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The UK-based ad marketplace announced an additional $1.25 million in funding to supplement its $3 million Series A round, with the goal of attaining profitability.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Video Jockeys The Trade Desk publicly adopted the IAB Tech Lab’s new video protocols, which create more specificity around the type of online video ads being bought, Adweek reports. The news worried some publishers who run low-quality videos, like easily ignored spots or […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Google’s Pub Crawl Ads.txt was created to identify and help prevent fraud or non-transparent dealings in programmatic. But ads.txt also helps to quantify Google’s ad tech footprint.  Of the top one million sites that carry the ads.txt spec and are tracked by Well-Known, an […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. AMPed Up And AMPed Out Last year, Google changed its search algorithm to take its thumb off the scale for AMP pages.  Accelerated Mobile Pages are a plague on web publishers. Although they promise somewhat better site-loading times, historically, all they really do […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Swiftly Goes The Retail Long Tail The retail media startup Swiftly raised $100 million, on top of $20 million raised since 2019. It’s an eye-popping number, despite no valuation, and will cheer other retail advertising startups that hope smaller chains can seize the […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Blown AMP Publishers are pulling the plug on Google AMP. Vox and BuzzFeed (and other titles within their portfolios) are testing or considering testing their own mobile optimization pages, which they expect to generate at least 20% more revenue than Google AMP pages […]

Leaf Group CEO Sean Moriarty talked to AdExchanger about why the publisher made ecommerce central to its brand philosophy, its efforts to change its perception in the digital publishing sphere and what the future holds for the publisher as part of Graham Holdings’ larger portfolio.

Ad management solutions provider Freestar announced Wednesday that it acquired UK-based Google AMP monetization company Triple13. Terms of the deal were not made public. However, in a conversation with AdExchanger, Freestar CEO Kurt Donnell disclosed that the deal was fully funded from Freestar’s balance sheet. Freestar will be adding all 15 of Triple13’s employees to […]

Blocklists are still a big problem for publishers, says Scott Gatz, CEO and founder of LGBTQ publisher Q.Digital. Way back in 2019, Gatz wrote a provocative column for AdExchanger with the headline, “Marketers, Do You Know What’s On Your Block Lists?” Unfortunately, the answer to that question is still … no. “I really wish I […]

Google AMP was supposed to help publishers deal with slow-loading mobile web pages and boost consumption of articles on phones when it rolled out almost three years ago. But publishers such as The Daily Beast aren’t seeing that promised increase in traffic on AMP to justify the lagging monetization they experience on AMP. The Daily […]

Google is sticking with the script of “openness” in its publisher roadmap, citing a flurry of product updates designed to maximize publisher revenue, access to inventory and the user experience on mobile. There is an uptick in publishers, including USA Today Network, The New York Times and Time Inc., that are structuring direct deals programmatically, Google […]

Google has been actively pushing AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) since it launched last year. The company prioritizes AMP in the news carousel (increasing search traffic) and AMP pages are also showing up as regular search results, not just news searches. But AMP still has a way to go. In pursuing speed, the open-source project limits […]

The claim that Facebook Instant Articles is about a faster user experience is a red herring. While that may be one goal, the program has a strong business rationale: It extends Facebook’s walled garden and creates a new foothold for its $1 billion Facebook Audience Network ad platform. Instant Articles does not allow third-party monetization. […]

Why did Google “democratize” dynamic allocation within its ad server on Wednesday to include external demand? Google addressed its rapid response to the rise of header bidding for broader exchange and publisher partners Thursday – and other developments – at AdExchanger’s PROGRAMMATIC.IO in San Francisco. “I find it interesting that this is the fastest time-to-market […]

Google is less than two weeks away from releasing its Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) into the wild. The AMP program will move out of its test phase and begin displaying the mobile-optimized content pages in its search results before the end of the month, and possibly as early as next week, according to AdExchanger sources. […]