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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 […]

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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 […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Another Grilling Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Jack Dorsey are heading back to the hot seat. House lawmakers are set to question the top execs at Facebook, Google and Twitter at a high-profile congressional hearing scheduled for March 25. Democrats and Republicans on the […]

Podcast monetization is top of mind at Spotify. On Monday, the audio streaming platform introduced the Spotify Audience Network, an audio advertising marketplace where advertisers can reach listeners across ad-supported music, Spotify’s own original and exclusive licensed podcasts and podcasts hosted on Spotify-owned Megaphone and Anchor. Megaphone is the podcast monetization and publishing platform Spotify […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Win For Privacy Virginia is in line to follow California’s lead with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which is already in effect, by finalizing its own comprehensive data privacy law this year, according to ACA News. The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Misinfo Sitch Brands may have said they’re all about brand safety during the pandemic, but the reality of where their ads are actually appearing tells a different story. According to a new report from NewsGuard, 4,315 brands ran more than 42,000 different ads on […]

Despite the pandemic, The Trade Desk’s year over year Q4 growth accelerated in 2020, increasing revenue 48% to $320 million. In Q4 2019, the demand-side platform’s revenue grew 35%. In 2020, marketers using the Trade Desk’s sent $4.2 billion in ad spend through the demand-side platform. Spurred by the pandemic, they doubled the amount they […]

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Amazon hired Google’s former group product manager Sam Cox and Amobee’s former chief product officer Jamie Fellows to supercharge the growth of its demand-side platform. Cox and Fellows will lead a DSP product team that employs a few hundred people, in an organization headed by Matt Battles, VP of multichannel advertising. Amazon confirmed the hires […]

Goodway Group’s performance soared after it fed log-level data from PubMatic’s exchange into its DSP algorithm. By connecting to the supply-side platform, the agency’s algorithm could analyze more granular data, like why a client lost an ad auction and the price of the winning bid. And when it won an auction, the exchange shared information […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Mo’ Problems Google and Facebook are expected to become ensnared in a host of private antitrust lawsuits stemming from the government cases against the tech giants. The New York Times reports that more than 10 suits echoing the federal and state cases have already […]

The insurance market is highly competitive, with big marketing budgets and highly recognizable mascots – like the Geico gecko and Progressive’s Flo. The direct-to-consumer insurance company Lemonade (which went public in July) started four years ago in New York City offering renters’ insurance – the type of $60 per year policies  the  big guys didn’t […]

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Viant’s stock rose 90%, from $25 to $47 per share, after its debut on the NASDAQ stock exchange Wednesday.  Investors on Viant’s roadshow “clearly understood Viant’s people-based approach, and how it’s built for cookie and device identifiers going away,” said CEO and co-founder Tim Vanderhook to AdExchanger. At the time, the stock was up to […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hold, Please The former Trump administration’s plan to force the sale of TikTok’s US operations to Oracle and Walmart has been put on ice – again. President Biden is reevaluating his predecessor’s efforts to address potential security risks from Chinese tech companies, The Wall […]

If the ongoing pandemic has demonstrated anything, it’s that pre-packaged pre-COVID consumer data no longer applies. “The world has completely changed and there are a lot of stale data sets out there,” said Dominic Joseph, CEO of search intelligence company Captify, which released a self-serve insights, planning and activation platform on Wednesday called Sense. Several […]

Marketers looking for their customers in contextually relevant environments will be able to do so via a new partnership between Media.net and LiveRamp. Media.net is connecting its contextually-focused exchange to LiveRamp’s Authenticated Traffic Solution. The combo enables private marketplace buys that have been curated to include both a marketer’s own customers and the contexts they […]

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Tweets about politics during the US presidential election drove monetizable daily active use of the platform up 27% year over year during Q4, to 192 million. Revenue grew in lockstep with that use, rising 28% to $1.3 billion during the same time period. Advertising grew not just because of increased use, however, but due to […]

District M and Sharethrough will merge to form a single exchange covering native, display, mobile, instream and video. Their combined scale serves a dual purpose. First, it puts them in a better position with buyers, who are working with fewer, but larger exchanges. Second, the two companies will double their revenue, putting them in a […]

The ad boycott against Facebook this past summer had little impact on its bottom line. But the boycott did appear to create an opportunity for second-tier social media platforms, such as Snapchat and Pinterest. “A large share of the accelerated growth we saw from those companies in the third quarter [of 2020] was almost certainly […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Now What? With Trump out of office, media companies will have to figure out how news fits into a streaming future. CNBC reports that the news frenzy around Donald Trump’s presidency allowed news companies to delay any dramatic shifts to their business models for […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. GAID-night, Sweet Prince Hear that? It’s the sound of Google getting ready to drop the other shoe. Bloomberg reports that Google is thinking about implementing privacy controls on Android similar to the ones that Apple is close to rolling out on iOS 14. Google […]

Super Bowl LV will look pretty different on and off the field when the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers square off Sunday. While 186.6 million people are expected to tune in this year, according to the National Retail Federation, the COVID-19 pandemic is also playing a big role in how advertisers are adjusting […]

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