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Roku’s mid-year finances reveal mixed signals. Active accounts are up, but the ongoing writers’ strike is causing advertising growth to stagnate.

Programmers like free ad-supported TV channels because they’re an onramp to bring more viewers into ad-supported video-on-demand environments.

Folgers used TikTok’s click-to-buy video overlays and Gopuff’s quick delivery platform to deliver Folgers products to Gen Z shoppers.

There was so much growth across nearly every area of Meta’s business (with the exception of Reality Labs, its R&D division for the metaverse, which lost $3.7 billion in Q2) that Q2 was actually rather boring. And so, instead of ratting off more stats, here are five takeaways from Meta’s Q2 call in case you missed it.

Amazon Web Services took another step in its development as a key ad tech integration hub on Wednesday, with the general launch of a product called Entity Resolution.

SSPs including PubMatic, Magnite and Wunderkind are moving ahead with plans to recoup revenue paid to publishers from deals conducted on MediaMath’s DSP

Investors on Alphabet’s Q2 earnings call appeared satisfied that YouTube and the ads business in general are back on track. Their attention, unsurprisingly, turned to the potential opportunities for generative AI.

As cookies, pixels and SDK data become increasingly unreliable, almost all of the large ad platforms are pushing server-side implementations to get conversion information from advertisers.

On Tuesday, PubMatic entered the crowded retail media space with the launch of a self-service ad platform for commerce media called Convert.

It’s happening, folks. The Chrome Privacy Sandbox is going live, third-party cookies will be phased out on Chrome by the end of next year – and don’t expect any further deadline extensions, says Victor Wong, senior director of product for all things Privacy Sandbox.

For Joe & The Juice, the best marketing blend Includes AI, as it learned by partnering with Pixis for mobile app install campaigns.

Petal Ads, the mobile ad exchange owned by Chinese device manufacturer Huawei, is on a mission to attract more global advertisers – including with its homegrown operating system, HarmonyOS.

Political advertising restrictions are among the challenges that direct marketing agency MissionWired helps its progressive nonprofits and political campaign clients tackle.

Organic revenue growth for IPG sank 1.7% YOY, with a 2.5% drop in the US. The holding company said a weakened tech sector is partly to blame.

TV publishers and brands are paying extra careful attention to what their adversaries are up to. And one opportunity to get data about competitors comes with programmatic integrations.

Playground XYZ announced today that its Attention Intelligence Platform is now compatible with YouTube ads.

Netflix gained roughly 6 million subscribers this quarter, mostly thanks to anti-password sharing. But advertising remains only a tiny piece of the business.

This week, we’re digging into the DTC biz. Not the metrics or the paid media, exactly, but the information and personal support systems that have grown up as people in the industry experienced wild ups and downs of both business and personal well-being.

Agency holding company Omnicom’s going all in on generative AI – a topic that dominated its earnings call Tuesday.

The DMP is helping BDG target users it couldn’t reach before, in addition to packaging its audiences into more granular intent-based segments.

Third-party data companies have a bad rap lately, especially in Europe. But to be a successful programmatic player requires serious adaption skills, said incoming Captify CEO Mike Welch.

When will Meta monetize Threads, its new text-based app? Too soon to say, according to Alvin Bowles, Meta’s new sales leader. But if past behavior is the best indicator of future performance, it’s only a matter of time (and user engagement).

The Washington Post is experimenting with a variety of large language models–but setting boundaries and guidelines to keep them in check.

Roughly three years after the Schrems II case invalidated Privacy Shield overnight – and with it the legal basis for data transfers between Europe and the US – the European Commission adopted its “adequacy decision” for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

Amazon Prime Day was a smash hit in terms of sales. Now, many brands must prove that two of their biggest sales days ever were, in fact, worth the cost.

Integral Ad Science added a new capability to measure brand safety and suitability for off-YouTube sites and apps through YouTube’s ad network.

The Washington Post is looking to capitalize on a resurgence in advertiser interest in news content, and the AI trend, to create new opportunities for brand collaborations.

Ad tech M&A has had a case of the Mondays since … late 2021. After the blistering pace of M&A during the height of the pandemic, deal activity in the ad tech sector slowed to a trickle in 2022 and has remained sluggish this year.

Clean rooms are dominating ad tech conversations, and the rise of connected TV has spurred clean room adoption to new levels because of inventory fragmentation.

Ad Fontes plans to spend its newfound capital on hiring media bias researchers, developing an AI model for assessing media quality and enhancing its rating tools for foreign-language content.