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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 […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Brand Safe Or Bust  TikTok may offer a curated feed of content that will appease advertisers as brand safety becomes a bigger concern on the platform. The feed of vetted TikTok creators will enable the app to charge advertisers higher rates for guaranteed brand […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bloomberg’s Big Play Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg is set to unload a 60-second ad spot critical of President Donald Trump in the upcoming Super Bowl. The New York Times estimates that the former NYC mayor shelled out $10 million for the privilege, also noting […]

Last decade saw a spate of data broker acquisitions by agency holding companies. But are these deals too focused on owning data, rather than using it to derive insights? “You have to look at broad groups of data to understand consumption,” said Jonathan Nelson, CEO of Omnicom Digital. Rather than purchase a data broker, Omnicom […]

The advertising industry today is largely the product of tremendous M&A activity. AdExchanger looked at the acquisitions that made the biggest impact in the past decade. Impact can mean many things. Some of these startups flourished under their new owners, showing worth far more than their deal price. Others, purchased during their downfall, reflect the […]

Whenever Google moves, people pay attention. Half of the 10 most-trafficked AdExchanger stories in 2019  feature Google, showing how any change Google makes ripples across the industry. Readers were also intrigued by stories of great success and … the opposite. On the former end of the spectrum was an examination of The Trade Desk’s massive […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. This Is Fine France’s competition regulator fined Google $167 million (150 million euros) for unfairly suspending advertisers for placing allegedly deceptive ads. It’s a drop in the bucket for Google, but the regulatory drumbeat is a bigger issue than the fines. Unlike previous fines, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hard Sell Facebook has told advertisers it won’t need to change its web-tracking services to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), on the grounds that its use of data to target ads doesn’t constitute “selling” data. Starting January, when the law comes […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Lucie Laurendon, senior product marketing manager at Smart. Google’s surprising move to a first-price unified auction was met with cautious optimism and doses of skepticism. Dropping last-look advantage in Google Ad Manager’s second-price auction […]

When Facebook, Google or Instagram approve of an engagement-boosting tactic, they usually describe it with positive words, such as “organic” or “authentic.” Tactics they forbid, however – generally unilaterally and sometimes without warning – are characterized as “unnatural” and whoever uses them is a “schemer” or an “offender.” Most news articles covering these guideline changes unquestioningly adopt […]

Ad industry, you can get off your tenterhooks: Google is going to adopt the IAB Tech Lab’s technical specs for compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The specs, which create a US privacy string not dissimilar to the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) developed by IAB Europe in the run up to GDPR, […]

Google’s Display and Video 360 demand-side platform is in a tough fight as offerings from Amazon and The Trade Desk equal or exceed Google’s usage rates, according to Advertiser Perceptions’ quarterly tracking report. The report surveys 314 media executives, split between brands and agencies, about their opinions of the major buying platforms. The report tracks […]