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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. When Less Is More Facebook’s recent algo change could lure TV dollars if it reduces the amount of publisher video content in the news feed. If pubs spend less on Facebook traffic, it “could lead to less inventory and push advertisers towards the more […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ad Bubble? Investors have overestimated the growth potential of digital advertising, claims The Economist. Valuations are sky-high for Google and Facebook, which generate their revenue from ads, while mega-mergers like Comcast-NBCUniversal and AT&T-Time Warner’s pending deal are justified in part on the basis of […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. See To Believe It’s been two years since the ANA and K2 released a damning report on programmatic buying practices, and media agencies are still suffering a trust fallout. Assembly, owned by MDC Partners, has agreed to pay for clients to use a tool […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Creator Crater The past week brought significant change to YouTube’s content creator community and attendant ad revenue. The first major tweak brought a new layer of human review for content in the “Google Preferred” program, a curated video network created as a brand-safe […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Big Blue Bet IBM hopes marketer interest in AI and blockchain technologies will help it seize programmatic market share. “Programmatic is a relatively dumb system – it doesn’t learn,” IBM CMO Michelle Peluso tells Digiday. Raw audience targeting is being outperformed by AI programs […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. By The Board Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will not return to Disney’s board this year because “it has become increasingly difficult for them to avoid conflicts,” Disney said in a statement. Sandberg had been on the board since 2010, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Facebook Changes “Recently we’ve gotten feedback from our community that public content — posts from businesses, brands and media — is crowding out the personal moments that lead us to connect more with each other,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Getting To Yes? Tracking restrictions in Europe and on popular web browsers like Safari are putting retargeting companies in a bind – and “desperate times call for desperate in-browser messages,” reports Ross Benes at Digiday. Some retargeters now drop in-browser messages that opt in users […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Makeup Breakup Amazon is the largest online cosmetics seller, but many top brands see the platform – “a scroll of endless products on white background” – as incompatible with luxury appeal, reports Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The EU’s top court ruled last month that luxury […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Something Ventured MediaMath CEO Joe Zawadzki and Undertone co-founder Eric Franchi are starting a $5 million fund, MathCapital, to invest in industry startups, Lara O’Reilly reports for CMO Today. It’s a modest sum, with a slightly more ambitious fundraising target of $25 million. MathCapital’s […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Appy New Year Since Apple launched the iOS App Store in 2008, developers have made more than $86 billion on the platform. Of that, $26.5 billion was made last year, a 30% jump over 2016, according to an Apple news release. The company touts […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Search For Attention Search advertising has been a sleepy mainstay of digital marketing mixes for the past half-decade, but this year “is poised to experience a late-stage renaissance,” writes Forrester associate analyst Brandon Verblow. For one thing, search budgets will benefit because other ad […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. “Alexa, I’m Out Of Bleach” Amazon is working with top-spending CPG brands on marketing deals for its Alexa voice-activated devices, reports CNBC. “For example, Alexa may suggest to a shopper who previously bought Clorox’s Pine-Sol to consider buying its disinfecting wipes.” Amazon is also […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. OurTube JPMorgan Chase isn’t satisfied with YouTube’s brand safety review, so it’s taking matters into its own hands. The bank’s in-house programmatic team has begun to whitelist channels where it can buy media at scale, Business Insider reports. With 17 filters, the bank uses […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Happy New Year To those of you who enjoyed some downtime over the holidays, welcome back to work. 2017 brought many changes to digital advertising, and AdExchanger has recapped them over the past week. It was a year in which brand safety dominated the […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Programmatic Pushback The news company Quartz released a memo on Thursday laying out an anti-programmatic stance on advertising. “In a bygone era, advertisers wished to align with and support what they perceived as quality content,” writes Quartz publisher Jay Lauf. “That idea has eroded […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Creative Innovation Snap unveiled a new ad format: sponsored animated filters, which are branded augmented-reality lenses for its outward-facing camera. Dunkin Donuts launched the first campaign using the format Thursday. Snap, which claims 3 billion snaps using animated filters are created on its platform […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Sprechen Sie Data? Germany’s top antitrust enforcer is going after Facebook with a new interpretation of competition law. According to German officials, Facebook is abusing its power as the dominant social media platform in the region, where it has more than 90% market share, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Time Is Now Bloomberg went live Monday with TicToc, its 24-hour streaming news service on Twitter. The channel will stream a mix of original Bloomberg newsroom programming and curated video and other content drawn from Twitter users. Rather than selling ad space like […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Peltz On Board Activist investor Nelson Peltz has been named to the P&G board. Peltz declared victory following a November recount, but lost by 498,312 shares in a final tally in December. However, in a letter to shareholders, company Chairman and CEO David Taylor said Peltz […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pandora’s Music Box Pandora now allows nonsubscribers to listen to music on demand after watching a 15-second video ad, a major change to its service and revenue model. Pandora’s 73 million unpaid US users cited song selection as their top request last year, and […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. New Year’s Diet Vendor culling is real, at least on the sell side. And the advent of GDPR will likely shrink the vendor community even more [AdExchanger coverage]. But this year, publishers cut the number of supply-side platforms they work with by 20% on […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. First Price, So Nice Next month, Rubicon Project will begin offering two flavors of first-price auctions, CTO Tom Kershaw shared in a blog post Monday. The exchange will select the winner of an auction on a first-price basis. From there, buyers will have two […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Abracadabra, Apple Shazam Competition among music streaming platforms – already a cutthroat category – will heat up even more with Apple’s acquisition of ad-supported music recognition app Shazam. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but TechCrunch sources peg it below Shazam’s $1 billion […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bon Voyage Criteo is selling some of its travel marketing technology and accounts to Koddi, a startup that specializes in travel metasearch bidding. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Criteo will retain some travel industry retargeting accounts, including major clients like Expedia, reports industry […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Sly As A FireFox Verizon’s Oath is in a legal dispute with Mozilla in response to the browser operator’s surprise decision to break its contract and revert to Google as the default search provider for Firefox. Marissa Mayer struck the original deal in 2014 […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Malware Blues ProPublica found dozens of politically charged ads on Facebook that inject malware into consumers’ computers. The ads come with provocative headlines about hot-button political issues and targeted Facebook users likely to click based on political ideologies. Some ads caused computers to freeze […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Fixing Procurement Recent industry meltdowns around brand safety, fraud and agency rebates have put “extra pressure … on the relationship between marketing and procurement,” Marketing Week writes in a new primer on overcoming tensions between the two departments. Marketers often bristle as their procurement […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Facebook Mulls Pre-Roll “We don’t need to do pre-roll because our model is not one where you come to Facebook to watch one piece of content, you come to look at a feed,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said as recently as July. But the company […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Broadened Horizons For the past couple of years, Google has quietly assembled the pieces of a major travel and hospitality product. The search giant has slow-pedaled travel metasearch in deference to companies like Expedia and Priceline, which are two of the highest spenders on […]