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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Ad-Supported Bird Gets The Worm Free-to-play reigns supreme in the mobile game market. Angry Birds, a mobile gaming OG that found early success using paid downloads, is now putting all its eggs into the ad-supported basket, Ars Technica reports. Rovio had already […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Artificial Ads Advertisers can use AI to generate entire TV commercials. Wait, what? Spectrum Reach launched an AI tool on Wednesday that clients can use to input basic company information (name and location), select the desired tone for the commercial and choose one […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bing Chat Is … Weird Microsoft’s AI-enabled Bing search is making waves for all the wrong reasons.  In early tests, the new Bing produced unhinged results that ranged from an aggressive know-it-all who’s constantly wrong to a jilted lover … to a robot […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The round-up will return Tuesday, February 21, in observance of the Presidents’ Day holiday. Thanks, George and Abe, for the long weekend! The Clone Wars Every few months, social platforms align on a shiny new object … that’s really just another version of […]

Hey! This is James Hercher, AdExchanger’s senior editor and commerce industry beat reporter. Welcome to the inaugural dispatch of AdExchanger’s Commerce Newsletter.

Yahoo pulling the plug on its SSP demonstrates how difficult it’s become for supply-side platforms to prove their value in a commoditized marketplace.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Dot Dot Dot – Dash Dash Dash – Dot Dot Dot Dotdash Meredith is feeling the same pain as many others amid a pullback in advertising. And IAC’s revenue woes were compounded by soft consumer demand, which dinged its affiliate marketing business, according […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Crushin’ It Because Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard is still in the air, the Candy Crush owner didn’t host an earnings call. But Activision Blizzard did share a Q4 earnings summary, which included some revealing nuggets about what it takes for ad-supported […]

Arete Research’s Richard Kramer and Rocco Strauss predicted a reckoning in the year ahead for companies that depend on digital ad revenue, which they expect to decline by 5% to as much as 10% in 2023, thanks to “demand destruction.”

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Sign Of The Times The New York Times beat expectations for Q4 2022 thanks to a strong subscription bundling push, according to its earnings report. But digital ad revenue was only up a smidge. The Times added 240,000 net digital subscribers in […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Retargeting A Sale Criteo, a stalwart of independent ad tech, is shopping its business to potential buyers, Reuters reports.  No deal is imminent, and this isn’t the first time Criteo has tested the waters. In 2021, Criteo went through a sale review but […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Heads In The Clouds Amazon Advertising and AWS are bolstering one another in pursuit of marketing budgets, Digiday reports. Both Amazon and Google have deeply intertwined their advertising and cloud businesses via clean rooms, which provide an advertising service built on cloud-based privacy […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. New Topic, Please Google recently published its latest quarterly progress report to the CMA, the UK’s antitrust regulator, regarding its Chrome Privacy Sandbox proposals – and there are several notable updates from last quarter. For one, Google is considering page-level metadata for the Topics […]

Team Whistle says TikTok’s programmatic ad offerings pale in comparison to YouTube’s more robust, Google-supported ad platform. But while YouTube Shorts’ new revenue share and creator funds can offer meaningful revenue, Team Whistle prefers the predictability of sponsored content.

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Battle Lines Drawn The online advertising industry is struggling with its own brand perception. Nomenclature like “fingerprinting” doesn’t help, and over the past few years programmatic has been caught up in a vortex of negative opinions. Terms such as “surveillance capitalism” and even […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trade Punches In 2016, The Trade Desk cracked open the DSP market by sticking with agencies. DSPs such as Turn and TubeMogul attempted to go brand-direct but were dropped by agencies and AppNexus, the top dog DSP at the time, refashioned itself as […]

Ready, set … sue. On Tuesday, the antitrust division of the Department of Justice formally sued Google over its alleged (ahem) monopolization of the digital advertising market.

In the two years since the beginning of the end of third-party cookies, we have learned quite a lot about the promises and problems with a post-cookie web. Now, as web developers, we can be pretty confident the end will come – if we can make a few key things happen, writes Don Marti, VP of Ecosystem Innovation at CafeMedia.

When faced with a recession, brands should focus on fundamental changes that save money and drive efficiency while seeking ways to get more out of their data, technology and ad spend, writes Nancy Marzouk, CEO and founder of MediaWallah.

If CNAME access and third-party cookies go away, identity companies – and most of their clients and partners – are going to get hurt, and badly, writes Kevin Mullen, chief product officer at Roq.ad.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. AdExchanger’s daily news round-up will return on Tuesday, January 17. We will not be publishing any content on Monday, January 16, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Nonhuman Capital Is AI the new intern? For one agency, the answer is “yes.” […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Say “Nein” To Sharing The German Cartel Office, Germany’s antitrust regulator, says Google’s data processing policies violate the country’s digital competition law. Germany’s antitrust regulations go further than the EU’s Digital Markets Act to prohibit data from being shared internally by large companies […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Reach For The Stars The Trade Desk announced a new product, called Galileo, that consolidates the company’s existing first-party data solutions. The free-to-use hub includes data clean room services, onboarding and identity plug-ins for Unified ID 2.0. In an interview with Adweek, TTD […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The One-Stop Shop Shopify is loath to earn ad dollars, but fills a valuable niche as a payment data supplier for Google, Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and Pinterest.  Although Google and Meta have their own first-party payment data strategies (see: Facebook and Instagram Shops, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ad Nauseam Launching an advertising business is almost always trickier than it might seem on the surface. Beyond the mechanics of ad serving, verification and measurement, introducing ads complicates a business model in unexpected ways.  Take Netflix, which launched ads, like, a minute […]

In 2022, SPO solutions largely revolved around creating direct connections to so-called premium publishers. But machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) also took on a bigger role in SPO this year. And 2022 was the year the ad industry began touting SPO as the solution of choice for sustainability-focused marketers.

The slow dismantling of cookie-based tech had its fingerprints all over our coverage in 2022 (if you’ll excuse the mixed metaphor). Data privacy supplied the drumbeat, from stories about clean rooms to new privacy-forward ad tech products to the rise of retail media (a data safe haven).

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. AdExchanger’s daily news round-up will return in 2023. Enjoy your holiday, and may we all resolve to make fewer cookie jokes in the new year. Of No Account A ProPublica report levels damning criticisms at the Google Display Network.  For one thing, accounts […]

Podcaster adoption of dynamic ad insertion (DAI) increased from less than 50% in 2019 to a whopping 84% in 2021. But for podcasters to get the most value out of DAI, they need an open environment. Using DAI within a walled garden makes it harder to get the full benefit of great innovation, writes Jon Stephenson, Founder and CEO of SoundStack.