operations to Big Tech. But that comes with a range of costs and risks that are important to weigh against the benefits and opportunities, writes Martin Coady, executive director of marketing technology and Tech Studio lead at VMLY&R.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cookie Cutters A coalition of large German advertisers and Axel Springer, the biggest German publisher, are petitioning the EU legislature to stop Google from removing third-party cookies in Chrome, the Financial Times reports.  Chrome already delayed cookie deprecation from Q2 this year to the […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Feed The Hand That Bites You Advertising insiders have become expert witnesses, so to speak, in antitrust battles with Big Tech.  There’s Tom Chavez, who co-founded and sold ad tech startups to Microsoft and Salesforce. He now operates a venture fund that invests in […]

With the looming threat of privacy crackdowns across the globe – and big platform changes coming – contextual advertising is starting to look pretty good again. And not just on the open web – on TV, too. On Wednesday, Precise TV, a kid-safe contextual advertising platform for YouTube, announced a partnership with video data platform […]

The programmatic advertising landscape has never faced more complexity or challenges than it does today. However, at the same time, the opportunity for growth and refinement has never been greater. Here’s how marketers can take advantage of key trends shaping the space in 2022 and beyond, writes Sameer Sondhi, Co-CEO at Verve Group.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Neeva Have I Eeva Paid To Search  The search engine startup Neeva launched its $5 per-month tier on Wednesday, Fast Company reports.  It’s small news – Neeva has some hundreds of thousands of users – but it’s an important marker because at least someone’s […]

People who pull off the road to a gas station are an audience both waiting and on the go. Someone fueling up provides a good opportunity to serve video ads at the pump for candy and soda brands available at the convenience store invariably located a few steps away. But gas stations are also one […]

As opposed to brand safety, which the IAB defines as content that’s “generally considered to be inappropriate for any advertising and unfit for publisher monetization regardless of the advertisement or brand,” brand suitability is a more nuanced affair.

Nielsen’s recent missteps have been Comscore’s opportunity to make hay. At the height of the pandemic, Nielsen identified an unlikely trend that the amount of time American adults spent with media while stuck at home had actually declined. But Comscore’s data told quite a different story, says CEO Bill Livek on this week’s episode. When […]

“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 Rachelle Kuramoto, VP of brand and content at Dragon Army. Smart content marketers are thinking about new ways to use tried-and-true technology as well as ways to integrate new innovations […]

Blocklists are still a big problem for publishers, says Scott Gatz, CEO and founder of LGBTQ publisher Q.Digital. Way back in 2019, Gatz wrote a provocative column for AdExchanger with the headline, “Marketers, Do You Know What’s On Your Block Lists?” Unfortunately, the answer to that question is still … no. “I really wish I […]