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Disney bumped up its annual tech and data showcase from March to January this year to show off its ad targeting and measurement chops in time for the upfronts.

Delta is collecting first-party data as a cornerstone of its pandemic recovery plan by rolling out free Wi-Fi through the airline’s SkyMiles membership program.

Privacy is one of the most pressing issues facing the online advertising industry – and antagonizing lawmakers who already don’t have the highest opinion of the online advertising industry could be a dicey strategy.

Team Whistle says TikTok’s programmatic ad offerings pale in comparison to YouTube’s more robust, Google-supported ad platform. But while YouTube Shorts’ new revenue share and creator funds can offer meaningful revenue, Team Whistle prefers the predictability of sponsored content.

The big one is here, as The Big Story examines the DOJ’s suit against Google for anticompetitive practices. Also: The IAB pulls no punches in its criticisms of Apple.

The Department of Justice wants to break up Google’s ad tech stack. But how would separating Google’s publisher technology into a standalone entity affect the ad ecosystem? There are pros and cons.

Disney bumped up its annual Tech & Data Showcase to January this year to prove it has what it takes to compete for streaming dollars during the upfronts with an ad-supported Disney+.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Better Sorry Than Safe Twitter is partnering with DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science on brand safety. Gotta do something to woo back its advertisers. “Through custom-built solutions for Twitter’s feed environment, these tests have shown that more than 99% of measured impressions appeared […]

Most data clean rooms pitch themselves as being interoperable – except for the biggest ones. And this leads to confusion. Whereas independent data clean rooms focus on interoperability, walled garden ad platforms have very little interest in it. And walled garden-based clean rooms are where the money goes, namely, Google’s Ads Data Hub (ADH), the Amazon […]

Ready, set … sue. On Tuesday, the antitrust division of the Department of Justice formally sued Google over its alleged (ahem) monopolization of the digital advertising market.

Independent performance agency Tinuiti is making a bigger push into social with the acquisition of growth marketing shop Ampush on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, Boathouse launched a product called Narrative Transformation through partnerships with consumer and market intelligence platforms Signal AI and NetBase Quid. The tool helps brands “cut through the clutter, get to the 10 or 15 most important conversations and give actionable insights,” said Boathouse President Peter Prodromou.

The digital commerce agency Blue Wheel and ecommerce marketplace agency Retail Bloom announced their merger on Tuesday. Founded in the metro Detroit area in 2011 and 2015, respectively, Blue Wheel and Retail Bloom will unite under the Blue Wheel banner going forward.

Are retail media networks overhyped? “It’s a very fair question,” says Ali Miller, Instacart’s VP of product management for ads. The answer is yes and no. Yes, companies are jumping on the RMN bandwagon – but it’s not hype, as long as retail media can prove its value.

Disney will expand Hulu’s ad targeting capabilities to the Disney+ ad-supported tier. And speaking of ads, Disney is prioritizing its programmatic tech stack to stay ahead of competition for streaming ad dollars during this year’s upfronts.

Whereas brands and DSPs are whittling down the number of supply paths they use to purchase ad inventory, publishers are financially incentivized to work with as many partners as possible. But there are changes afoot that could alter the economics for publishers.

Tired in 2022: Growth at all costs. Wired in 2023: Realistic ad tech valuations. A return to Earth for ad tech and martech valuations is a good thing, says Conor McKenna, a partner at LUMA.

Ad security company Confiant claims it has identified an ongoing cookie-stuffing scheme allegedly perpetrated by Dataly Media, an affiliate marketing platform based in Ecuador. The purported cookie-stuffing practices date back to at least 2015 and underpin a large part of the company’s affiliate marketing business conducted since that time, according to Confiant.

Netflix reported its first earnings on Thursday since launching ads late last year. The results? AVOD seems to have helped grow Netflix’s profitability in the short term. The streamer reported 7.7 million net new subscribers in Q4, a 4% year-over-year increase in paid memberships, which boosted quarterly revenue by 2%. But it was a good […]

Pinterest is launching a new data clean room with LiveRamp to help drive incremental sales, with Albertsons onboarding as the first advertiser to pilot the tech.

You are not experiencing déjà vu. The CNIL, France’s data protection authority, did indeed issue three separate fines – all to do with consent or the lack thereof – over the course of less than two weeks.

The food and snack maker Danone consolidated its video ad buying within the GroupM-owned agency Wavemaker and Google’s DSP, DV360, to control for frequency.

In 2020, UK-based advertising trade org ISBA and PwC found that publishers receive just 51% of ad spend and that 15% of ad spend can’t be attributed at all. The ISBA and PwC’s second programmatic transparency study, fortunately, shows ad tech and agency buyers have gotten the message.

Signal loss calls for the use of, well, other signals. AdTheorent has a new tool that uses machine learning and seed data to score programmatic inventory based on the likelihood that an impression will lead to a conversion.

Clean rooms are all the rage – everybody’s talking about them. But even the most sophisticated brands are early in the test-and-learn phase, and mega-platforms with their own data clean rooms, including Google, Amazon and Meta, see the opportunity as well.

Video software platform JW Player acquired InPlayer, a provider of subscription, transaction and identity management solutions for video publishers and broadcasters, on Tuesday.

Roughly one-third of the US population has a direct connection to the military. And yet many brands “still struggle to authentically connect with this key demographic,” says Mark Harper, GM of military and defense at Recurrent Ventures.

QR codes went from zero to hero during the pandemic. But are people still using QR codes as much now that the pandemic is under control? Bit.ly CEO Toby Gabriner weighs in.

Belgium’s data protection authority announced on Thursday that it has approved IAB Europe’s action plan, a six-month overhaul of the TCF, which was deemed illegal by the Belgian agency in February. But, a bit like in a triple-jump competition, this first hop only gets IAB Europe a small part of the distance it needs to travel.

Ahead of her appearance at AdExchanger’s Industry Preview on February 7, Samantha Lim, SVP of gaming strategy for Publicis Media, talks the growth of intrinsic in-game ad inventory and the next steps for in-game programmatic.