Google Ad Manager

Sovrn is now offering its header bidding managed service, dubbed Ad Management, as self-serve software for a flat CPM fee.

Publishers were encouraged to see the DOJ highlight Google’s stranglehold on the ad server market and its attempts to weaken header bidding.

Two of the EU’s biggest Big Tech antagonists are set to resign; a GAM breakup could usher in post-ad-server programmatic; and how Google kept Prebid separate from the IAB Tech Lab.

In today’s newsletter: Amazon stands out among Upfronts CTV rookies; Google reveals how much revenue its ad tech divisions make; and women hold more marketing leadership positions than men, but churn is worse for women.

The DOJ published the witness list for its upcoming antitrust trial against Google, and it reads like the online advertising industry’s answer to the Social Register.

Setting price floors can unlock additional revenue. But only by setting the “right” floor for any given impression can you increase and not harm yield.

There are other motivating factors for crossing the LUMAscape, besides increased efficiency and less ad fraud. These businesses are trying to position themselves to win in a transformative era that will make or break many ad tech companies.

In today’s newsletter: The CMA outlines plans to fix competitive concerns in Google’s Privacy Sandbox; media mix modeling’s comeback continues; Snap’s Q1 earnings illustrate its attribution-driven turnaround.

For companies testing the Chrome Privacy Sandbox, another delay was starting to feel inevitable, even before Google shifted its deprecation deadline.

Although Optable participated in the W3C Privacy Sandbox working groups and has been testing Sandbox API integrations for the past eight months, its early access program represents its first foray into running real campaigns.