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  • Roku Stars In The Pre-Cannes Gossip; Don’t Sleep On Automattic

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. All Systems Ro’ Roku insiders are abuzz about a potential acquisition by Netflix, Insider reports.  There’s no firm reporting of a deal, or even of negotiations. But two employees say Roku abruptly closed the trading window to sell vested stock. That kind of trading […]

  • Ad Arbitrage Sites Use Misleading Formats; NPR Sells Its Podcasting App

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Upselling Ad arbitrage – buying web traffic and then selling that inventory on a website for more than it was originally paid for – is universally decried but is also still a lucrative strategy. The enterprise data software company DeepSee published a report showing […]

  • Monetizing TV News Post Trump; Wordpress Buys Parse.ly

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Now What? With Trump out of office, media companies will have to figure out how news fits into a streaming future. CNBC reports that the news frenzy around Donald Trump’s presidency allowed news companies to delay any dramatic shifts to their business models for […]

  • Innovid Snaps Up Display Ad Company For $30M; Modern Publishers Need To Think Like DTC Marketers

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Is This Innovid-ive? Video ad company Innovid bought Argentinean display company Herolens for $30 million, after raising $30 million in January. “Display is a bad business,” Innovid CEO Zvika Netter told The Wall Street Journal. Huh? Well, Innovid needs a display ad business to […]

  • Ad Platforms Should Collaborate On Brand Safety Standards

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is by Jon Burke, advertising lead at Automattic. Snapchat is the latest major publisher to go public with its brand safety partnerships. Prior to that, Facebook revealed that it would hire 3,000 new workers to focus on […]