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You are reading AdExchanger Politics, our news roundup in which senior editor James Hercher tracks the latest developments in political advertising, augmenting our political marketing commentary and news coverage. Want it by email? Sign up here.   While everyone in politics is figuring out on the fly how COVID-19 will affect US elections this year, it seems already […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Curb Appeal Google introduced curbside pickup sales for retailers. The tool is in beta, so stores must sign up for Google’s “store pickup” program, run live local inventory ads and have items guaranteed in stock. Stores can still have text saying they offer curbside […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Breaking Bad (Ads) Google blocked 2.7 billion ads from being served last year – more than 5,000 ads per minute – and suspended almost 1 million advertiser accounts for policy violations. Plus 1.2 million publisher accounts were terminated over violations. That’s according to Google’s […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cashing In The new hottest thing on Instagram is … giving away cash. Facebook and Google ads are a slow, expensive way to accrue followers. With cash giveaways, brands acquire hundreds or thousands of new users in one swoop. Influencers provide a list of […]

Alphabet had a surprisingly strong performance in Q1 2020, with revenues up 13% from last year to a total of $41.2 billion, according to the company’s earnings report on Tuesday. YouTube revenue passed $4 billion in Q1, up from $3 billion a year ago. But Google is preparing for a much tougher Q2. “Q1 was […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Google Cuts Google plans to reduce marketing investments for the second half of 2020 by up to half, CNBC reported. A selective hiring freeze has also been imposed for both full-time and contractual employees. “We are reevaluating the pace of our investment plans for […]

Google will require advertisers to submit personal identification or business documents that prove who they are and what country they operate in, the company announced on Thursday. The process will start in the United States and then expand globally, but it will take a few years before the new business verification program is complete, according […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Branding The Game Brands are jumping into Nintendo’s newest Animal Crossing game. Highsnobiety and 100 Thieves are recreating their clothing collections so people can dress up avatars, and even non-apparel brands such as Twitter and Xbox have branded in-game clothing. Getty images lets players […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Third Time’s A Charm Bryan Wiener and Sarah Hofstetter joined the ecommerce software company Profitero as CEO and president, respectively. This is the third business Wiener and Hofstetter have jointly led, following their long tenure at 360i before it was acquired by Dentsu and […]

For the next five months, Google is waiving its Ad Manager ad serving fees for news publishers around the globe, which have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Read the blog post. Many have seen ad revenue fall as national and local advertisers pull back, and as coronavirus-related keyword blocking makes it difficult to […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Unblocked Google and Twitter lifted their bans on coronavirus-related advertising. Twitter will allow marketers to feature their pandemic responses in paid tweets, Ad Age reports. Twitter initially banned COVID terms to forestall misinformation, but now feels that “the messaging that brands and businesses can […]

Sorry, folks. Google isn’t going to extend the deadline for the phase out of third-party cookies in Chrome. In an email sent Thursday afternoon to members of the W3C’s Improving Web Advertising Business Group, Marshall Vale, a Chrome product manager and a member of the group himself, wrote that “a discussion around adjusting timelines is […]

When the second version of IAB Europe’s Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) for GDPR compliance comes out of beta on March 31, it still won’t integrate with Google. But that’s because IAB Europe has decided to give companies until June 30 before the previous version of the TCF is deprecated and TCF 2.0 becomes the […]

The ad tech industry is pressing Google, Facebook and Amazon to offer more flexible payment terms during the economic uncertainty caused by the coronavirus crisis. An industry petition on Change.org, whose author prefers to remain anonymous due to business conflicts, asks Facebook, Google and Amazon to offer more flexible payment terms during this crisis. The […]

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Google’s Ads Data Hub (ADH) started as a pure analytics and measurement service. But Google has been testing audience activation with a beta program for the past six months, according to AdExchanger sources who are in the program. The beta program includes large brands and agencies, and is currently only open to select clients that […]

A business group within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is planning to ask Google to delay the third-party cookie phase out in Chrome in light of the ongoing coronavirus situation. A member of the group told AdExchanger that the plan is to request that Google extend the deadline, which was tight and somewhat tentative […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Latest Contender Fox Corp. didn’t have its own streaming platform, so it used the sale of its stake in Roku to buy Tubi. The $440 million acquisition puts Tubi’s ad-supported streaming platform in direct competition with ViacomCBS’ Pluto TV, Comcast’s Xumu and Sony’s […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Mobile Response People forced into quarantine, isolation or however you want to put it are boosting overall content consumption in the United States. Live television is still down year over year, from three hours and 44 minutes per day to three hours and 27 […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hang On St. Christopher Google’s travel advertising business (along with the travel marketing vertical in general) could be severely disrupted by the impacts of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Spending on travel search ads may drop by $1 billion in Q1 […]

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 […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Champing At The Fitbit Regulators around the world are taking a long look at Google’s proposed $2.1 billion takeover of the wearables company Fitbit. It’s not a typical antitrust situation, because Google doesn’t compete directly with Fitbit and the company isn’t the leader in […]