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Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. “Inspire creativity and bring joy.” TikTok’s mission statement applies as much to its advertising as it does to its consumer-facing product. This week on AdExchanger Talks, head of ecosystem partnerships Melissa Yang describes why the company decided to […]

A week before ViacomCBS rebranded CBS All Access as Paramount Plus on March 4, George Cheeks, president and CEO of CBS Entertainment Group, noted that NFL football in particular will be fundamental to the platform’s growth.  “It drives more subscriptions than any other program, and significant engagement too,” Cheeks said during the company’s Feb. 24 […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Team Work Reddit is moving to give advertisers deeper access to its platform – and rake in some dough. The social platform has signed its first-ever enterprise partnership agreement with Omnicom Media Group, a deal that encompasses OMG’s media-buying shops, including Hearts & Science, […]

Google drew a line in the sand on March 3rd, when it said it wouldn’t build or support cross-site identifiers. But single-site identifiers, specific to an individual publisher, are fair game – and something Google wants to encourage. To that end, Google is dusting off an old/new ID type: the publisher provided identifier (PPID) in […]

Twitch-exclusive streamer Ben Cassell, aka, Cohhcarnage or Cohh, is a professional gamer. But he’s also a businessman with an estimated net worth of around $5 million and multiple brand partnerships. He’s a brand ambassador for Intel Gaming and has sponsorship deals with Corsair and Discord, his own merchandise and his own “Cohhlition” coffee blend through […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Podcast Pie Entercom Communications is throwing its hat into the booming podcast space that is expected to generate more than a $1 billion in advertising revenue this year. The company is set to acquire podcast ad network Podcorn in a deal aimed at helping […]

YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan recalled how, over a decade ago during an IAB annual leadership meeting, he predicted that video would lead the growth of the advertising industry. Back then, 24-hours of video were uploaded to YouTube every minute. Fast-forward 10 years, and that number has skyrocketed to 500-hours per minute.  “Video has […]

GroupM wants to move from using 40 to 50 supply partners globally to five to six partners. As part of that push to consolidate its programmatic supply chain, it struck a global deal with the SSP PubMatic. “We want to use our scale effectively to help clients,” said Andrew Meaden, global head of investment at […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Guns And Misinformation Facebook is in the line of fire, with House Democrats demanding answers over how the company targeted gun accessory ads next to misinformation about the election as well as news about the Jan. 6 US Capitol riot. CNBC reports that 23 […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Big Critic Tim Wu, a leading critic of big tech who coined the term “net neutrality,” is joining the White House in yet another sign that President Joe Biden is taking a hard look at the way large technology firms operate and wield their […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bite Of The Apple Another day, another platform, another investigation. This time, Apple is under scrutiny by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s antitrust regulator, over whether Apple “imposes unfair or anticompetitive conditions on app developers.” According to The Wall Street Journal, […]

Amazon-selling platform Jungle Scout has clinched $110 million to expand. And it’s already applied those funds toward an acquisition: the ad tech startup Downstream Impact, which helps brands and entrepreneurs optimize their ecommerce businesses.  Terms of the deal were not disclosed, though Downstream’s 11 employees joined the Jungle Scout team on Tuesday. The funding will […]

Pinterest has three main priorities for 2021 and beyond: video, making its trend data actionable and shopping. On Wednesday, at Pinterest’s first-ever partner and advertiser summit event, hosted virtually, of course, it made announcements related to all three. “We had a big year in 2020, and we want our advertisers to know more about the […]

App marketing platform AppLovin filed for its IPO on Tuesday after the market closed, and it wins for best ticker symbol ever: APP. Read the full S-1 filing here. AppLovin is taking advantage of a public market boom for advertising-related technology companies, but AppLovin was actually quite hot before the froth started frothing. The company […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Sweetheart Deals? Ah Google, if it’s not one thing it’s another. Now, it seems that the Big G has also sparked the ire of small ad tech firms who say the company has entered into a number of revenue-share arrangements with select ad tech […]

