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Why DoubleVerify is acquiring Scibids. Plus: How the ascent of YouTube TV has led CTV advertisers to land premium inventory for a song.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Visionary, Vision Is Scary CMO tenures are shrinking. Confidence in CMO decision-making is down. Yet the demands on the CMO are expanding and growing more difficult.  “To add insult to injury, we’ve seen an overall lack of … competence, perhaps?” writes Chris Gadek, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. CMax, LOL Criteo reported earnings on Wednesday. It wasn’t a blockbuster – gross revenue ticked down from $495 million in Q2 2022 to $469 million this year – but Criteo clawed back to about even in terms of profitability after dipping into the […]

Premium YouTube TV inventory, including tentpole live sports, is finding its way down to general DV360 CTV auction campaigns, and is clearing at major CPM discounts compared to the direct deal rates.

YouTube is very much in the hot seat. However, let’s zoom out and consider all of the different media companies and platforms that are doling out “grab bags” of video inventory.

Publishers aren’t just off-setting losses with direct-sold programmatic; they’re unlocking the 70% of consumers brands can’t reach in the open marketplace.  

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. From The Ashes? When MediaMath’s defunct assets go up for auction in Delaware bankruptcy court next week, founder and one-time CEO Joe Zawadzki may be in the mix. Zawadzki wants to buy and revive the demand-side platform he founded in 2007 … and […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Snappy Comeback In 2021, when Apple announced ATT, Snapchat Co-Founder and CEO Evan Spiegel said he was “happy to see [Apple] making the right decision for their customers.” Fast-forward a couple of years, and Spiegel is less glowing about ATT, which severely […]

Investors on Alphabet’s Q2 earnings call appeared satisfied that YouTube and the ads business in general are back on track. Their attention, unsurprisingly, turned to the potential opportunities for generative AI.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. On The Spot Spotify added 10 million subscribers since last year, bringing its total to 220 million paid users. Most streaming TV services would hire a troupe of trumpeters to announce that news. For Spotify, though, it isn’t enough to assure investors of […]

For Joe & The Juice, the best marketing blend Includes AI, as it learned by partnering with Pixis for mobile app install campaigns.

Political advertising restrictions are among the challenges that direct marketing agency MissionWired helps its progressive nonprofits and political campaign clients tackle.

Discrepancies across the various attempts to quantify the issue with YouTube TrueView have just raised more questions about measurement failures.

Playground XYZ announced today that its Attention Intelligence Platform is now compatible with YouTube ads.

In a wildly exciting and inventive sector, YouTube is merely meeting the status quo – with scope for so much more.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pour One Out For Pub Tech During the heady days of gonzo social traffic and zero-dollar interest rates, publishers were launching their own software businesses. But that cottage industry has practically disappeared without so much as a whimper. Vox Media, one of the […]

Roughly three years after the Schrems II case invalidated Privacy Shield overnight – and with it the legal basis for data transfers between Europe and the US – the European Commission adopted its “adequacy decision” for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trading Up “Investors had gotten away from an industry they used to love, but the fundamentals are still there when you consider what percent of global ad spend is bought programmatically today versus what will be programmatic five or 10 years from now.”  […]

The more time the marketplace has to evaluate the Privacy Sandbox – and, particularly, the Topics platform – the worse those platforms will look.

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It’s only fitting that YouTube, which has long coveted TV’s ad dollars and advertisers, should find out what it feels like to be treated as if it were TV.

Bank-Erupted The private equity firm and empty LLCs schlepping MediaMath through its bankruptcy process face a new class-action suit brought by former employees over alleged labor violations. Justin Adler-Swanberg, until recently MediaMath’s director of product strategy in charge of marketplace quality and compliance, is the named plaintiff. The filing says roughly 200 MediaMath employees who […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Caught Thread-Handed Tech companies rarely credit competitors when they copycat a feature or product.  When Mark Zuckerberg published the first Instagram Stories post in 2016, he avoided citing Snapchat, although the term “Stories” itself is a blatant ripoff. When YouTube and Instagram unashamedly […]

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Off Topic The ad industry isn’t sold on the Topics API, which becomes widely available in Chrome’s update July 12. The Topics API is “slightly less creepy than storing every last behavioral detail about someone centrally,” Luke Regan, UK managing partner at performance […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Voyage Of Discovery Newspaper publisher Gannett is suing Google for alleged ad tech monopolization. Google, of course, disputes the charge. Dan Taylor, VP of Google Ads, tells The Wall Street Journal Google will “show the court how our advertising products benefit publishers […]

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.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rain or Shine Magna nudged its global ad spend forecast downward in its latest report, released over the weekend, but you can save the drama for your llama. The slide only amounts to a 0.2% drop.  Magna expects that ad revenue will grow […]

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

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Split Decision The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, charged Google’s digital ad business with antitrust violations on Wednesday, CNBC reports. After a nearly two-year investigation, the commission found that Google’s end-to-end ad platform violates EU antitrust law. It pointed […]