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The convergence of on-site retail and shopping across the web got a little more converged on Tuesday with the news that Kevel has acquired Nexta.

On Friday, Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn) sent co-written letters to Amazon, Google, Integral Ad Science, DoubleVerify, the MRC and TAG notifying the companies that they have been identified as “responsible for serving or certifying” ads on pages hosting child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Amazon’s advertising services group earned $17.3 billion in Q4 2024, up 18% year over year.

AdExchanger reached out to a number of major DSPs to gauge the current state of adoption of the IAB Tech Lab’s new video ad standard.

Criteo’s shares leapt more than 20% Wednesday morning after the company reported continued profitability growth and a strong financial footing.

Nodals AI launches, with its own spin on the custom algorithm ad tech category.

Alphabet is beset by challenges on all sides. But the company’s revenue growth remains unchecked.

There are a lot more self-serve CTV buying options out there than there used to be, but that doesn’t mean managed service providers are going away.

Criteo’s Brian Gleason shared how it is working with agencies to capitalize on curation and measurement opportunities in retail media and CTV.

Slap on your Ray-Ban smart glasses, ask Meta AI to remind you to post on Threads and then hop into Horizon Worlds. Welcome to the near future, according to Meta.

Yahoo’s endorsement could drive further adoption of the IAB Tech Lab’s data transparency labels throughout the programmatic ecosystem after years of inaction.

DSPs have been slow to adopt the Tech Lab’s new signal for classifying online video, causing confusion about which placement signal should be prioritized.

Some buyers are vocalizing their frustrations that the lack of transparency in CTV ad buying could impact the channel’s growth trajectory.

In light of T-Mobile’s plans to buy Vistar Media, Atmosphere TV’s business model shines a brighter spotlight on the grey area between connected TV and DOOH billboards.

Lauren Newman, a news publishing and affiliate marketing vet, has high hopes for commerce media to turn things around.

A new storyline is emerging around curation, one in which publishers feel they’ve lost out to middlemen on yet another opportunity to monetize their audiences.

Commerce media just went shopping. On Thursday, ecommerce marketing company Rokt acquired customer data platform mParticle for $300 million.

Multiple criminal rings around the world are orchestrating surgical phishing scams that target ad industry media buyers. Specifically, fraudsters are duping ad buyers who log in to Google Ads after running a Google Search.

The Trade Desk has said it will buy Sincera, a startup that aggregates and supplies metadata to ad tech companies. This is TTD’s second-ever public acquisition.

Putting an independent vendor like Albert AI in charge of its search and social campaigns means Grassland Beef retains visibility and control over its marketing.

TV sales consortium Ampersand’s new measurement platform combines streaming and traditional TV data to give buyers a better idea of incremental reach and frequency.

Reddit COO Jen Wong shares how the company is banking on AI to push its conversation-driven performance marketing platform forward.

Starting on February 16, Google said it will no longer prohibit fingerprinting for companies that use its advertising products. Oh, how times have changed.

What is the future of curation in 2025? On the CES conference floor, PubMatic Chief Revenue Officer Kyle Dozeman talks about why curation is such a hot topic in ad tech.

Helen Havlak, publisher at The Verge, chats with AdExchanger at CES about how publishers should pivot in response to the dropoff in traffic from Google search.

Ad tech is headed to the stratosphere. As in, on the way to becoming part of the cloud infrastructure technology.

The killer application for generative AI tech in TV advertising right now is very simple: auto-creating videos that small and local businesses can use to run CTV and streaming TV ads.

This week, Experian launched its own marketplace for third-party data vendors at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Good news for the skeptics: 2025 will hopefully be a year of more practical AI use cases for advertising, especially as agencies get more hands-on with the tech.

As the new year begins, expect CTV growth to continue blasting along with a vengeance. Experts are “bullish” on the channel and believe that many of 2024’s biggest CTV trends will continue well into 2025.