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Snapchat’s user base is broader than it often gets credit for, says Patrick Harris, who joined Snap to lead partnerships in May after nearly 12 years in executive roles at Meta.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Amazon Wins Again Last week, ecommerce market research company Marketplace Pulse disclosed that Amazon advertisers can serve ads directly on Facebook and Instagram using Amazon in-app checkout.  This week, The Information reports Amazon has landed a similar partnership with Snapchat. Oh, and Amazon […]

The online gaming platform announced a slate of new features for its Immersive Ads hub at its investor day on Wednesday, including video functionality and contextual and age-based targeting available on a self-serve basis.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Apple’s Bite We already knew that Google shells out a heck of a lot for its default iOS search status – and now we know how much. Google pays Apple a 36% (!) cut of the total revenue it makes from searches conducted on […]

Therabody kept hearing from its core audience of performance athletes that they’d also like to see products their aging parents could use. This customer feedback prompted the company to push into a new area: wellness.

The Missing Link Log another demerit for YouTube transparency. Four buyers say their post-campaign reports for YouTube Select are riddled with broken links, Adweek reports. Google introduced YouTube Select in 2020 as a way for buyers to purchase premium YouTube inventory, including top-performing channels and YouTube TV. YouTube sends buyers post-campaign reports with links they […]

During a quarter when many companies are playing Pin the Blame on the Macroenvironment, DoubleVerify’s Q3 revenue rose 28% to $144 million YOY.

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Long-Tail Retail Walmart Connect and Target Roundel are the two retail media players with the biggest adoption outside of Amazon, according to a recent Digiday survey. But both lag far behind Amazon’s 76% adoption rate. Twenty-four percent of those surveyed used Walmart Connect’s […]

Skip4, a new gaming-focused ad agency led by women who proudly wear the “gamer” label, is leaning in to grow the channel’s share of media budgets.

With last year’s lingering slide in ad spend, PubMatic sees itself playing the long game by innovating in CTV and retail media, leaning into the SPO trend and adopting cookieless tech.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. UGC Meets AI-GC, And It’s Awkward In September, Google announced what it calls a “helpful content update” – aka a search algorithm change to favor sites with superior user experiences.  One part of the update was that Google will target AI-generated content, particularly […]

On Monday, UK programmatic buying company MiQ acquired SaaS compliance platform Grasp. Grasp will continue to operate as a standalone unit.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Location, Location, Location The FTC’s consumer privacy case against Kochava is back on the docket. Last year, the consumer watchdog accused the mobile app analytics platform of selling users’ geolocation data in an open market. However, the presiding judge threw out the FTC’s […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Making An Impression Starting early next year, Google AdSense publishers will see their payouts switch from a per click metric to per impression, the first change to its revenue sharing model in 20 years.  Paying per impression is the industry standard for how […]

As stiffer competition between social media companies shuts out publishers that depend on social traffic, BuzzFeed’s ad revenue drops 35%.

Integral Ad Science (IAS) had a healthy Q3, with revenues increasing 19% YOY to $120.3 million. And shares jumped by about 5% after earnings.

As Omnicom’s $835 million acquisition of commerce specialists Flywheel Digital attests, commerce media is flush. Then, why the most sophisticated and data-rich programmatic marketers are intrigued by custom algorithms.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Whoever Attributes, Wins When people refer to the control that Apple and Google exert over the mobile ecosystem, they usually focus on onerous app store fees. Which, okay, fair enough. But “there’s a looming, more subtle, and much more esoteric form of control […]

TVision and Playground XYZ announced a partnership to measure attention on YouTube’s CTV app and fill in some data blanks for advertisers.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Church And Stock News publishers have had some business model challenges lately. That’s not news to anyone.  But one startup hopes to avoid the news industry’s advertiser drop-off and subscription malaise.  The startup, called Hunterbrook, will commission news stories from journalists, while an […]

Agentio will use its funding to grow its headcount and expand its platform – which is currently only compatible with YouTube – to other media channels, including Twitch, Discord and Snapchat.

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State Farm has spent tens of billions of dollars on TV advertising and brand marketing. But programmatic media buying also has a big role to play in helping nurture leads, says Alyson Griffin, State Farm’s head of marketing.

With its RMN, Rippl, Cardlytics-owned Bridg aims to reduce fragmentation in the RMN space by consolidating listings by retailers that might otherwise be tempted to set up their own RMNs.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Heads Will Roll CEO Kirk McDonald is out at GroupM North America, Insider reports. WPP’s revenue growth tumbled in the US this year, which the company blamed on tech clients curtailing their ad spend. GroupM North America has fared particularly poorly, putting GroupM, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Another Cookie Delay? The third-party cookie might receive another stay of execution – and this time it wouldn’t be Google pushing the deadline. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) reiterated that Google won’t be allowed to kill cookies next year unless the […]

What happens when a Big Tech CEO gets on an earnings call these days? They talk about AI. AI will be Meta’s “biggest investment area” in 2024, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors during the company’s Q3 earnings call.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Help Me, Help Me Amazon announced ad platform upgrades at its annual UnBoxed conference, just ahead of quarterly earnings today. Like Google, Amazon is now a content fortress with its own cloud, which means that when it makes ad tech updates, the result […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Mis-Addressed Google Chrome will reintroduce a way to disable tracking by IP address by giving users a toggle to block IP tracking. If that sounds familiar, it’s because the product works not unlike Apple’s Private Relay – and will have a similar impact on […]