Fox Announces Plans To Acquire Roku For $22 Billion
It’s long felt like a foregone conclusion that Roku would eventually get gobbled up by a much bigger fish. Now, the day has finally arrived.
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Ad Revenue Stands To Grow By 8.9% This Year – And AI Might Be Why
WPP Media released its annual global midyear forecast on Tuesday, and the report’s central theme should be enough to give pause to anyone who paid attention in history class.
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Prebid’s New President Is Its Former Chairman, Garrett McGrath
McGrath left Prebid in June following five years as board chairman after stepping down as SVP of product management at Magnite. But now, overseeing Prebid will be his full-time job.
TV Manufacturer Telly Touts Programmatic Home Screen Ads
Telly, the startup that gives away free smart TVs in exchange for data and ad exposure, is making its home screen ads available for brands to buy programmatically – and pushing for industry standards to help attract more spend.
AI Is Helping L’Oréal Brainstorm Unique Ways To Reach Male Audiences
L’Oréal adopted creative AI platform Springboards to generate creative ideas that led to a collaborative, ongoing ideation process.
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Google Had Its Day In Court. Now, It’s Amazon’s Turn
Google won’t have to break up its ads business after being declared an online monopolist. Meanwhile, Amazon faces a lawsuit from the FTC alleging that it charged advertisers more than necessary for ecommerce ads.
The FTC’s Amazon Lawsuit Is Ad Tech’s History Of Opacity Repeating Itself
Buy-side experts said it’s another example of a Big Tech platform taking advantage of the lack of transparency built into programmatic ad auctions. And they’re not optimistic change is coming.
How The Fin Tech Clearco Finances Ecommerce Startups (Without Losing Its Shirt)
This week, the Commerce Media Newsletter catches up with a startup from outside the world of data-driven advertising, but with an interesting position when it comes to ecommerce advertising. That’s Clearco, a Canadian fin tech company founded in 2015.
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AdExchanger Talks #500: I’ve Tried Everything But AdTech Therapy
With AI eating everyone’s traffic, publishers could use a sympathetic ear. AdTech Therapy’s Jana Meron and Scott Messer talk through the sell side’s biggest challenges and break down what Google avoiding an ad tech breakup means for media owners.
The Big Story
Two Big Tech moments capped the summer: The FTC sued Amazon over its kinda-sorta second-price auctions, alleging deceptive practices. And Judge Brinkema declared that Google will not have to spin off its ad server.