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  • Call It Consumer Health; The Rise(-ish) Of The Media Agency

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Clean Bill Of Health? Everyone knows the infamous anecdote of a young woman’s early pregnancy being spotted and outed by a Target circular back in the early days of advertising-oriented predictive analytics. But big retailers still casually profile customers using a mix of […]

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    Demonetizing The Disinformation Merchants; NBCU Does Identity Deal With Dentsu

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Defunding Disinfo Is defunding disinformation the open web’s biggest challenge? The ad tech consultancy/watchdog Check My Ads made that case at SXSW last week, Fast Company reports. According to the group’s founders, the disinformation crisis is solvable but will require ad exchanges to […]