Data Privacy Discussions Need A Reality Check
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.
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 […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Help Me, Help Me Amazon announced ad platform upgrades at its annual UnBoxed conference, just ahead of quarterly earnings today. Like Google, Amazon is now a content fortress with its own cloud, which means that when it makes ad tech updates, the result […]
There’s a misguided desire to find a third-party cookie replacement with as little disruption as possible, and confusion reigns about data collaboration alternatives, their capabilities and the differences between them.
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 […]
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Alex Cone, product manager for the Google Privacy Sandbox, addressed some of the industry’s burning questions during AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO event in New York City last week.
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Like their cookie cousins, IP addresses face an uncertain future. Yet the industry seems stumped for an alternative to its chosen CTV default.
On Monday, PMG acquired Camelot, an independent media and marketing agency that specializes in buying video, OTT and CTV. This acquisition marks PMG’s first since its founding 13 years ago.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Apple’s Bite Apple will now let paid subscription apps (think The Economist or meditation app Calm) offer audio content exclusively for their subscribers, a trendy tactic in Podcast Land. Spotify has a similar idea, but it partners with the subscription service Patreon. And […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Line In The Sandbox The Chrome Privacy Sandbox was hyperactive when it launched in 2019. (Remember the sudden appearance of all those bird names?) That was back when the deadline to remove third-party cookies was Q2 2022. But in 2021, Google Chrome […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Thanks For Not Sharing Non-advertising companies can end up with strange new incentive structures when they start collecting ad dollars. For instance, the more Netflix’s ad revenue grows, the greater the internal pressure to crack down on password sharing. Previously, Netflix could turn […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Price Of Admission The discovery process for Google’s federal antitrust trial is already yielding some painful admissions when it comes to reinforcing the industry’s suspicions about Google. Jerry Dischler, VP of Google’s ads business, testified Monday that Google tweaks its search ad […]
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 […]
US media advertising sales surged 4.4% in Q2 after two weak quarters, beating June expectations of 3.6%. Full-year spend for 2023 is expected to increase by 5.2%, according to a Magna forecast released Monday.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Search And Discovery The Department of Justice’s antitrust suit against Google began in earnest this week, with Google economist Hal Varian taking the stand and both sides presenting their opening arguments. The case could have major repercussions, just like the government’s 1990s antitrust […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Floor Plan The Trade Desk will start undercutting SSP price floors in its bids starting next month, Insider reports. Publishers often set minimum asking prices for their ad inventory. But their SSPs then typically tack on their own costs on top of these […]
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To make sense of changes to mobile campaign reporting, marketers need to understand postbacks – the most essential element of mobile attribution.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Uncapped Streaming TV viewers know what it’s like to be hounded by an ad for days or weeks at a time. Shira Ovide of The Washington Post explores how to avoid this unfortunate phenomenon – although it’s not an encouraging report. People can jump […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Visionary, Vision Is Scary CMO tenures are shrinking. Confidence in CMO decision-making is down. Yet the demands on the CMO are expanding and growing more difficult. “To add insult to injury, we’ve seen an overall lack of … competence, perhaps?” writes Chris Gadek, […]
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 […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Snappy Comeback In 2021, when Apple announced ATT, Snapchat Co-Founder and CEO Evan Spiegel said he was “happy to see [Apple] making the right decision for their customers.” Fast-forward a couple of years, and Spiegel is less glowing about ATT, which severely […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. On The Spot Spotify added 10 million subscribers since last year, bringing its total to 220 million paid users. Most streaming TV services would hire a troupe of trumpeters to announce that news. For Spotify, though, it isn’t enough to assure investors of […]
As cookies, pixels and SDK data become increasingly unreliable, almost all of the large ad platforms are pushing server-side implementations to get conversion information from advertisers.