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I spent the week in Washington, DC, attending two privacy- and public policy-focused events and I have a single takeaway from both: Enforcement. Is. Coming.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Don’t Look For Me The FTC isn’t slowing its crackdown on location data brokers. On Thursday, it issued a complaint against InMarket for failing to obtain informed consent from users on its own apps and third-party apps that use InMarket’s SDK before collecting […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Add To CART Instacart filed for its initial public offering (IPO) on Friday. Shares should start trading next month (under the stock ticker CART, of course). Call it a thawing of the tech IPO market, which has been frozen for a year and […]

The mobile web version of Wordle now features interstitial video and display ads that will run after a user clicks “Play” and before the game loads on their screen. The move is part of a broader initiative to expand ad offerings across the company’s portfolio.

With a feared recession yet to materialize, GroupM is feeling somewhat optimistic. The holding company predicts in its midyear forecast, released on Monday, that global advertising is on track to grow 5.9% in 2023, in line with its projection from December.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Retail Wagging The Dog Retail media networks are advertising businesses. Usually. Sort of. For many retailers, the data-driven ad practice serves different purposes. Lowe’s announced new digital products for contractors and other professionals, reports Retail Dive.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. AppLovin You … Next Quarter  AppLovin didn’t have a very good Q4 by the numbers, but shares leaped by 30% after the company reported earnings on Wednesday. What gives? Although revenue declined 11% year over year to $702 million, AppLovin still beat analyst […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. VC You On The Other Side The food delivery app Gopuff is looking for a $300 million “cash cushion,” The Wall Street Journal reports, to help bridge tough economic times and diminishing returns in the superfast food delivery startup category.   SoftBank, a gigantic […]

Shortchanging YouTube? Are advertisers caught up in the CTV hype? Mike Shields thinks so. In a recent Substack post, he suggests advertisers ditch the various CTV walled gardens and head over to YouTube instead. There are thousands of streaming services, but YouTube and Netflix still corner about 47% of the market and haven’t lost share […]

Mobile performance marketers like DoorDash are hungry for more video ads to feed their paid social user acquisition (UA) campaigns. Problem is, internal creative teams lack the bandwidth to meet the demands of their colleagues in performance, said Justin Neustadter, head of mobile consumer acquisition at DoorDash. Quality video creative is expensive to produce, and […]