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Apple’s advertising privacy policies (namely iOS 14) have rocked the digital advertising industry for the last year. But in the meantime, Apple’s ad business has seen plenty of growth. Some may view Apple’s recent moves as a means to protect their interests, but it is much more likely that the strategy is for Apple to build a moat around its own burgeoning ad business, writes Ben Dutter, SVP of strategy at Power Digital.

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The state of advertising at Twitter is a hot mess. And advertisers are starting to react. Plus: a primer on the Google Analytics deadline delay and changes to Google’s clean room, Ads Data Hub.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Who Wants To Play Monopsony? This week, a US judge blocked a merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster, two major publishing houses.  You may ask, why is a print publishing merger relevant?  Partly because it’s another example of legacy businesses […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ad Tech? What Ad Tech? One refrain from Google when it defends its third-party ad tech business is that ad tech is a minuscule contributor to Google’s revenue. Which begs the question: Why not get rid of it? But Google won’t quit ad […]

Proctor & Gamble recently announced their support of The Trade Desk’s UID 2.0 identity framework. The partnership is significant for a couple of reasons. First, where P&G goes, other brands will follow. And second, approval hints at the rise of new walled gardens that could become even more powerful than Google and Facebook, writes Nancy Marzouk, CEO and founder of MediaWallah.

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Ad tech saw almost 1,500 M&As between 2020 and 2021. So is this consolidation trend here to stay? It looks like it’s a resounding yes, writes Matthew Papa, SVP of business and corporate development at Captify.

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Google’s ad preference center is ready for prime time. The purpose of My Ad Center, which started rolling out to users on Thursday after first being teased in May, is to serve as a hub for tools that give people control over the ads they see and the data used to target them. “People are […]

Google isn’t bluffing about quitting its third-party cookie habit. That’s because consumer concerns about data privacy and pressure from regulators around the globe have left Google with no choice but to discontinue third-party cookie usage in Chrome, said Dan Taylor, VP of global ads at Google, at AdExchanger Programmatic I/O conference in New York City on Monday.

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For digital media, Scope 3 includes agencies, tech companies and publishers. Everyone in the digital advertising supply chain is equally responsible for its sustainability. That’s why, to successfully sustain it, marketers must connect their efforts to wider corporate goals, use standard certifications and measurements, and prioritize innovations that create a winning, sustainable scenario for everyone, writes Ben Riley, general manager at SeenThis. 

Google Topics is Google’s proposed replacement, which takes us back in time to broad, interest-based segmented targeting. This means brands are about to return to the “bad old days” of marketing, when many audiences all saw the same message. And this one-message-fits-most approach doesn’t fix what’s fundamentally broken in MADTech: the consumer experience, writes Tara DeZao, director of product marketing, MarTech and AdTech, at Pega.

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Brands and publishers can add one more first-party data item to their cookieless testing to-do list. Google built a clean-room-style add-on so brands and publishers with their own customer email lists can match against each other’s audiences. Dubbed Publisher Advertiser Identity Reconciliation, or PAIR, the solution is available Tuesday via Google DV360, its DSP. The […]

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The emergence of large-scale data and identity resolution platforms with audience graphs across devices and households is a major step forward to helping reclaim control over reach and frequency. But there’s no single solution to the problem, writes Seraj Bharwani, chief strategy officer at AcuityAds.

After two years of lost revenues, travel-focused publishers are eager to maximize a post-pandemic recovery. BoardingArea, a publisher network that includes more than 60 travel blogs, isn’t just banking on a return to normal, said its founder Randy Petersen. After weathering the pandemic, BoardingArea is betting on revenue diversification and a revamped programmatic tech stack for its future growth.

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.

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Ecommerce momentum has tailed off since last year, but global ecommerce and retail media still have plenty of room for growth, according to GroupM’s 2022 Ecommerce and Retail Media Forecast. Total global retail media spend will hit $160 billion by 2027, which represents a 60% growth rate over five years, GroupM predicts.

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A federal privacy law is perhaps the only way the digital media industry can stave off Big Tech companies, which are aggressively trying to define privacy on their own terms, writes Jason Bier, general counsel and chief privacy officer at Adstra.

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Managing digital campaigns for the mid-market is hard. Mid-marketers need to consider speed, smarts, scale and spend. But pick three, writes Marilois Snowman, CEO and founder of Mediastruction.

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Chrome Unboxed, which started in 2015 as a YouTube channel for unboxing videos featuring Google’s Chromebook products, is emblematic of the early struggles upstart publishers have in monetizing their content. Its path to ad-supported profitability shows there’s still hope for the little guys in digital media.

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