Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Can You Talk The Tok? With TikTok, it’s like the clone wars. (We’re looking at you, Reels and Shorts.) But TikTok has a special power, which is its seemingly limitless feed of quick, infinitely swipeable, likable, shareable videos. Reproducing TikTok’s success is no […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Yahoo? Yahoo has taken a 25% stake in Taboola as part of a 30-year exclusive ad deal (uhh … pardon?) that makes Taboola the primary native inventory seller for Yahoo’s media properties, The New York Times reports. The announcement leaves questions hanging. A […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Hasbros And The Have-Nots Companies like Netflix, Roku, Apple, Amazon and Paramount are thirsting for recognizable brands they can build a content universe around. Media franchises provide a solution. Because, apparently, people will settle for only franchises and nothing new, ever again. […]
As BuzzFeed struggles with advertiser uncertainty and a drop in user engagement, it reported flat Q3 ad revenue. Advertising revenue was $50 million, matching last year’s Q3. Ad revenue growth decelerated compared to Q2, “driven by ongoing price compression and uncertainty around consumer demand,” said BuzzFeed CFO Felicia DellaFortuna.
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. All Of A Twitter Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition must be near, because Musk is sounding like the real-world owner of Twitter and not a troll trying to harm the business. “There has been much speculation about why I bought Twitter and what I […]
Meta reported $27.2 billion in ad revenue in its Q3 earnings report on Wednesday. That represents a 4% drop year-over-year (YoY). Net income for Q3 was $4.4 billion, down 52% YoY. And Meta is projecting another revenue dip for Q4. As a result, the company will implement layoffs and hiring freezes throughout 2023.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Marvelous Marketing Disney and Target are a bellwether case study for how deeply interwoven major enterprise marketing partnerships can be nowadays. In 2019, Target and Disney announced an advertising attribution product based on the Google Cloud Platform to attribute retail sales to TV […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Has Apple Fallen Far From The Tree? Apple is quietly pitching major agencies on ad opportunities for its Apple TV original content, Digiday reports. Rumors have swirled for the past year that Apple is taking semi-tentative steps to develop its own DSP and […]
A new campaign from Bombay Sapphire, which launched on Wednesday with spokesperson and “Elvis” director Baz Luhrmann, combines influencer-led social media interactions with the goal of building a loyal customer base that’s (hopefully) willing to share personal information. Bombay Sapphire is looking to generate the kind of lift in brand awareness and affinity that can lead users to intentionally opt into future promotional efforts.
