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From a data-fueled TV upfronts to recent changes in streaming pricing, ad load and bundles, the TV industry is making progress under pressure. Plus: Google’s third-party cookieless plan and new AI features.

In Q1 2024, Chrome will deprecate cookies for 1% of a randomly selected group of Chrome users and slowly expand deprecation to more users throughout the year.

Andrew Mok, CMO of car-sharing company Turo, explains how Turo taps into data to create a “specific, one-to-one experience” for each customer.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hot For Hulu Comcast is preparing to sell its 33% stake of Hulu to Disney. Disney CEO Bob Iger told investors last week that Comcast and Disney were in talks about Hulu’s fate. On Tuesday, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts confirmed “it’s more likely […]

In addition to buy-side integrations, content curation, proprietary ad formats and flexible pricing models are also helping set SSPs apart.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. “The DDL Difference” The TV industry says addressability is the future. But there’s more to the picture. This upfront season, Warner Bros. Discovery is combining its addressable and data-driven linear (DDL) tech stacks. These offerings were previously separate prior to the merge of […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Prompt And Search-umstance Google is ramping up its AI capabilities for its flagship search product, The Drum reports. During its Google I/O developer conference on Wednesday, the company announced it’s launching Search Labs, an experimental program aimed at expanding AI search functionality. The […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Reeling In The Green Meta reel-y wants to monetize Reels. (Sorry, had to.) Now that the company has abandoned its metaverse plans, it’s getting back to its bread and butter: advertising. The platform is testing a new performance-based pay model for Ads on […]

Zitron argues that the internet is being ruined by the Big Tech players that control it and that advertising needs to lose its sense of entitlement over everyone’s data.

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. The LUMA Escape LUMA Partners – the investment bank of ad tech, essentially – is having a major fracture.  Brian Andersen, a co-founder and partner, along with partners Mark Greenbaum and Dick Filippini, are all exiting over a disagreement with co-founder and CEO […]

Freddie Liversidge, HP’s global head of media, explains the benefits and challenges of building an in-house digital media agency from the ground up.

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem… We recently began the search to find a new artist who can bring our ad tech-inspired ideas to life – and were deluged with outrageously talented applicants. We whittled down the list to a small handful of finalists, who will be taking over the AdExchanger […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Stores Of Value From regional chains to the largest department and grocery stores, seemingly every retailer is in the retail media network business.  Retail ad spend forecasts have leapt to $25 billion and more. Except those numbers mostly track Amazon’s growth, plus a […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Browser Bowsers A decades-long truce among browser operators – Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome – is dissolving as Google and Microsoft militarize their platform borderlands. Last year, Google introduced a one-click button for Windows devices that set Chrome as the […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The All-In Risk The natural state for digital media monetization isn’t 100% advertising or all subscriptions, but some balance of both. The Athletic couldn’t get by on subscriptions alone, and BuzzFeed News died on the ad-only vine. But media companies are now creating […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Layser Focused Stephanie Layser, former News Corp VP of ad tech, data and identity products, joined Amazon Web Services a year ago as global head of publisher ad tech solutions. And she just recorded a podcast with Marketecture about what she’s been up […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Can’t Spell “Brain Drain” Without AIs Silicon Valley giants bet the house on machine learning software to automate their businesses, and bringing that same automation to advertisers.  Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft execs used the word “AI” more than 200 times in investor calls […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Audiences Worth Waiting For Criteo announced the “next phase of its integration with Shopify,” which is an update to its Shopify App Store. It’s not news that’ll set the world on fire, but Criteo maintains a drumbeat of Shopify integrations. Criteo’s Shopify merchant […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Retail Wagging The Dog Retail media networks are advertising businesses. Usually. Sort of. For many retailers, the data-driven ad practice serves different purposes. Lowe’s announced new digital products for contractors and other professionals, reports Retail Dive.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Currency Contest Can the TV industry’s currency debate get any hotter? (For something so in the weeds, that is.) Guess so. Nielsen has formally repudiated the broadcaster-backed joint industry committee’s (JIC) video standards agreement. In a letter to OpenAP, the data vendor behind […]

While a number of companies have already made a name for themselves in the data clean room category, it has become clear that no single solution, or even a single data clean room model, will emerge as the industry standard.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Black And Blue Twitter has removed blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts as promised, as in accounts that don’t subscribe to the new $8-per-month Twitter Blue program. The rollout has, of course, been a botched job.  Some celeb accounts, including Lebron James, Stephen […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Purity Test Independent ad tech companies – namely, The Trade Desk and Magnite – have taken their first awkward steps across the exchange with products that bridge directly to publishers (in TTD’s case) and right to agencies (in the case of Magnite).  This […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Europe? More Like ‘You’re Out’ In 2018, a handful of American ad tech startups abandoned the EU when their services became (more likely than not) verboten. Drawbridge, for instance, left Europe when it became clear that regulators had cross-device graphs in their crosshairs. […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Missing Link Instagram now lets users link to multiple external sites from their bio page.  Sounds minor, but it’s a concession creators have begged for from virtually every social platform for years. In fact, TechCrunch reports, Instagram is only loosening the policy […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. We don’t like to boast, but we did a thing: AdExchanger just won regional gold, silver and bronze awards for our editorial coverage at the 2023 Azbee Awards. Check it out, and sincere thanks to our readers! Still Searching Googlers were in “panic” […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Aim At The Heart, Hit The Stomach When New York added digital screens to subway cars, Seamless and other food delivery services were natural advertisers, often showcasing food-related content or recipes. But those were actual recipes. The new digital out-of-home subway trend is […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Better Safe Than Sorry  Brands are nervous about misinformation, especially as generative AI tools make it relatively easy to create convincing fake images, audio files and videos. General Mills is teaming up with verification company Zefr to measure misinformation around its social media […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Go Big Or Go Home Apple, Amazon and Google (via YouTube) are now presumptive leaders for major sports broadcast deals.  Apple snapped up Major League Soccer and Major League Baseball rights last year, while Amazon and Google had National Football League coups.  These […]