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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Team Work Reddit is moving to give advertisers deeper access to its platform – and rake in some dough. The social platform has signed its first-ever enterprise partnership agreement with Omnicom Media Group, a deal that encompasses OMG’s media-buying shops, including Hearts & Science, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Guns And Misinformation Facebook is in the line of fire, with House Democrats demanding answers over how the company targeted gun accessory ads next to misinformation about the election as well as news about the Jan. 6 US Capitol riot. CNBC reports that 23 […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Big Critic Tim Wu, a leading critic of big tech who coined the term “net neutrality,” is joining the White House in yet another sign that President Joe Biden is taking a hard look at the way large technology firms operate and wield their […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bite Of The Apple Another day, another platform, another investigation. This time, Apple is under scrutiny by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s antitrust regulator, over whether Apple “imposes unfair or anticompetitive conditions on app developers.” According to The Wall Street Journal, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Sweetheart Deals? Ah Google, if it’s not one thing it’s another. Now, it seems that the Big G has also sparked the ire of small ad tech firms who say the company has entered into a number of revenue-share arrangements with select ad tech […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hyperlocal Hyperdrive TV advertising was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to market and media research firm Kantar, TV advertising experienced a 9% drop to $66.8 billion in 2020. Only spot TV advertising witnessed an uptick in ad dollars last year. Cable TV, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Big Tech Taken To Task Big Tech was in a familiar yet uncomfortable role Thursday: Another tongue-lashing from Congressional members alarmed by its outsize market power. MarketWatch reports that the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law held the first in a […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tikked Off Apparently TikTok doesn’t just feature amusing dance videos created by Gen Zers. Like its larger social media peers, TikTok was not immune to the sharing of misinformation during the election. According to The Wrap, TikTok shared in a new “transparency report” that […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Platform check Australians started seeing links from news publishers on Facebook again after the platform gained some concessions from the Australian government over legislation that will require platforms to pay media organizations. During the dark period, social traffic from Facebook flatlined for many publishers, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Another Grilling Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Jack Dorsey are heading back to the hot seat. House lawmakers are set to question the top execs at Facebook, Google and Twitter at a high-profile congressional hearing scheduled for March 25. Democrats and Republicans on the […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Win For Privacy Virginia is in line to follow California’s lead with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which is already in effect, by finalizing its own comprehensive data privacy law this year, according to ACA News. The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Misinfo Sitch Brands may have said they’re all about brand safety during the pandemic, but the reality of where their ads are actually appearing tells a different story. According to a new report from NewsGuard, 4,315 brands ran more than 42,000 different ads on […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. News Deals Google may have threatened to leave Australia if the government forced tech platforms to pay for news, but the search giant is suddenly showering money on its most demanding critics. The New York Times reports that Google – the dominant search engine […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Mo’ Problems Google and Facebook are expected to become ensnared in a host of private antitrust lawsuits stemming from the government cases against the tech giants. The New York Times reports that more than 10 suits echoing the federal and state cases have already […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pay Up Microsoft is advocating that the US follow Australia’s lead and copy a proposal that would require tech companies to pay newspapers for using their content. It’s also suggested, unsurprisingly, that its very own Bing search engine could be a viable alternative to […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Taking A Hit The ongoing pandemic is still throwing IPG for a loop as the holdco rethinks its structure for the year ahead. IPG reported net sales of $8 billion in 2020, a 6.5% decrease compared with the previous year, The Wall Street Journal […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hold, Please The former Trump administration’s plan to force the sale of TikTok’s US operations to Oracle and Walmart has been put on ice – again. President Biden is reevaluating his predecessor’s efforts to address potential security risks from Chinese tech companies, The Wall […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. #Winning Netflix is outshining the competition. Last year, the streaming giant added subscribers even as it cut spending on advertising, The Information reports. By contrast, most of the older entertainment companies entering the streaming wars shelled out beaucoup bucks on marketing. A recent securities […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Now What? With Trump out of office, media companies will have to figure out how news fits into a streaming future. CNBC reports that the news frenzy around Donald Trump’s presidency allowed news companies to delay any dramatic shifts to their business models for […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. GAID-night, Sweet Prince Hear that? It’s the sound of Google getting ready to drop the other shoe. Bloomberg reports that Google is thinking about implementing privacy controls on Android similar to the ones that Apple is close to rolling out on iOS 14. Google […]

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Antitrust Dust Senator Amy Klobuchar introduced a sweeping new antitrust bill on Thursday that could spell trouble for Big Tech. CNBC reports that the proposed “Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act” would make sweeping changes to antitrust law, granting enforcement agencies more power […]

There are more platforms than Super Mario on this week’s The Big Story. First up, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has exited stage… right? Left? To pick a more workable metaphor, he’s passed the reigns to Andy Jassy, former Amazon Web Services chief. That decision should give you an indication of Amazon’s coming priorities. We’ll chat a […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. So Modest Publicis beat market expectations for organic growth in the last quarter of 2020 thanks in large part to its data company Epsilon, which helped the holdco generate modest growth in the US, Reuters reports. Publicis, which bought Epsilon in 2019 for a […]

Facebook began testing a new in-app screen Monday that will appear before the opt-in prompt required in iOS 14 apps by Apple’s upcoming AppTrackingTransparency (ATT) policy. The test will roll out globally across both Instagram and the core Facebook app. The additional prompt is meant to provide more information about Facebook’s privacy controls and how […]

In the days after the Jan. 6 mob attack on the US Capitol – fueled in large part by former President Trump’s false claims of election fraud – advertisers quickly paused their ad spending amid the heightened sensitivity. By most accounts, the ads were pulled back for 24 to 48 hours by brands and agencies, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Brand Safe? With brands and agencies calling on social media platforms to ensure ads aren’t adjacent to harmful content, Facebook announced that it’s building a tool for advertisers to keep their ad placements away from certain topics in its News Feed. Per CNBC, the […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Investment Boost After hitting the pause button in 2020 in the midst of the pandemic, marketers appear ready to increase their investments in 2021 – as long as a vaccine rollout goes well. A CMO Council survey of 200 global marketers reveals that 65% […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. New Advertisers, New Reality The NFL might have taken a pandemic-related revenue hit during the 2020 season, but advertisers still know that it’s the hottest property on TV. ViacomCBS says its Super Bowl ad inventory is pretty much sold out, with 30-second spots selling […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Supercookies Crumble The newest version of Mozilla’s browser, Firefox 85, includes protection against so called “supercookies.” What the heck are supercookies? According to Mozilla, they can be used in place of ordinary cookies to store user identifiers, but are much more difficult to delete […]