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On Tuesday, Barometer announced $2.25 million in its latest fundraising round, bringing the company’s total to roughly $4.2 million since 2019.

We’re close to the onset of true cross-media measurement – with the understanding that all video impressions are not created equal. That seems obvious, but one key player in the ecosystem, YouTube, disagrees.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Currency Contest Can the TV industry’s currency debate get any hotter? (For something so in the weeds, that is.) Guess so. Nielsen has formally repudiated the broadcaster-backed joint industry committee’s (JIC) video standards agreement. In a letter to OpenAP, the data vendor behind […]

Hope you had a peaceful Sunday. If you’re a Facebook advertiser, though, that may not have been the case. A bug or error in Meta’s ad system caused campaigns to overspend by more than double their daily spending cap during the wee hours of the morning on Sunday, according to numerous complaints on Twitter, LinkedIn […]

While a number of companies have already made a name for themselves in the data clean room category, it has become clear that no single solution, or even a single data clean room model, will emerge as the industry standard.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Black And Blue Twitter has removed blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts as promised, as in accounts that don’t subscribe to the new $8-per-month Twitter Blue program. The rollout has, of course, been a botched job.  Some celeb accounts, including Lebron James, Stephen […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Europe? More Like ‘You’re Out’ In 2018, a handful of American ad tech startups abandoned the EU when their services became (more likely than not) verboten. Drawbridge, for instance, left Europe when it became clear that regulators had cross-device graphs in their crosshairs. […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Missing Link Instagram now lets users link to multiple external sites from their bio page.  Sounds minor, but it’s a concession creators have begged for from virtually every social platform for years. In fact, TechCrunch reports, Instagram is only loosening the policy […]

So, the Linda Yaccarino/Elon Musk interview happened at the Possible conference in Miami. We went so you didn’t have to.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. We don’t like to boast, but we did a thing: AdExchanger just won regional gold, silver and bronze awards for our editorial coverage at the 2023 Azbee Awards. Check it out, and sincere thanks to our readers! Still Searching Googlers were in “panic” […]

Mail Metro Media partnered with Firework to integrate a new vertical video player across dmg’s sites that features interstitial ads and TikTok-esque clickable overlays.

Disintermediation is in the air. If The Trade Desk’s OpenPath cuts out SSPs (while claiming not to), Magnite’s ClearLine cuts out DSPs (while claiming not to).

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Aim At The Heart, Hit The Stomach When New York added digital screens to subway cars, Seamless and other food delivery services were natural advertisers, often showcasing food-related content or recipes. But those were actual recipes. The new digital out-of-home subway trend is […]

2022 was a record-breaking year for US digital advertising revenues, which cracked the $200 billion mark for the first time, according to the IAB/PwC Internet Advertising Revenue Report released Wednesday.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Better Safe Than Sorry  Brands are nervous about misinformation, especially as generative AI tools make it relatively easy to create convincing fake images, audio files and videos. General Mills is teaming up with verification company Zefr to measure misinformation around its social media […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Go Big Or Go Home Apple, Amazon and Google (via YouTube) are now presumptive leaders for major sports broadcast deals.  Apple snapped up Major League Soccer and Major League Baseball rights last year, while Amazon and Google had National Football League coups.  These […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. General Admission Dollar General is one of many retail chains to launch an ad platform business. And the Dollar General Media Network (DGMN), as it’s known, just added a new partner last week: Meta. The Meta ad platform can now attribute sales to […]

Given industrywide pushback, the IAB Tech Lab has amended its previous update to its guidelines for in-stream and out-stream video.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What Could Possible Go Wrong? Elon Musk was a splashy late get for the POSSIBLE marketing conference in Miami next week.   He’s a major draw, but he comes with risks, as some brand leaders are concerned about Musk’s participation, Semafor reports.  In previous […]

Publishers are fed up with brand safety and verification vendors using crawlers to scrape their sites for contextual signals, then using those signals to sell contextual ad products.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rules Of The Game In September 2021, Google Ads switched from last-click attribution as its default measurement mode to “data-driven attribution.” The latter is Google’s term for modeled attribution without preset rules, like that a brand’s first ad exposure or the last click […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Why Social Is Unaffiliated TikTok is beginning to cut US creators in on sales – aka affiliate commissions – through its on-platform shopping service, Shops.  The product is being tested by pilot brand advertisers and creators, Insider reports. Posts with the affiliate tag […]

Health data and race are sensitive topics on their own. Put them together, and it’s easy to see why people struggle to thoughtfully tailor their marketing efforts to different audiences. Still, many health care marketers are opting in to race-based targeting to stay relevant and reach underserved populations.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Still Searching TikTok and Instagram want search marketing budgets. But even those megaplatforms face a long road before they can catch up to true search players Google and Amazon, Ad Age reports. Search advertising typically identifies people who are about ready to buy. […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. SP-Oh, It’s On Call it supply-path optimization, transparency or premium publisher marketplaces. Whichever you choose, Digiday writes, it “amounts to disintermediation.” In recent years, DSPs have leapfrogged SSPs to establish direct connections with media companies. The marketers are interested in media, after all, […]

Mondelēz-owned Chips Ahoy! wants to be Gen Z’s cookie of choice, not a nostalgic snack pick. To this end, the brand is refining its targeting strategy to focus on behaviors, not demographics.

ATT’s impact has been especially hard on game app developers, with the average cost per install on iOS up 88% from Q1 2021, the last quarter before the rollout of ATT. To adapt, app marketers have been using probabilistic data and methods to reach opted-out users.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Opt Out Or Copped Out? Facebook and Instagram users in the EU will be able to opt out of personalized advertising, except for broad segmentation for gender and country, The Wall Street Journal reports. Ireland’s data protection regulator fined Meta roughly $423 million […]

TikTok CEO Shou Chew is no Zuck. The social media app activated a fan army after congressional hearings last week. Plus: State laws are emerging to protect kids from social media, which could squeeze the ad ecosystem.

After more than two years of building and testing, Meta is releasing brand suitability controls and third-party verification for its feed environments.