For brands, this opens a new lever beyond impressions. For publishers, this is a business problem, as their first-party data and on-site inventory could become less valuable for targeting.
Google’s pivot on IP addresses shows it fears competition; the FTC investigates media watchdogs for advising brands not to spend on X; and Mondelez accuses Aldi of copying its snacks.
In today’s newsletter: The FTC is suing Kochava (again); marketers are complacent about third-party cookie deprecation; and Publicis Health pays the piper for its role in the opioid epidemic.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tick Tock TikTok Shop isn’t doing so hot in the US. On average, the shopping service is making between $3 million and $4 million per day from US consumers compared with $50 million and $60 million in Southeast Asia, one of its most […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Hasbros And The Have-Nots Companies like Netflix, Roku, Apple, Amazon and Paramount are thirsting for recognizable brands they can build a content universe around. Media franchises provide a solution. Because, apparently, people will settle for only franchises and nothing new, ever again. […]
Amazon provided the spark for a surge in retail and commerce-based advertising. That surge has now reached fever pitch as other online retailers, including Walmart, CVS and Target, launch ad platforms in pursuit of incremental advertising revenue. It’s working. Already advertisers are spending $5 billion annually on non-Amazon retail media platforms, according to Forrester Research. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trump’s Hatred Besides his war on the democratic process, President Trump is also going after apps with ties to China. According to the Wall Street Journal, the lame duck president – just a day before he incited a massive protest in which crowds stormed […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Ramsey McGrory, CCO at Mediaocean. Closed ecosystems such as Facebook, Amazon and Google are likely the prevailing structure for media in the next decade, due to privacy-centric regulatory and policy shifts. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Programmatic Merger Kepler Group has acquired UK-based Infectious Media for an undisclosed sum. Read the release. The combined global programmatic agency company has 400 professionals across London, Singapore, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco and Costa Rica. The firms’ combined client roster includes Hasbro, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Google Cuts Google plans to reduce marketing investments for the second half of 2020 by up to half, CNBC reported. A selective hiring freeze has also been imposed for both full-time and contractual employees. “We are reevaluating the pace of our investment plans for […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Not Just Blowing Smoke Sometimes, when brands take a social or political stance, it can come off feeling opportunistic or merely part of a marketing campaign. Purpose-based marketing featured prominently at the Cannes Lions festival earlier this summer. But CVS is doing more than […]
The evolution of commerce has made data the new “MVP” of retail marketing. A common theme at this week’s eTail East conference in Philadelphia, a gathering of 1,150 retail minds, was delivering personalized offers at scale. To do so, marketers are looking for ways to harness data across a range of sources ranging from loyalty marketing […]
