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Third-party cookies are going away and Google is restricting ID sharing. What does this mean for Google’s suite of advertising IDs and the advertisers and publishers that rely on them for monetization? It’s one of the most consequential questions for the world of online advertising, but nobody has a clear answer. Google operates two different […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Let’s Review Big tech companies are going under the microscope for some of their smaller, long-ago acquisitions. The FTC said it would conduct a review of deals that have been approved, particularly targeting low-cap deals that provided vast power in the market. And last […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Empire Strikes Back Amazon Prime smashed brick-and-mortar retail with a combination of price discounts, speedy shipping guarantees and a raft of other benefits, with the biggest being the Prime Video streaming service. Now Walmart plans to launch a paid membership service with a focus […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Mark It Down A 2019 report in the Harvard Business Review declared that marketing has lost prominence within the overall business hierarchy, based on US ad expenditures decreasing. Two of its authors revisited the topic in a new article, noting, “Many scholars and practitioners […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Shelf Life Many CPG brands have become iconic through the twin marketing pillars of TV advertising and in-store shopper marketing. The latter includes shelf positioning, aisle displays and end-caps, among other strategies. But linear television is steadily eroding, and access to prime shelf space […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Do Not Merge A group of antitrust economists filed comments on the new DOJ/FTC draft guidelines for vertical mergers, calling the new draft “excessively permissive” for large companies. Historically, antitrust cases focus on horizontal acquisitions, when a company buys a direct competitor. But old […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. License To Bill Google is considering a shift in its relationship with news publishers, by paying them direct licensing fees for the right to publish content in a potential free news service, according to The Wall Street Journal. Caveats: Financial terms of the deals […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hearts & Science & Mar Tech Hearts & Science is launching a mar tech division with more system integrator capabilities. “And in doing so the agency hopes to beat back increased competition from consulting firms offering similar services,” The Wall Street Journal reports. The […]

Political advertising in the United States from 2019 through 2020 will total $6.9 billion, up 63.3% from the last presidential cycle, according to eMarketer’s first political spending forecast published on Wednesday. If electoral budgets do play out as eMarketer forecasts, it will show the enduring hold TV has in the political media world. Television will […]

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Us Too Newly merged ViacomCBS will throw its hat into a crowded ring of streaming services with a new service that spans its whole content portfolio, joining its current OTT vehicle CBS All Access. Nothing is set in stone, but executives are considering an […]

Is the IAB living up to its mandate as the standards maker and voice of the digital ad industry? IAB working group participants, board members and industry insiders voiced their concerns to AdExchanger about how the trade group will navigate issues such as user privacy and platform consolidation. The IAB is the largest and most […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What Will Google Do? Heightened regulatory scrutiny of Google’s ad platform business has sparked an internal discussion about whether to get rid of its ad tech vendor stack (the artist formerly known as DoubleClick), sources tell The Wall Street Journal. “[Federal and state scrutiny] […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Oh The Places You’ll Grow Instagram reportedly brought in about $20 billion in ad revenue last year, more than a quarter of Facebook’s total earnings, Bloomberg reports. Those numbers aren’t confirmed – the sources are anonymous and Facebook doesn’t break out Instagram revenue. But […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Accenture Ends Its Audits Beginning in August 2020, Accenture will no longer provide services around media auditing, benchmarking and agency pitches, Seb Joseph reports for Digiday. In ending its auditing services, Accenture will no longer face a conflict with its media buying services. Writes […]

YouTube drove $15 billion in ad revenue in fiscal 2019, according to Alphabet’s Q4 and FY results, released Monday. Read the release. This is the first time Google has disclosed YouTube’s revenues, which have grown briskly over the past three years – from $8.2 billion in 2017 and $11.2 billion in 2018. Alphabet will now […]

As Google’s new data privacy policies roil the industry, the company’s ad tech and ad network businesses appear to be more open to industry collaboration in response. For instance, Google is coming around to some industry initiatives where it’s been a notable holdout. In spring of 2020, Google will implement Sellers.json, an IAB Tech Lab-backed […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Under The Hood Does the web need more browser engines? The recent trend has been toward browser engine consolidation. Google helped this along by growing Chrome’s market share, but Microsoft gave up on its own web-rendering software and moved to Chromium at the end […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Stalling The Install  Google is changing its search-to-app install campaign measurement starting this month so that iOS installs driven by Google searches will no longer be reported by third-party attribution companies, Ronan Shields reports for Adweek. The change is a forerunner to Google’s eventual […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Randall Rothenberg, CEO at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). Last week Google sent shock waves across the industry when it announced it would phase out third-party cookies for Google Chrome […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Playing With Fire Amazon is “throwing a whole kitchen sink” of inventory at advertisers across Fire TV and its video ad services, according to a sales deck obtained by Digiday. Big picture: Amazon is pitching OTT audiences at scale, which advertisers desperately need. Fire […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Nico Neumann, assistant professor and fellow, Centre for Business Analytics at Melbourne Business School. Last week, Google announced that it would phase out third-party cookies and even provide a solution […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Gareth Davies, co-founder at Truth{set}. Google’s announcement to deprecate the Chrome cookie within two years seals the fate of anonymous behavioral data and its underlying identifiers and technology. The move […]

Google GM and VP of apps, video and display Sissie Hsiao will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming Industry Preview conference in New York on Jan. 28-29, 2020. Google is known for making methodical changes with long roll-out periods. But Sissie Hsiao, who became general manager and VP of Google’s advertising business across apps, video and display in […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. WhatsAds? Facebook is giving up on its plan to introduce ads on WhatsApp. The messaging app recently shut down a team tasked with bringing ads to the platform and deleted the code from its app, The Wall Street Journal reports. Despite unveiling a prototype […]

Ad buyers aren’t thrilled about Google Chrome’s decision to phase out third-party cookies, but they’re thankful it’ll take about two years; Safari and Firefox didn’t extend such a courtesy. During that time, most buyers intend to rebuild their targeting and measurement strategies. But Google’s proposed Privacy Sandbox solution is still too theoretical for there to […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cookie Crumbs Industry trade bodies are not pleased with Google’s bombshell announcement this week that it would phase out support for third-party cookies over the next two years. In an open letter, the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and the American Association of Advertising […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Ari Paparo, CEO at Beeswax. “You finally really did it. You maniacs! You blew it up!” – Charlton Heston, “Planet of the Apes” Personally, I was a skeptic on whether […]

Third-party cookies – the backbone of programmatic advertising – are not long for this world. Google’s Chrome browser will phase them out in two years, according to a Tuesday blog post. Google Chrome is betting that its Privacy Sandbox – the privacy-preserving API first unveiled in August – will over the next two years build […]

Dentsu Aegis Network said Tuesday it has acquired E-Nor, a California-based consulting firm that specializes in Google Analytics and is a major reseller and sales and service partner of Google Marketing Platform. E-Nor and its roughly 45 employees will fold into Cardinal Path, the marketing and analytics consulting group Dentsu acquired in 2016. Cardinal Path […]