Digital Services Act

ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox are big enough to be subject to the European Union’s Digital Services Act. And: The world considers social media bans for users under 16.

Meta is no stranger by now to complaints from ad buyers, particularly ecommerce brands and social agencies, reporting major systemic platform issues, including outright bugs and glitches – not to mention decreased marketing returns at higher CPMs.

Google asserts its position in the CTV ad ecosystem. Also: a change to its search ads biz may be inflating advertising costs for charities.

Two of the EU’s biggest Big Tech antagonists are set to resign; a GAM breakup could usher in post-ad-server programmatic; and how Google kept Prebid separate from the IAB Tech Lab.

In today’s newsletter: Roku and The Trade Desk expand their partnership; Instagram changes its content recommendation system; and the European Commission investigates Meta for potential Digital Services Act violations.

In today’s newsletter: Google’s new generative AI image tool within its campaign planning product has some major limitations; Grindr faces a class-action claim over its data-sharing practices; and Snap snaps up political ads.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Demand More Google has started its global rollout of Demand Gen, a machine-learning ad product launched in beta over the summer. Demand Gen is akin to Performance Max, Google’s most prominent machine learning-based ad product … which is a euphemistic way to say […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pulling The Strings  Disney-owned TV channels went dark on Charter Spectrum last week when the two companies failed to reach an agreement on a new carriage pact, Variety reports. The blackout affected over 25 networks, including ESPN. It was particularly bad timing, too: […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. End Of An Epic Case Epic lost its appeal case against Apple, which it had accused of anticompetitive practices.  However, despite the overall failure of its case, Epic did win one important and now lasting change to Apple’s App Store policies.  Apple’s “anti-steering provision” […]

Businesses should be asking themselves whether their data usage is fair beyond simply getting an opt-in, said Arielle Garcia, chief privacy officer of IPG-owned agency UM Worldwide, speaking at AdExchanger’s Industry Preview in New York City on Tuesday.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. AdExchanger’s daily news round-up will return in 2023. Enjoy your holiday, and may we all resolve to make fewer cookie jokes in the new year. Of No Account A ProPublica report levels damning criticisms at the Google Display Network.  For one thing, accounts […]

The European Parliament adopted the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in July. Although they were passed as one legislative package, they function as two distinct laws. But there is one common thread: Holding Big Tech providers more accountable for what happens on their platforms.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Out Of The Blocs The European Parliament has voted decisively to sign two pieces of landmark legislation into law. The Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA) both regulate online platform businesses much more aggressively.  The DMA targets gatekeeper platforms (namely […]

Keyword blocklists are blunt instruments, and yet they persist in programmatic media buying. It’s time to kick blocklists to the curb and start curating keywords by campaign, says contextual pioneer John Snyder, who sold his company, Grapeshot, to Oracle in 2018.

“Surveillance” is a loaded term, but it’s on the lips of regulators who are working to restrict targeted advertising online on both sides of the Atlantic, from the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act in the US to the Digital Services Act in Europe.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Breaking Big Tech? A set of strict new EU privacy laws now under discussion could be the basis for breaking up the big tech platforms, Business Insider reports. The first drafts of the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act (DMA) were unveiled […]