Is the ad tech M&A freeze starting to thaw? A private equity firm bought Cadent for $600 million this week. Plus: Programmatic ads hit the big screen, brought to you by National CineMedia.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Labels Amazon is dropping a large portion of its private-label products: 27 of its 30 clothing lines will soon be gone, The Wall Street Journal reports. On the one hand, who cares? It’s not like anybody notices the Amazon private labels. “Oh […]
Integral Ad Science (IAS) beat its earnings and revenue estimates for the second quarter despite belt-tightening among advertisers and fallout from the recent TrueView scandal.
Buying AI ad tech startup Scibids is a logical move for DoubleVerify as it continues to move beyond measurement into media activation and campaign optimization.
Measurement and analytics company DoubleVerify touted its decision to acquire Paris-based AI startup Scibids for $125 million during its Q2 earnings call on Monday.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trading Up “Investors had gotten away from an industry they used to love, but the fundamentals are still there when you consider what percent of global ad spend is bought programmatically today versus what will be programmatic five or 10 years from now.” […]
The alleged independent third-party ad verification on YouTube and across its network does not actually meet the standards any rational being would have for “independent” or “verification.”
After years of courting lower-funnel performance budgets – and charging on a cost-per-click basis – Outbrain foresees further growth in attracting upper-funnel spend. It’s doing so by giving brands a way to measure their return on investment in awareness campaigns by tracking whether people are actually paying attention to their ads.
Is there a correlation between high attention scores, low emissions scores and business outcomes? To find out, Mars and Nestle-owned Nespresso are testing two new private marketplace (PMP)-based products developed by attention metrics provider Adelaide.
As DoubleVerify (DV) aims to make attention metrics a key part of its product mix, it tapped ad industry veteran Daniel Slotwiner to lead its Attention Lab initiative.
