CTV

On Thursday, OpenX announced a twofold initiative called TV+, which reserves the CTV label for what the company deems premium inventory while booting resellers from the supply pool.

Viewers might want to watch trashy shows from time to time, but they certainly don’t want to watch trashy ads. For the solution to what ails CTV, the industry could turn to another rapidly growing marketing favorite: retail media. 

During a quarter when many companies are playing Pin the Blame on the Macroenvironment, DoubleVerify’s Q3 revenue rose 28% to $144 million YOY.

Last quarter, The Trade Desk reported revenue growth of 25% YOY at $493 million and profit up from $16 million in Q3 2022 to $39 million this year. But the good topline results were washed out as investors reacted to The Trade Desk’s pessimistic guidance for Q4.

DSPs and SSPs are being graded by TAG TrustNet on whether they comply with a key transparency initiative: sharing log-file data. Find out who’s passing and who’s failing. Then, we count the ways CTV suppliers are embracing programmatic buying.

CTV contributed $52.5 million to Magnite’s Q3 earnings, actually declining 6% from $56 million at the same time last year. CTV comprised 39% of overall revenue this quarter, compared to 41% for mobile ads and 20% for desktop ads.

Skip4, a new gaming-focused ad agency led by women who proudly wear the “gamer” label, is leaning in to grow the channel’s share of media budgets.

With last year’s lingering slide in ad spend, PubMatic sees itself playing the long game by innovating in CTV and retail media, leaning into the SPO trend and adopting cookieless tech.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Location, Location, Location The FTC’s consumer privacy case against Kochava is back on the docket. Last year, the consumer watchdog accused the mobile app analytics platform of selling users’ geolocation data in an open market. However, the presiding judge threw out the FTC’s […]

Integral Ad Science (IAS) had a healthy Q3, with revenues increasing 19% YOY to $120.3 million. And shares jumped by about 5% after earnings.

Omnichannel advertising workflow platform Frequence claims it has a new way for audio companies to court advertisers. On Tuesday, Frequence announced an integration with iHeartMedia-owned Triton Digital, a streaming audio and podcast tech company.

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 […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Talking Shop Two critical ad revenue growth areas for Google are YouTube and shopping ads – which means shopping on YouTube is a priority, to say the least. The newest feature for YouTube shopping is a product display control so accounts can display a […]

While Backstage does cut out SSPs for the most part, it also resurrects some aspects of Yahoo’s own SSP tech.

Although precisely measuring Hispanic audiences is in the best interest of marketers, there are many ways that measurement can get messy, from the data sources used to quantify who is Hispanic to the shortcomings of measurement technology itself.

CTV is poised to become the third “big scale” performance advertising channel, but is effective CTV attribution actually possible?

Like their cookie cousins, IP addresses face an uncertain future. Yet the industry seems stumped for an alternative to its chosen CTV default.

CTV is entirely its own thing. Doggedly following display practices can cost you time and money.

On Monday, Scope3 made its carbon emissions data open to the public so anyone can understand which players are doing well (or not) with their carbon footprint.

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.

YouTube is now a rival to TV networks. Yet many networks still post their content to the platform via friendly licensing agreements. In the current war for viewer attention, this is a potentially crippling move.

Despite everyone fearing the worst for the ad ecosystem in 2023, Madison and Wall Analyst Brian Wieser predicts Q4 will finish out with 8% growth. He explains why he sees green shoots of growth across the industry.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. To The Core Nielsen is trimming its workforce – again – and by quite a lot this time, Ad Age reports. On Wednesday, the TV ratings giant announced plans to cut its global personnel by around 9% “in an effort to bring costs […]

The demand-side platform Viant announced an expansion of its supply-path optimization solution for connected TV ad buying.

Publishers are facing enough headwinds to make their heads spin. These challenges mean opportunity for publisher tech companies like Freestar, which announced Wednesday that it hired Heather Carver as its first-ever chief revenue officer. Smaller publishers will need help navigating an uncertain future, Carver told AdExchanger. The deprecation of third-party cookies and other identifiers, the […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Begun, The Clone War Has The robots are taking over, and publishers are fighting back. A growing list of media outlets are attempting to stop AI bots from copying their content, CNN reports. Last week, The New York Times, Reuters and CNN led […]

If ad tech were a medical patient, a doctor would diagnose it with, among its other ailments, a bloat problem – specifically, bidstream bloat.

Streamers are raising prices amid a challenging environment to win subscribers. Plus: what big changes in data privacy and portability in Europe mean for ad tech.

In the context of TV advertising, clean rooms offer privacy-compliant software that enables advertisers and publishers to match user-level data without actually sharing any personal information or raw data with one another. 

CTV’s over-frequency problem is as real as the pressure streaming services are under to grow their average revenue per user. But you don’t have to sacrifice one to achieve the other, says Jamie Power, Disney’s SVP of addressable sales.