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Temu pulled back on its US ad spend this week, as tariffs loom. Plus, in France, the ATT prompt was deemed anticompetitive and, as a result, will likely need to be changed.

The IAB’s annual advertising outlook has mostly rosy news. Plus, can sludge videos be wielded for good – or, at least, for effective political organizing?

If Chrome imitates Apple, there may be a de facto deprecation of the third-party cookies, since potentially only a slim percentage of users would consent to tracking. In that case, advertisers would still have to primarily rely on cookie alternatives, including the Privacy Sandbox.

Despite setbacks, the mobile advertising industry has not only recovered but thrived post-ATT. What can overcoming the impact of ATT teach us about overcoming the latest uncertainty around the future of the cookie? 

The purpose of ATOM 3.0 is to preserve addressability, but to do it in a way that passes the privacy sniff test.

If Alex Schultz, Meta’s CMO and VP of analytics, had his way, the term “performance marketing” would be retired. There isn’t a line [between] brand and performance,” he says. “It all performs.”

TV ad measurement is still a mess of data fragmentation and marketer frustration, but identity can help bring some order to the chaos.

As TikTok’s global head of marketing science, it’s Jorge Ruiz’s job to prove that ads on the platform can drive results. But marketing measurement is as much an art as it is a science. Also in this episode: self-attribution, the rise (again) of MMM and how TikTok managed to roll with the ATT punches.

Intent IQ, Strategus and PubMatic are partnering to help advertisers retarget iOS device owners after they’ve seen an ad on a smart TV because, while mobile retargeting is an integral ingredient to the CTV performance formula, signal loss makes it hard to get right.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Mis-Addressed Google Chrome will reintroduce a way to disable tracking by IP address by giving users a toggle to block IP tracking. If that sounds familiar, it’s because the product works not unlike Apple’s Private Relay – and will have a similar impact on […]

The industry is too focused on quantity over quality. Unfortunately, it seems there are many people still chasing scale due to a lack of understanding. 

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Apple’s Sauce As Apple wades deeper into the advertising industry sea with its own ad network and attribution system, the company might have to navigate a tricky riptide if it upsets iPhone customers or attracts a regulator’s ire. For instance, Apple doesn’t apply […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tracking Shot The bad news keeps coming for YouTube. The platform has been under intense scrutiny from research firm Adalytics. Its latest report, which accuses YouTube of serving targeted ads on kid-focused content, may have also uncovered evidence that YouTube has been violating […]

To make sense of changes to mobile campaign reporting, marketers need to understand postbacks ­– the most essential element of mobile attribution.

The “Winner Take None” category of VC investments. Plus: Ad revenue is a shrinking slice of income for news publishers.

Less than two weeks after finally ramping up its adoption of SKAdNetwork 4, Meta is rolling back to version 3 following a bug in Apple’s system that messed with conversion values.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Europe, You’re Down Meta may ask for specific consent to use data for advertising purposes in the EU, The Wall Street Journal reports.  After GDPR became law, Facebook began requiring European users to allow the platform to use data for ad purposes by […]

Something ostensibly “good” (consumer privacy protection) could also be an antitrust violation. Weird world. Which is why data protection authorities and their antitrust counterparts must collaborate and compare notes.

AppLovin has added CTV supply from streaming video distribution platform Wurl, which it acquired last March, to its mobile user acquisition platform, AppDiscovery. AppLovin’s marketer clients can now buy CTV inventory on a cost-per-install basis.

Retail media’s got a bit of a measurement problem, but incrementality could help fill in some of the gaps.

Advertisers are turning to programmatic solutions that were purpose-built with SKAN’s methodology in mind to make sense of SKAN4’s attribution signals and optimize iOS ad campaigns.

I’ve heard people say that there’s a Simpsons reference for every occasion. I posit that the same could be said of “South Park.” There’s an episode from 2011 that perfectly encapsulates the debate about notice and choice.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Switching Gears Peloton stock has plummeted more than 90% in two years. Steep job cuts and revenue declines have customers worried whether their high-end bikes and memberships might become worthless. Which makes Peloton a prime candidate to launch an ad revenue business!  It’s […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tough Math MediaMath came to the end of its decade-long venture capital tether last year when it sold a stake to PE firm Searchlight Capital, wiping out the equity of its founders, early investors and employees. It’s a bitter outcome, reports Insider in […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Let’s Get Real Last year, BeReal was flying high on organic growth. Apple named it “App of the Year,” a coveted title, because the prize is sweet, sweet App Store homepage visibility.  But can BeReal keep the magic alive long enough to, uhhh […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Crushin’ It Because Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard is still in the air, the Candy Crush owner didn’t host an earnings call. But Activision Blizzard did share a Q4 earnings summary, which included some revealing nuggets about what it takes for ad-supported […]

Arete Research’s Richard Kramer and Rocco Strauss predicted a reckoning in the year ahead for companies that depend on digital ad revenue, which they expect to decline by 5% to as much as 10% in 2023, thanks to “demand destruction.”

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. AppLovin You … Next Quarter  AppLovin didn’t have a very good Q4 by the numbers, but shares leaped by 30% after the company reported earnings on Wednesday. What gives? Although revenue declined 11% year over year to $702 million, AppLovin still beat analyst […]

When the economy is good, advertisers spend on branding. But that’s not the case when times are lean, Sir Martin Sorrell, executive chairman of S4 Capital, told AdExchanger. Serious economic headwinds and inflation, plus ongoing international conflicts, all impact advertising spend, and that means companies need to get choosier about their tech investments to keep […]

2022 was a no good, very bad year for Meta’s stock. It was the year that Meta reported its first-ever revenue decline – yet shares soared by more than 30% in after-hours trading on Wednesday following Meta’s Q4 2022 earnings report.