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Comcast-owned ad buying platform AudienceXpress upgraded its targeting chops, including more data for audience segmentation and new conquesting capabilities.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Big Lame Last year’s Super Bowl ads are noteworthy, in retrospect, for those cringeworthy crypto spots, including for disgraced crypto exchange FTX. Don’t worry, though, nobody’s learned anything. This year, advertisers are leaning into controversy and making decisions they could come to […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ad Tech? What Ad Tech? One refrain from Google when it defends its third-party ad tech business is that ad tech is a minuscule contributor to Google’s revenue. Which begs the question: Why not get rid of it? But Google won’t quit ad […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. All Of A Twitter Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition must be near, because Musk is sounding like the real-world owner of Twitter and not a troll trying to harm the business.  “There has been much speculation about why I bought Twitter and what I […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Unbeatable You The podcasting business is colliding with vlogging, as popular YouTube accounts and podcast hosts branch out into a hybrid video podcast format. The big winner, of course, is YouTube.  One recent report found that YouTube is actually the biggest podcasting […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. EA Or Nay? EA Games is looking for a buyer, according to game news journal Puck. And the buyer will probably be a company with a streaming service.  After a (debunked) rumor saying Amazon intends to buy EA, its stock surged 15% in […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Googling Through The Headlines Google flooded the zone with news and interviews this week.  On the transparency front, one announcement that will impact ad tech is Google Ad Manager’s new “Revenue Verification Report.” GAM, the Google SSP, will look into buy-side gross revenue […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Get The Net Netflix isn’t just vetting third-party vendors for its pre-launch ad business (though it is vetting vendors, to be clear).  The streaming leader is on the hunt for an executive to lead its incubating advertising business, The Wall Street Journal reports.  […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Get Connected The coveted prizes in programmatic right now are exclusive CTV contracts.  In Cannes, the crème de la crème for handshakers and lunch-takers is Netflix. Google is meeting with Netflix there, Ad Age reports, and is an obvious choice as Netflix purportedly […]

The market is not being kind to digital media companies. The nearly 40% drop in BuzzFeed’s stock price on Monday and the decline of its valuation from $1.5 billion when it went public in December to roughly $300 million now is no doubt causing other digital-native publishers to rethink their IPO plans. But any doom and gloom about the long-term viability of digital publishers in public markets is likely overblown.