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The anonymous alphanumeric string made and lost fortunes in its short but eventful life. It was best-known for something it wasn’t actually designed to do: targeting ads.

In today’s newsletter: Buyers are relatively blasé about made-for-advertising sites; Meta is riding high, having fully adapted to ATT, while Google’s search dominance is under threat; and Publicis Groupe reports strong growth.

In today’s newsletter: Uber, the New York Times and Roblox all have ads businesses, but in different flavors; Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery plan to launch a sports streaming service; and Amazon gets introspective in response to competition from Temu, Shein and TikTok.

In today’s newsletter: Netflix is the only profitable streaming service; Meta’s automated support software frustrates advertisers; and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission may designate Amazon a “distributor of goods.”

Are the big players building a more privacy-friendly advertising ecosystem in the right way? Or are they just cementing their control?

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Arc Of History The Browser Company is backed by tech elite like Instacart CEO Fidji Simo, Medium founder Ev Williams, Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. TBC makes a browser called Arc, and this week it launched […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Reg-U-Later Apple has a history of not quite breaching antitrust rulings, but blithely flaunting orders.  In 2022, for example, a Dutch court ruled Apple must allow payment alternatives. Apple paid 5 million euros per week in noncompliance fines over months. It eventually acquiesced […]

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 […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Commerce Copycats The Wild Man Drinking Company (which makes a novelty item called the Krak’in used for shotgunning beers) filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Temu last week (H/t @Sean Frank, CEO of the wallet brand Ridge). Why’s that interesting?   Temu frames itself as […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pining For AI Google laid off nearly 1,000 employees last week – but the hits keep coming. It’s also scrapping hundreds of jobs in its ad sales division, Business Insider reports. The headcount reduction is a byproduct of restructuring its ad sales team, […]

Crisis is often fertile ground for change. And boy, the marketing world is in desperate need of change.

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 […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The New Creative Controls Does “alt_copy_copy2_brand_red_hold” mean anything to you? That’s the way most creative units and product ads are titled, and any associated metadata would likely be the brand’s name and the banner ad size. Meh. But a generative AI bot could […]

On Monday, iHeartMedia-owned SSP Triton Digital announced an integration with Amazon Publisher Services that allows advertisers to buy interactive audio ads through the Amazon DSP on streaming audio.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Take Initiative Meet yet another TV ad standards initiative. GroupM announced the Ad Innovation Accelerator on Thursday, which it hopes could lead to more nonstandard streaming ad formats – and technical standards for those formats to make sure they can run on any […]

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 […]

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.

Welcome to Scandi-Land, where the cookieless future has been our online media reality for the last five years. Here are three lessons for media planners, buyers, sellers and platforms who are going to have a tough time navigating the thicket of change.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Can You Hear Me Now? Consumers wary about targeted ads are convinced their devices are eavesdropping on their conversations. Most marketers insist that’s not the case, and their use of other targeting signals has gotten so sophisticated that it just feels like your […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Organic Farming TikTok has had the same two business priorities for years. One, to develop an ecommerce marketplace on the app and, two, to create a conversion-based ad platform akin to Google, Amazon or Meta. TikTok has struggled mightily on both fronts. Its […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Addressable Auspices Traditional TV advertisers are hesitant to try addressable products because they’re expensive and hard to scale. But programmatic TV ad buying is making addressable more accessible, said Sara Wallace, FreeWheel’s senior director of product management, speaking at an event on Wednesday […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Share Tactics Another secret Google revenue-sharing deal was revealed during antitrust testimony. Google head of global partnerships Don Harrison disclosed during the Epic Games vs. Google trial that the standard 15% fee doesn’t apply to Spotify. Spotify only pays Google 4% of subscription […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Black Friday Indeed Black Friday is almost here. And while all advertisers are always nervous this time of year, ecommerce advertisers are really tweaking. First, there’s the macro-gloom. Credit is tight, prices are inflated and retailers warn of a consumer spending downturn. On […]

Traffic-shaping algorithms push almost all bids to cookied traffic. And the time to adapt to cookieless traffic is almost running out.

The online gaming platform announced a slate of new features for its Immersive Ads hub at its investor day on Wednesday, including video functionality and contextual and age-based targeting available on a self-serve basis.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Apple’s Bite We already knew that Google shells out a heck of a lot for its default iOS search status – and now we know how much. Google pays Apple a 36% (!) cut of the total revenue it makes from searches conducted on […]

The Missing Link Log another demerit for YouTube transparency. Four buyers say their post-campaign reports for YouTube Select are riddled with broken links, Adweek reports. Google introduced YouTube Select in 2020 as a way for buyers to purchase premium YouTube inventory, including top-performing channels and YouTube TV. YouTube sends buyers post-campaign reports with links they […]

First-party data is bolstering Slickdeals’ direct sales efforts and offsetting an industry-wide decline in programmatic CPMs. That data is also making ad targeting more effective for its native retail media inventory as demand for retail ads ramps up.

it’s hard to believe anyone in ad tech truly expects consumers to signal how they would like each corporate entity to track them across every property on the web.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Whoever Attributes, Wins When people refer to the control that Apple and Google exert over the mobile ecosystem, they usually focus on onerous app store fees. Which, okay, fair enough. But “there’s a looming, more subtle, and much more esoteric form of control […]