Cardlytics dropped $275 million on Dosh Monday to access Gen Z and millennial consumers – who don’t bank the way older generations do. Both companies are similar, delivering personalized offers (Cardlytics also uses these insights to build analytics based on consumer purchase behaviors). But Dosh works with banking upstarts like Venmo, Betterment and Ellevest while […]

Walmart Connect, the retailer’s internal media network for search ads and sponsored product listings on Walmart.com, added a trio of partnerships on Tuesday. Retail intelligence company Stackline, performance marketing agency Tinuiti and retail growth agency Harvest Group will now enable buying through Walmart Connect, which rebranded from Walmart Media Group in January. Setting up the […]

WarnerMedia’s advertising and analytics unit Xandr has partnered with healthcare marketing and analytics platform Lasso to deliver programmatic advertising to the pharma and healthcare industries across CTV, social and email.  Mike DiNorscio, Lasso co-founder and chief revenue officer, told AdExchanger that the partnership, formally announced on Monday, had been underway since Lasso launched in December […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Put It On My Card Cardlytics is planning to acquire cash-back platform Dosh for $275 million. The deal, a mixture of cash and stock, was announced on Monday, which is also when Cardlytics released its Q4 earnings results. Cardlytics IPOed back in 2018, well […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hyperlocal Hyperdrive TV advertising was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to market and media research firm Kantar, TV advertising experienced a 9% drop to $66.8 billion in 2020. Only spot TV advertising witnessed an uptick in ad dollars last year. Cable TV, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Big Tech Taken To Task Big Tech was in a familiar yet uncomfortable role Thursday: Another tongue-lashing from Congressional members alarmed by its outsize market power. MarketWatch reports that the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law held the first in a […]

Last summer, Penguin Random House became the first advertiser to use MediaMath’s Multicultural Marketplace, which the DSP built to help brands spend their programmatic advertising dollars on multicultural publishers. One of the “Big Five” trade book publishers, Penguin Random House has seen an explosion in demand for titles written by Black, Latinx, Asian and Pacific […]

Here’s something meta for you: Facebook is running a targeted ad campaign to promote the importance of … targeted advertising. On Thursday, Facebook launched a national push that aims to demonstrate the value of personalized ads, especially for small businesses reeling from the ongoing pandemic. The campaign, under the title “Good Ideas Deserve To Be […]

Katie Ford has joined cannabis compliance company Fyllo in February as chief operating officer, leaving Twitter after a two-year stint as head of global brands. The time was right to fly the nest. Ford was the first board member of Fyllo, which was founded by her former Amobee colleague Chad Bronstein. She served as chief […]

Magnite’s revenue grew 69% YoY to $82 million in Q4 2020. Not including its merger with Telaria, revenue grew 20% YoY. The company will nearly double in size once the acquisition of SpotX closes in Q2. In Q4 2020, SpotX had $71.6 million in revenue. Here are the seven highlights you need to know from […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tikked Off Apparently TikTok doesn’t just feature amusing dance videos created by Gen Zers. Like its larger social media peers, TikTok was not immune to the sharing of misinformation during the election. According to The Wrap, TikTok shared in a new “transparency report” that […]

Global media and marketing services company ENGINE is diving even deeper into technology. The company expanded its cookieless offering on Wednesday with Device Graph+, which adds more CTV solutions to its existing planning and buying capabilities across mobile, display and online video. “We’re trying to solve for where the market is headed,” Michael Zacharski, CEO […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Platform check Australians started seeing links from news publishers on Facebook again after the platform gained some concessions from the Australian government over legislation that will require platforms to pay media organizations. During the dark period, social traffic from Facebook flatlined for many publishers, […]

PubMatic, in its first earnings call since going public, reported Q4 revenue of $56.2 million, a 64% increase from the year before. The company was also profitable, with a 72% gross margin. The exchange’s stock rose 10% in after-hours trading. Despite the pandemic, PubMatic grew revenue 31% for the full year, totaling $148.7 million. That […]

Snap wants investors to know that monetization is and will continue to be a top priority. At the company’s first investor day event on Tuesday, executives emphasized Snap’s focus on investing in its ad stack, expanding into new international markets and growing its advertiser base, including small and local businesses. After revamping its self-serve ad […]