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The Big Story: Facebook And Google Vs. America

Holy collusion, Batman! This week on The Big Story, we’ll consider the double whammy facing Facebook with lawsuits from both the FTC and 48 state attorneys general, led by New York’s Letitia James. Or maybe you can call it a triple whammy (is that even a thing?) when we toss in the lawsuit Google faces... Continue reading »

by Ryan Joe // December 17th, 2020 //

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Facebook Claims Apple’s IDFA Changes Harm SMBs

Facebook’s got its claws out, calling Apple’s move to require an opt-in for the IDFA “an attack on personalized advertising” that will harm small businesses, creators and kittens. Well, not kittens, necessarily. It’s just that it’s a little hard not to be facetious when a multibillion-dollar company that just got hit with twin antitrust lawsuits... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // December 16th, 2020 //

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Media Buyers Cite Data And Privacy As Top Challenges; Big Tech Is Open To Updating Section 230

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Optimism … And Concern A half full glass … is also half empty. The IAB’s newly released market outlook report for 2021 is both optimistic about digital advertising in the year ahead and concerned about the loss of identifiers and how the industry will... Continue reading »

by AdExchanger // December 16th, 2020 //

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Tech Giants Lobby EU Lawmakers; The NFL Readies Makegoods As Ratings Drop

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Reining In Big Tech Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google continue to be in the antitrust crosshairs of regulators at home and abroad. According to Business Insider, European legislators were set to unveil a raft of new policy proposals Tuesday designed to curb the influence... Continue reading »

by AdExchanger // December 15th, 2020 //

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Comic: The Naughty List

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem...

by Nate Neal // December 11th, 2020 //

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SMBs Lose Their Digital Identities By Over-Relying On Big Tech’s Scale

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Jory Des Jardins, CMO of The @ Company and co-founder of BlogHer. Nearly 10 years ago I heard about programmatic ad fraud for the first time. I had co-founded a media... Continue reading »

by AdExchanger // December 10th, 2020 //

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Apple Scolds Ad Tech; Google Lifts Political Ad Ban

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Apple Strikes Back “Dramatic,” “outlandish” and “false” – that’s how Apple SVP Craig Federighi described claims being made by the ad tech industry about Apple’s forthcoming IDFA changes in iOS 14. During a recorded speech at the European Data Protection & Privacy Conference on Tuesday,... Continue reading »

by AdExchanger // December 10th, 2020 //

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Digital Buoys Global Ad Spend Big Time During The Pandemic

GroupM, Magna and Zenith released global ad spend forecasts on Monday, and all agree that 2020 was not the catastrophe many had predicted. Disaster was averted in large part due to the accelerated shift to digital during the pandemic. Global advertising fell by 5.8% in 2020, according to GroupM, which “could have been worse” and... Continue reading »

by Anthony Rifilato // December 7th, 2020 //

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Facebook’s Misinfo Problems Continue; Vizio’s Inscape Limits Data Use

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Falling Short? Facebook updated its misinformation policy to include vaccine-related content, as the company continues fighting against claims that it isn’t doing enough to protect its billions of users. The Wall Street Journal reports that the social networking giant will over the coming weeks... Continue reading »

by AdExchanger // December 7th, 2020 //

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