Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Detective Work A pox on the ad tech tax. Google is promoting a new tool in its tech suite to help publishers and buyers track the hidden fees getting sucked up by middlemen in the bid stream. Google initially launched its tool, Confirming […]
The alternative ID landscape is incredibly fragmented. So how are publishers – especially long-tail publishers that tend to be strapped for tech resources – supposed to pick the ID solutions that work best for them?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bog Standard TV broadcasters still dispute the basics of how to count an ad impression. This week, a broadcaster-backed joint industry committee published a first pass at standards for video currency providers. Paramount, which is part of the JIC, released a template of […]
Domain blocking, the industry’s go-to approach for demonetizing sites that host pirated content, is set up to fail.
Google’s Performance Max performs – but with a caveat. Marketers can’t control their campaigns and have no say over where their ads run or even, in some cases, what the creative looks like. And flying blind can lead to problems. Plus: Digital media layoffs and a recap of Google Ad Manager’s recent outage.
Google Ad Manager (GAM) was out of commission for about three hours Thursday evening across web, app and video inventory. Any ad placement served through GAM, even ads monetized by a non-Google SSP, went dark, leading to lost revenue for publishers of all sizes at a time when they can least afford to lose out on revenue.
After a five-year run as GM of Comcast-owned video ad tech platform FreeWheel, Dave Clark made the jump to programmatic ad platform TripleLift, which hired him as CEO in October. Clark spoke to AdExchanger about TripleLift’s IPO plans, how close its ambitious CTV ad formats are to market and more.
How will the high-stakes game of antitrust chicken between Google and the US Department of Justice play out? It could be a first important proactive step toward true structural change – not just at Google but across many of the biggest players in the industry, writes Arnaud Créput, CEO of Equativ.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Defining Moments The IAB Tech Lab introduced Seller-Defined Audiences (SDA) in February as a post-cookie, post-ATT option for publishers to create targetable impressions without sending retargetable cookies or device IDs to DSPs. But standardizing contextual data taxonomies can be difficult, and the buy […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Unbeatable You The podcasting business is colliding with vlogging, as popular YouTube accounts and podcast hosts branch out into a hybrid video podcast format. The big winner, of course, is YouTube. One recent report found that YouTube is actually the biggest podcasting […]
