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Generative AI is breaking established internet etiquette to sate a bottomless appetite for training data. Also: The streaming wars continue.

AI was a hot topic at Cannes Lions, while Elon Musk used the festival as a shot at redemption for X. Plus: Expect more crypto ads this year.

In today’s newsletter United Airlines gets into retail media; why AI fails to catch AI-generated content; and political advertisers flock to X for cheap impressions.

Despite forceful calls for a shakeup of the digital ad business from the main stage at the Possible conference in Miami this week, the online ad industry remains locked in a harmful holding pattern.

In today’s newsletter: Amazon’s DSP doesn’t compare to Google’s and TTD’s; US ad spend looks strong this year; European Commission will investigate Google, Apple and Meta under the EU’s DMA.

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. Pod One Out Podcast advertising is in a tough spot. Although ad sellers are cautiously optimistic about 2024, as more listeners tune in and programmatic audio grows (albeit slowly), podcast advertising overall has been stuck in first gear for years, Digiday reports. What […]

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. More Like Fixalate, Amiright? Pixalate just published its October made-for-advertising (MFA) report. And it isn’t pulling punches. Most MFA reports don’t detail revenue contributions by specific media companies or SSPs. Or, if they do, it’s just to pick on Google. Pixalate does pick […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Organic Farming TikTok has had the same two business priorities for years. One, to develop an ecommerce marketplace on the app and, two, to create a conversion-based ad platform akin to Google, Amazon or Meta. TikTok has struggled mightily on both fronts. Its […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trial And Error Here’s a mouthful: The Google Chrome team has announced a “deprecation trial” so some third-party vendors can retain legacy services that depend on third-party cookies when cookie deprecation happens next year. What does that mean in layman’s terms? Vendors can continue […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Black Friday Indeed Black Friday is almost here. And while all advertisers are always nervous this time of year, ecommerce advertisers are really tweaking. First, there’s the macro-gloom. Credit is tight, prices are inflated and retailers warn of a consumer spending downturn. On […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Location, Location, Location The FTC’s consumer privacy case against Kochava is back on the docket. Last year, the consumer watchdog accused the mobile app analytics platform of selling users’ geolocation data in an open market. However, the presiding judge threw out the FTC’s […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Heads Will Roll CEO Kirk McDonald is out at GroupM North America, Insider reports. WPP’s revenue growth tumbled in the US this year, which the company blamed on tech clients curtailing their ad spend. GroupM North America has fared particularly poorly, putting GroupM, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Help Me, Help Me Amazon announced ad platform upgrades at its annual UnBoxed conference, just ahead of quarterly earnings today. Like Google, Amazon is now a content fortress with its own cloud, which means that when it makes ad tech updates, the result […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. For Reels? Meta is struggling to convince advertisers that Reels can be a valuable marketing channel, The Information reports. Since Reels is more of a branding play, it doesn’t fit neatly within the broader Facebook and Instagram flywheel, which primarily centers on direct […]

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. Pushing Forty TikTok is pushing hard for adoption of its on-platform shopping product, particularly in North America.  Last month, it introduced a major Shopify backend integration, which lets brands plug influencers as affiliates and includes a payment system so users can buy without […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Up For Sale Disney is considering selling ABC and its eight local stations. Nexstar Media Group is a possible buyer, Bloomberg reports. Disney CEO Bob Iger recently said he’s open to selling some of the company’s TV networks. Linear is a loss leader […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Thank You, Next Amid all its other TV measurement drama, Nielsen is swapping CEOs, Ad Age reports. David Kenny, CEO since 2018, will be succeeded by Karthik Rao, leader of the company’s audience measurement unit. (Nielsen split into three divisions during a business reorg […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tracking Shot The bad news keeps coming for YouTube. The platform has been under intense scrutiny from research firm Adalytics. Its latest report, which accuses YouTube of serving targeted ads on kid-focused content, may have also uncovered evidence that YouTube has been violating […]

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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. Hammer Time Infillion is emerging as the top bidder in the bankruptcy auction for MediaMath’s assets, which include its demand-side and data management platforms, Insider reports. Sources say Infillion is making a bid of around $22 million. That’s a steal for a company […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Results Are In YouTube told clients earlier this month about plans to start billing some of its video inventory based on its own co-viewing numbers starting in January. Now the buy-side backlash is rolling in, Ad Age reports. This plan “contradicts the […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Cost Of Ad-Free(dom) Streaming is getting a lot more expensive. The average cost for major ad-free streaming services has risen nearly 25% over the past year, The Wall Street Journal reports. Case in point: Disney is hiking prices for its ad-free services […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Follow Your Intuition, I Guess Intuit, which owns Mailchimp and accounting software like TurboTax and QuickBooks, is launching an ad network called SMB MediaLabs, Adweek reports. As the name implies, Intuit’s media business is a “small business-focused media network.” But it’s focused on […]

Now that the new California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) has long been in effect, it’s time to clean up your pixel game.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. In The Slow Lane Dentsu is the latest company to revise its global ad spend forecast downward since its previous report in December. Why? The shaky economy, Adweek reports. Digital dollars, which currently make up close to 60% of all ad spend, will […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cut Us In, Or Cut It Out Twitter is ticked off at Microsoft over data use. Elon Musk outlined his grievances in a letter sent by his personal lawyer, Alex Spiro, to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday, The New York Times reports. […]