Concrete findings on how effective QR codes are at driving ad interactions are now available, and some industry best practices are emerging.
While advertisers’ interest in gaming may be growing, their spending commitments seem stuck on pause, judging by Tuesday’s IAB PlayFronts event.
Why should establishing consumer trust be a differentiator – and wouldn’t it be great if that was just every company’s MO?
DoubleVerify adds Rockerbox to its attribution stack; Taboola courts performance marketers with a new ad platform; and the end of the MLB/ESPN deal spells opportunity for sports streamers.
Why the agency pivot to alternative payment models is good for M&A; Zeta Global responds to a short-seller’s explosive claims; and X sees a mass exodus after the election.
To court new programmatic buyers, SoundCloud is now selling its display and video ads via open auction and private marketplace deals that combine multiple types of inventory.
Freestar adopted a new approach to curation developed by Audigent that gives buyers a priority lane to publisher inventory with higher viewability and attention scores than most open-auction inventory.
In today’s newsletter: Ampla suspends loans to DTC brands, putting their ad budgets at risk; why Sony is investing in IP rather than a streaming platform; and Netflix will move on from Microsoft in favor of in-house ad tech by 2025.
Retail media is due for a reality check, according to Max Willens of eMarketer/Insider Intelligence. Willens spoke at the Programmatic I/O conference.
Enthusiasm about video games is surging, but marketing budgets have yet to catch up to the hype. Gaming ad spend is growing, but at a slower rate than other emerging channels.
Retail media may still be a nascent industry, but it is quickly becoming integral to retailers’ advertising strategies. And, as traditional advertisers like Sainsbury’s or Tesco join the retail media space, there are issues and questions the market must urgently address.
US political ad spending is exploding in the runup to the 2022 midterm elections, with an estimated $8 billion to $13 billion up for grabs this election cycle. But, while CTV and streaming video are seeing an infusion of political ad cash this year, local news publishers aren’t seeing a dramatic change in their bottom lines.
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Mark Fleisch, SVP of national sales at GroundTruth. Supply-chain issues have affected everything from weekly grocery trips to brand loyalty. But for marketers, inventory challenges extend beyond manufacturing floors and empty store shelves. The digital […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Grabbing Share Watch out, Google and Facebook – Amazon is catching up. According to eMarketer, Amazon’s share of the digital ad market in the United States grew to 10.3% last year, up from 7.8% in 2019, The Wall Street Journal reports. It’s expected to make […]
Advertisers and publishers are bracing for upheaval as two major identifiers commonly used for audience-based targeting are set to go away. But are marketers really prepared for the change? Putting aside the China affair, Apple’s IDFA restrictions could be phased in as soon as this week, while third-party cookies in Chrome will be phased out […]
Industry Preview is a special, limited-run audio series featuring interviews with key leaders in marketing, media and technology who share their predictions and key priorities for 2021. This podcast is sponsored by Engine Media Exchange. Research forecasts are constantly being revised and replaced based on emerging data – all the more immediate during a pandemic. “We […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Risky Business Publishers got pummelled by the pandemic, and advertisers nervous about brand safety (and their overzealous blocklists) were at least partly to blame. With that in mind, the IAB Tech Lab accelerated the rollout of its Content Taxonomy 2.2 this week to help […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Anti Anti-Vaxxers Today in Facebook ad ban news: Facebook will bar ads that discourage users from getting vaccinated, the company said Tuesday. The move is part of a larger new flu vaccine information campaign launching on Facebook. The social media giant will still allow ads that […]
Like the little engine that could, digital and programmatic ad spend will do better than expected in the second half of the year and beyond. According to revised stats from eMarketer, United States digital display spending will grow by almost 10% this year (vs. a prediction over the summer of just 6.2% growth), while overall […]
If you missed the first day of AdExchanger’s Programmatic.IO digital event, here’s a little taste of what happened. The COVID-afflicted investment environment, and why the big platforms are immune Group Nine CEO Ben Lerer – who’s also managing partner of early-stage VC firm Lerer Hippeau – kicked off the show by sharing his views on […]
This ain’t no papercut. Roughly 6.6 million United States households will cut the cord this year, according to eMarketer’s latest forecast on pay TV trends, released Monday. That’s a 7.5% year-over-year decline, the biggest drop eMarketer has observed. And the picture doesn’t get much rosier for broadcast TV. By 2024, more than one-third of all […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Streaming Down The Rapids In the streaming wars, the mouse will be crowned king. EMarketer anticipates Disney Plus will grab 72.4 million users this year, a full 32.1% of OTT viewers in the United States. By contrast, “only” 18.8 million people have taken a bite of […]
Even Google can’t avoid the vicious impact of COVID-19 on the ad industry. The ad giant’s net US digital ad revenue will decline by 5.3% this year to $39.6 billion, according to eMarketer, even as it projects the digital ad market as a whole to grow 1.7% to $134.7 billion. As a result, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Sign Of The Times The New York Times will remove third-party data and build a first-party data market as cookies bite the dust, Axios reports. Starting in July, the Times will offer 45 audience segments based on reader and subscriber data under categories including […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Game On Facebook launched its new gaming app Monday, speeding up the planned June release. The app will compete with Microsoft’s Mixer, Amazon’s Twitch and Google’s YouTube. Facebook Gaming, as it’s called, gets a cut from viewer-to-player transactions, but will eventually also include advertising. […]
Even if digital video continues to grow through the COVID-19 crisis, growth rates will decline dramatically in the first half of 2020 from previous estimates, according to an eMarketer forecast released Friday. Digital video ad spend in the United States could potentially grow 7.8% during the first half of 2020 to $17 billion or, on […]
EMarketer lowered its 2020 global ad spend forecast on Thursday, revising estimates down from $712 billion to $691.7 billion due to the coronavirus pandemic’s effect on media and commerce. That $20 billion global decline is actually an optimistic forecast, and the ad industry should expect more losses and another downward revision when eMarketer releases its […]
Ad spend by major brands in China has dwindled significantly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and could be a sign of what’s to come across the rest of the world. EMarketer slashed its October China ad spend forecast by 6.2% on Tuesday, bringing annual media spend projections down from 10.5% growth to […]
Instagram’s US user growth rate sharply decelerated last year, from 10.1% in 2018 to 6.7% in 2019, according to eMarketer’s latest social benchmark report. EMarketer is also lowering its Instagram growth forecast, revised down from 5.4% to 4.5% in 2020, and 3.2% instead of 4.1% in 2021. The main reason why Instagram’s growth forecast in […]
Snip, snip, whoosh. Hear that? It’s the sound of cords being cut followed by an inexorable decline in TV ad spending. The share of TV ad spend in the United States is set to drop below 30% of total ad spending for the first time this year, according to eMarketer research released on Wednesday. By […]
