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    Is Big Tech Taking AI Too Far?; Fast Fashion Challenges Amazon

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. AI? More Like “Ehh, I Don’t Know About That” Ad platforms are plowing ahead with AI-based software that is not ready to fill roles previously served by human expertise.  That means machine-learning-controlled ad products (Google’s Performance Max and Meta Advantage+ shopping campaigns are the […]

  • First Come, First Served For First-Party Data; The Gray Lady Goes Gangbusters With Games

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Network To Get Work Being called an “ad network” is a major slur for ad tech companies. It implies arbitrage and obfuscation. The Trade Desk and Google butted heads in 2019 over the designation of Google’s exchange bidding (now called Open Bidding) as […]

  • Yieldbot CEO Explains Why He Laid Off One-Third Of Its Employees

    Before Yieldbot CEO Jonathan Mendez laid off one-third of the company’s employees in mid-July, the company had suffered a series of setbacks. With $10 million in funding last year, Yieldbot bet on a header bidding wrapper that didn’t pay off. Instead, AppNexus won the header bidding wrapper wars with Prebid. Then it had a bad […]