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PubMatic reported meager YOY revenue growth in Q2, up just a smidge to $63.3 million from $63 million in Q2 of last year.

We spoke with Justin Osofsky, Meta’s head of online sales, operations and partnerships to get a pulse on the state of Meta’s business, including automation, AI and Threads, of course.

BuzzFeed is “laser focused” on using AI-generated content to drive audiences to its owned-and-operated platforms and away from social media, CEO Jonah Peretti told investors.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pubs Crawl Publishers are more selective about ad tech vendors nowadays after suffering through incidents involving sequential liability, Digiday reports. Publishers are more discerning about ad tech but don’t expect much to change following the MediaMath bankruptcy, like the Sizmek bankruptcy before that […]

Less than two weeks after finally ramping up its adoption of SKAdNetwork 4, Meta is rolling back to version 3 following a bug in Apple’s system that messed with conversion values.

European regulators are losing their patience with companies that attempt to use legitimate interest as their legal basis for processing personal data. Meta is learning this the hard way.

Google’s protestations about TrueView’s media quality aside, two questions remain: Why is any of this happening, and why is change unlikely in the short term?

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Slow Slide WPP reported lackluster Q2 results during its earnings call on Friday.  The agency holding company saw a “shortfall” in the US, accounting for about 37% of WPP’s biz, which “took us a little bit by surprise,” CEO Mark Read told […]

Integral Ad Science (IAS) beat its earnings and revenue estimates for the second quarter despite belt-tightening among advertisers and fallout from the recent TrueView scandal.

Why DoubleVerify is acquiring Scibids. Plus: How the ascent of YouTube TV has led CTV advertisers to land premium inventory for a song.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. CMax, LOL Criteo reported earnings on Wednesday. It wasn’t a blockbuster – gross revenue ticked down from $495 million in Q2 2022 to $469 million this year – but Criteo clawed back to about even in terms of profitability after dipping into the […]

Brand and performance marketers don’t always speak the same language. But for language-learning app Duolingo, they are complementary.

Premium YouTube TV inventory, including tentpole live sports, is finding its way down to general DV360 CTV auction campaigns, and is clearing at major CPM discounts compared to the direct deal rates.

YouTube is very much in the hot seat. However, let’s zoom out and consider all of the different media companies and platforms that are doling out “grab bags” of video inventory.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Europe, You’re Down Meta may ask for specific consent to use data for advertising purposes in the EU, The Wall Street Journal reports.  After GDPR became law, Facebook began requiring European users to allow the platform to use data for ad purposes by […]

These strikes will impact content generation for the foreseeable future. Media buyers need to think about how that will impact their jobs.

Measurement and analytics company DoubleVerify touted its decision to acquire Paris-based AI startup Scibids for $125 million during its Q2 earnings call on Monday.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. From The Ashes? When MediaMath’s defunct assets go up for auction in Delaware bankruptcy court next week, founder and one-time CEO Joe Zawadzki may be in the mix. Zawadzki wants to buy and revive the demand-side platform he founded in 2007 … and […]

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Folgers used TikTok’s click-to-buy video overlays and Gopuff’s quick delivery platform to deliver Folgers products to Gen Z shoppers.

There was so much growth across nearly every area of Meta’s business (with the exception of Reality Labs, its R&D division for the metaverse, which lost $3.7 billion in Q2) that Q2 was actually rather boring. And so, instead of ratting off more stats, here are five takeaways from Meta’s Q2 call in case you missed it.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Snappy Comeback In 2021, when Apple announced ATT, Snapchat Co-Founder and CEO Evan Spiegel said he was “happy to see [Apple] making the right decision for their customers.” Fast-forward a couple of years, and Spiegel is less glowing about ATT, which severely […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. On The Spot Spotify added 10 million subscribers since last year, bringing its total to 220 million paid users. Most streaming TV services would hire a troupe of trumpeters to announce that news. For Spotify, though, it isn’t enough to assure investors of […]

As cookies, pixels and SDK data become increasingly unreliable, almost all of the large ad platforms are pushing server-side implementations to get conversion information from advertisers.

For Joe & The Juice, the best marketing blend Includes AI, as it learned by partnering with Pixis for mobile app install campaigns.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Follow Your Intuition, I Guess Intuit, which owns Mailchimp and accounting software like TurboTax and QuickBooks, is launching an ad network called SMB MediaLabs, Adweek reports. As the name implies, Intuit’s media business is a “small business-focused media network.” But it’s focused on […]

Political advertising restrictions are among the challenges that direct marketing agency MissionWired helps its progressive nonprofits and political campaign clients tackle.

Discrepancies across the various attempts to quantify the issue with YouTube TrueView have just raised more questions about measurement failures.

Playground XYZ announced today that its Attention Intelligence Platform is now compatible with YouTube ads.

We dive into the muck that is YouTube’s partner network. Plus, how that lack of transparency relates to its burgeoning YouTube TV supply.