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When MediaMath filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a Delaware district court on Friday, its debts were laid bare.

AdExchanger has learned that MediaMath, which raised $600 million since 2007 and had a peak valuation of more than $1 billion, will file for bankruptcy.

Here’s why YouTube has legal protection from copyright infringement, and what content owners do when they detect reposted content on YouTube using the platform’s recognition tools.

The alleged independent third-party ad verification on YouTube and across its network does not actually meet the standards any rational being would have for “independent” or “verification.”

iHeartMedia is betting big on its B2B Podcast Network as a way to reach a coveted and hard-to-reach audience: marketers.

Machine learning tech is consuming open web ad budgets as big walled gardens consolidate media, data, tech and audiences inside their own fortresses.

Kroger Precision Marketing, the grocery chain’s retail media arm, announced plans to bring its self-serve retail media ad tech fully in-house and shared an update on how the project is going.

Some consumer insights are obvious: People who buy hot dog buns are more likely to buy hot dogs, for example. But Instacart has also observed some far less intuitive online shopping behavior on its platform.

The BOMESI Collective, which includes 50 Black-owned publishers, is now integrated with Concert, Vox Media’s supply-side platform.

The company’s immediate plans for reinvesting its new capital include hiring more executive leadership to spearhead sales and partnerships, growing its engineering team and expanding its presence in the US and Japan.

One-fifth of the US population is Hispanic. But Spanish speakers are sorely underrepresented in measurement ratings, so advertisers miss out on audience buying opportunities, says TelevisaUnivision’s Dan Aversano. To bridge that gap, media companies must be more comfortable with privacy-safe data sharing.

The new version of header bidding software makes it easier to identify specific ad transactions, gives publishers more granular control over how they express user consent to downstream partners, and enables testing of Google’s Privacy Sandbox.

AdsPostX’s OmniSDK tool identifies and combines implicit and explicit signals about user behavior. Retailers can use this information to show customers relevant offers after checkout.

Disney has its hands full bringing Hulu’s ad targeting products onto Disney+. It takes time to migrate less conventional ad formats onto both on-demand and live inventory while keeping the ad load under control.

Albertsons Media Collective, the retail media network (RMN) operated by food and drug retailer Albertsons, released a working draft of a retail media standardization framework on Thursday.

The dormant subscribers Daily Voice has reactivated so far this year are more engaged and attract higher CPMs for their impressions than its wider subscriber base.

How do you solve a problem like coupon code leakage? Outway Socks worked with Social Snowball, a Shopify-exclusive affiliate platform for e-commerce, to find out.

The pandemic aftermath spurred major changes to Evite’s business model, including a pivot away from display ads in favor of affiliate and influencer marketing.

Data privacy law is becoming more technically complex, and enforcers are getting increasingly savvy about how online tracking technology works. That’s why being a privacy lawyer today means diving into the technical details, says Daniel Rosenzweig, a senior associate at Norton Rose Fulbright.

Paramount launches a clean room integration with Havas Media Group using LiveRamp’s data collaboration software. Because the software is cloud-based, it can plug into other related technology that clients may already be using.

AppsFlyer’s solution allows advertisers and DSPs to create custom first-party segments for reengagement campaigns without needing an SDK integration of their own.

Ibotta’s consumer-focused offering still makes up more than half of its business, according to CEO and founder Bryan Leach. But its performance marketing network is its future.

According to the ANA, brands could save at least $20 billion a year by cutting out low-quality programmatic inventory on the open web.

ID5 is integrating its ID graph into The Trade Desk’s Identity Alliance. And European publishers partnered with ID5 can apply EUID for logged-in traffic.

There isn’t going to be one single resolution to the measurement debate. The TV market will most likely end up with a hybrid model that includes everything from ACR and big data via smart TVs to, yes, much-maligned Nielsen-style panels.

Connected TV measurement is so messy that I was invited to perform a stand-up comedy set about it at the Cynopsis Measurement and Data conference in New York City.

Roku announced two new ad formats to help brands get in front of both ad-free viewers in addition to people streaming with ads. The new formats are interactive, and will be shoppable where applicable later this year.

Martech holding company The Brandtech Group acquired Pencil, a generative AI platform for ads, on Thursday.

Criteo wants to be an advertiser’s one-stop shop for, well, shopping. On Tuesday, Criteo released a supply-side platform out of beta called Commerce Grid specifically for buyers and sellers of commerce media.

Google made six AI-related announcements in one day, including the ability to use images in Bard prompts, additions to its Search Generative Experience, a virtual clothing try-on feature and two new AI-powered video campaigns for YouTube.