Publishers

Netflix ended its first fiscal year with an ads business with a jump in year-over-year subscriber growth and, as a result, revenue.

To better service clients – and help with its own bottom line – Havas Media Network is pushing into specialty services.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ring Airer Netflix is paying more than $5 billion for the rights to livestream “WWE Raw,” Variety reports. The 10-year deal is effective starting next January and represents Netflix’s biggest push into live content. Following a live sports debut with its “Netflix Cup” […]

Crunchtime The EU’s Digital Markets Act has teeth – and now it’s biting, TechCrunch reports. The DMA regulates anti-competitive practices within “gatekeeper platforms” that have an annual turnover of at least 7.5 billion euros. Meta, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and ByteDance all tick that box. Gatekeepers have until March to ensure their operations in the EU […]

Aiming for one thing and being measured against another is absurd. But this is how the multibillion-dollar TV industry has operated for decades.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Don’t Look For Me The FTC isn’t slowing its crackdown on location data brokers. On Thursday, it issued a complaint against InMarket for failing to obtain informed consent from users on its own apps and third-party apps that use InMarket’s SDK before collecting […]

Roku is making more space for brands on its home screen because it’s a good place to reach viewers with lower-funnel marketing messages.

Raptive and others aren’t convinced that the insights gleaned from Chrome’s current state, with some 30 million users sans cookies, will reflect the final state of targeted advertising on the web.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What’s In Store? Netflix’s latest effort to push ads onto subscribers is – you guessed it – a retail bundle. The company is piloting a new package deal with French retailer Carrefour, Bloomberg reports. Customers in the French cities of Bordeaux and Rouen […]

Programmatic auctions are creating so many carbon copies of themselves that it threatens to topple the entire structure of programmatic.

Excluding the long tail of CTV is a hangover from a linear age when audiences clustered around a small subset of wildly popular shows. The idea of “premium” is subjective in a climate packed with vast amounts of content catering to diverse and passionate audiences.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. AdExchanger is taking the day off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Our daily news roundup will return on Tues., Jan. 16. The Clean Slate Disney has been talking up its data clean room at CES. It now has 140 demand customers, and […]

Netflix shared another update on viewer numbers for its ad-supported tier, which currently stands at 23 million global montly active users, and announced plans to introduce pause ads in the next few months.

At CES in Vegas, streaming services are turning out in force. Then, the lawsuit that pitted LG Electronics against Alphonso (now LG Ads), the startup it acquired.

At CES in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Disney announced the availability of combined Disney+ and Hulu ad campaigns for brands in the US during its fourth annual (and first in-person) Tech and Data Showcase.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pod Patrol The CTV ad experience is a hot topic at CES this week. Streamers and brands are exploring interactive ad units, while platforms are still trying to determine the optimal streaming ad load. But no matter how advertisers prefer to engage viewers, […]

Reaching a scaled audience is important for publishers, but scale at all costs is just a race to the bottom in disguise. When publishers have a deep and direct relationship with their readers, advertisers see stronger performance, says Semafor CRO Rachel Oppenheim.

NBCUniversal is kicking off the new year with a programmatic progress report during CES in Las Vegas this week.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Panel Discussion Bad news for Nielsen: Another panel has entered the arena. Samba TV is teaming up with HyphaMetrics to launch a panel for measuring video viewership across linear, streaming and other digital formats, Ad Age reports. HyphaMetrics plans to use Samba TV’s […]

Future is expanding its in-house measurement stack to entice more spend from existing clients and get more US brands to advertise across its portfolio.

Contextual targeting today is way more advanced than what was available a decade ago. So, what could the FTC’s COPPA Rule proposal mean for contextual advertising to kids?

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tough Cookies Some industry observers (including AdExchanger) have deliberated on The Trade Desk’s apparent withdrawal from – and direct antagonism with – the Chrome Privacy Sandbox. Bill Simmons, TTD’s VP of product, penned a column in December for The Current, which is The […]

CTV advertising is evolving from prepubescent into a profitable industry, so expect the nascent trends of last year – namely, a focus on measurement and data, transparency, targeting and programmatic – to shape CTV’s next phase of life.

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pod One Out Podcast advertising is in a tough spot. Although ad sellers are cautiously optimistic about 2024, as more listeners tune in and programmatic audio grows (albeit slowly), podcast advertising overall has been stuck in first gear for years, Digiday reports. What […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. In Services To Who? Apple’s Services revenue – made up of its subscription businesses and the triple-tithe fee on iOS developer earnings – is at risk in 2024, writes the Financial Times. Apple’s Services biz kept overall growth pumping despite a slowdown in […]

Given the deprecation of third-party cookies and the reemergence of contextual targeting, 2024 could be a big year for in-game ads – so long as game publishers position themselves as a source of premium inventory.

This was such a busy year in CTV land that we had to launch a dedicated newsletter just to keep up with all the trends, from measurement, currency, targeting and attribution to streaming data, identity, supply-path optimization and new ad formats – just to name a few.

2023 saw SPO become further cemented in the strategies of DSPs and SSPs for capturing market share. But the long-term trend might see SPO become the default for programmatic advertisers.

Publisher frustrations with the algorithm-driven internet are boiling over – and the rise of generative AI-powered search, which rarely links to the stories it scrapes, will cause irreparable damage.