A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem… It was neck and neck, but the votes are in and we have a winner! Guess even robots deserve a safe space to process all that data. And hey, it can’t hurt to be polite. 🤖 A big congrats to Thomas Kernan, head […]
While some Privacy Sandbox testers lamented their seemingly wasted effort, they remain committed to post-cookie targeting and measurement – even if Google eventually abandons the Sandbox entirely.
AdExchanger reached out to a number of major DSPs to gauge the current state of adoption of the IAB Tech Lab’s new video ad standard.
Forrester released its first SSP wave since 2014 last week, and there’s a surprise. The research firm ranked Google – whose sell-side ad tech platform is facing federal antitrust charges – as a mere challenger.
DCO has been around for a long time, but it’s still popular with marketers. And although upcoming signal loss may challenge all the ways advertisers can optimize their ads, creative remains a key lever that brands can pull to improve performance.
Marketers and advertisers have been calling for transparency into their advertising investments – from planning to activation, measurement and optimization – for years. Yet, by and large, the lack of transparency has been accepted as the status quo: While we’ve made strides, data remains fragmented – operationalized and accessed on behalf of marketers, rather than with them.
Third-party cookies, once widely used by marketers to track consumers online and target and measure digital ad campaigns, have fallen out of favor with international regulators keen to protect consumer privacy. Since Google originally announced its intention to phase out the use of third-party cookies on its market-leading Chrome browser, the ad tech industry has been developing ways to ensure that marketers and publishers can continue to deliver effective and measurable advertising, while respecting user choice and rights through consent.
Roughly three years after the Schrems II case invalidated Privacy Shield overnight – and with it the legal basis for data transfers between Europe and the US – the European Commission adopted its “adequacy decision” for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Network To Get Work Being called an “ad network” is a major slur for ad tech companies. It implies arbitrage and obfuscation. The Trade Desk and Google butted heads in 2019 over the designation of Google’s exchange bidding (now called Open Bidding) as […]
“Wait and see” is not the motto most of us aspire to.
Yet, with Google’s cookie deprecation timeline getting pushed back and the current landscape of competing first-party identifiers offering insufficient reach on their own, “wait and see” is the approach I see most marketers and advertisers taking today.
Every article I read about the “cookieless future” leaves me envisioning a desolate world where the dream of 1:1 marketing has died, and we’re all back to Wanamaker’s infamous cliché (Which half of my spend is wasted?).
But that dream is not dead. It’s just lost amid an increasingly fragmented landscape of first-party IDs – and clouded by the limited transparency and control offered by the Big Tech players.
By Anders Pilgaard Andersen, senior vice president, general counsel, Adform Recent decisions by multiple EU data protection authorities signal the use of Google Analytics violates the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). These decisions sound a warning not only to the many companies using Google Analytics but, more broadly, to any company using US-based ad […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is by Julian Baring, regional president of Americas at Adform. The digital advertising identity landscape isn’t shifting. It’s shattering. And there’s not an ad tech company, brand, agency or publisher on the planet […]
Google isn’t a fan of using email-based identifiers as a replacement for third-party cookies. “We don’t believe these solutions will meet rising consumer expectations for privacy, nor will they stand up to rapidly evolving regulatory restrictions, and therefore aren’t a sustainable long-term investment,” Google’s director of product management for ads privacy and trust, David Temkin, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Antitrust Dust Senator Amy Klobuchar introduced a sweeping new antitrust bill on Thursday that could spell trouble for Big Tech. CNBC reports that the proposed “Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act” would make sweeping changes to antitrust law, granting enforcement agencies more power […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Digital Wins, And So Does The Triopoly Digital is expected to account for the majority of US ad spending this year, an industry shift driven (or forced?) by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to WPP media buying unit GroupM. GroupM expects US ad spend to […]
It’s not the biggest surprise that Google, The Trade Desk and MediaMath were pegged as “leaders” in Gartner’s third Magic Quadrant for ad tech. Google is Google, while The Trade Desk and MediaMath have both been in the DSP space for a long time. But there are a few new entrants on the scene. Beeswax, […]
With third-party cookies soon to leave the scene, the ad industry is casting about for an alternative identifier, one preferably based on first-party data, collected with consent. Email in particular is being heralded as a way to maintain identity in the face of third-party cookie loss. And numerous industry solutions are being built with email […]
When Google Chrome announced in January that third-party cookies would be phased out in two years, senior ad tech leaders joined the W3C – the group that creates common standards for web browsers – to find ways for browsers to support advertising use cases such as targeting, attribution and frequency capping. Now six months have […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Julian Baring, general manager, North America, at Adform. The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic implications are catapulting the tech-driven marketing world into a new phase of maturity: a long-overdue period of […]
Welcome to ad tech. Everything’s a disaster. But Troels Jensen, former CEO of the Danish fin tech company Itiviti AB, who was brought on as Adform’s chief in April, is sticking to the plan. “The long game hasn’t changed,” Jensen said. “But we do have time now to think about how we’re hitting the ground […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Julian Baring, general manager, North America, at Adform. Some point to browser privacy changes and comments from regulators as evidence that real-time bidding and tracking are ending. Indeed, the long-anticipated “death […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Politically Incorrect Facing major pushback on its policy, Facebook is considering labeling political ads to indicate whether or not they have been fact-checked. Neither Democrats nor Republicans are pleased with the solution, feeling it could hurt their ability to reach and mobilize voters, The […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Julian Baring, general manager, North America, at Adform. All eyes in advertising right now are on over-the-top (OTT) and other connected TV experiences, and for good reason. Consumers have spoken. This is how they […]
AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Adform is a proud member of the tiny club of huge independent ad platforms. With 900 people working in 26 countries, the Denmark-based company takes an engineering-driven approach to data-driven ad buying. Profitable since the early days, its top-line revenue has doubled year on year for […]
Will Dmexco become a no-go? Late last week, the organizers of the Digital Marketing Exposition & Conference (Dmexco) in Germany abruptly severed ties with the show’s two co-founders, Christian Muche and Frank Schneider, sparking concerns over Dmexco’s future. Reports alleged that Dmexco’s organizer and the event’s trademark holders had parted ways with Muche and Schneider’s consulting […]
For the independent demand-side platform (DSP) market, it is the best of times, it is the worst of times. On the one hand, it’s unlikely any new scaled DSPs will enter the market. The costs to build a competitive platform – nine digits off the bat and another eight digits per year in operational costs […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Julian Baring, general manager, North America, at Adform If you’re looking for growth in digital media, look no further than video and native, where advertisers and tech companies alike are […]
Jay Stevens has joined Adform as chief revenue officer. The company created the role because it needed someone to manage the business and control country-specific P&Ls as Adform expands geographically into new markets. He started Monday. Stevens made the switch to the decade-old ad tech company, founded in Denmark, a few months after departing Rubicon […]
Best practices and policies to deal with fraud and botnets are emerging, but ad tech companies aren’t sharing them with each other – partially because they don’t want their secrets to slip out to fraudsters, and partially because ad fraud detection is a competitive differentiator. As a result, companies are developing their own policies and […]
