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On Monday, UK programmatic buying company MiQ acquired SaaS compliance platform Grasp. Grasp will continue to operate as a standalone unit.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Making An Impression Starting early next year, Google AdSense publishers will see their payouts switch from a per click metric to per impression, the first change to its revenue sharing model in 20 years.  Paying per impression is the industry standard for how […]

Integral Ad Science (IAS) had a healthy Q3, with revenues increasing 19% YOY to $120.3 million. And shares jumped by about 5% after earnings.

As Omnicom’s $835 million acquisition of commerce specialists Flywheel Digital attests, commerce media is flush. Then, why the most sophisticated and data-rich programmatic marketers are intrigued by custom algorithms.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Heads Will Roll CEO Kirk McDonald is out at GroupM North America, Insider reports. WPP’s revenue growth tumbled in the US this year, which the company blamed on tech clients curtailing their ad spend. GroupM North America has fared particularly poorly, putting GroupM, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Another Cookie Delay? The third-party cookie might receive another stay of execution – and this time it wouldn’t be Google pushing the deadline. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) reiterated that Google won’t be allowed to kill cookies next year unless the […]

What happens when a Big Tech CEO gets on an earnings call these days? They talk about AI. AI will be Meta’s “biggest investment area” in 2024, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors during the company’s Q3 earnings call.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The ‘Post-Social’ Web The writing is on the wall: Big Tech is breaking up with news, and the traffic publishers used to rely on from search and social media isn’t coming back any time soon. Last week, Google cut about 40 positions from […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. For Reels? Meta is struggling to convince advertisers that Reels can be a valuable marketing channel, The Information reports. Since Reels is more of a branding play, it doesn’t fit neatly within the broader Facebook and Instagram flywheel, which primarily centers on direct […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rare Wares TV inventory is on track to become an even scarcer resource. US television (linear and streaming combined) will likely lose almost a quarter of its ad inventory volume over the next four years, according to media prognosticator Brian Wieser, writing at […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Not Buying It There’s been a burst of reports about new subscription-based, ad-free social media products. (Looking at you, Facebook.) It’s easy for these announcements to get caught up in trends like the pivot to subscriptions or revenue diversification.  But it is not […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Ad-tagonists Joshua Lowcock, a longtime leader at agency UM Worldwide, where he most recently served as global chief media officer, exited on Friday. His departure comes only a few weeks after UM’s chief privacy and responsibility officer, Arielle Garcia, left the agency, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ghosts In The Machine The rise of machine-learning-powered ad products from Google and Meta is changing the performance marketer’s job from a hybrid creative tactician, media hound and command pilot to, well, someone who just feeds data, text prompts and raw creative assets […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Demand More Google has started its global rollout of Demand Gen, a machine-learning ad product launched in beta over the summer. Demand Gen is akin to Performance Max, Google’s most prominent machine learning-based ad product … which is a euphemistic way to say […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pushing Forty TikTok is pushing hard for adoption of its on-platform shopping product, particularly in North America.  Last month, it introduced a major Shopify backend integration, which lets brands plug influencers as affiliates and includes a payment system so users can buy without […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Nessie Lives The FTC is accusing Amazon of using Project Nessie, a secret algorithm, to fix prices in its favor and monopolize the retail market, Ars Technica reports. Amazon matched discount prices from rivals, spurring other retailers to slash their prices, too. This […]

Meta is starting the process of rolling out three of the AI-powered tools that it’s been incubating within its AI Sandbox so advertisers can implement them for ad campaigns.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Is Free Social A ZIRP? Social media is free. Well, it’s supposed to be, anyway. That’s the point. All your friends join, it’s free fun, and rather than paying money you get served with ads.  But that could change. On Monday, Android Authority […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Apple’s Bite Apple will now let paid subscription apps (think The Economist or meditation app Calm) offer audio content exclusively for their subscribers, a trendy tactic in Podcast Land. Spotify has a similar idea, but it partners with the subscription service Patreon. And […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Snap Decision All sorts of non-advertising companies have recently launched ad businesses – and vice versa. Companies that rely heavily on ad revenue, including Meta, Twitter and Snap, want to diversify their one-pillar businesses. But diversifying an ad business is much harder than the […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Buy, Build Or Borrow? When should brands in-house their media and when should they turn to an agency? Marketing consultant Alex Greifeld posts about this conundrum in her newsletter, No Best Practices. While practically every major brand needs advertising services in some way, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trade And Trade-Offs Tech regulation proponents in the US Senate traveled to Belgium last month, where they discussed their EU counterparts’ relative success “bringing Big Tech to heel,” The Information reports. Paul Tang, a Dutch parliamentary rep, said Americans test issues in protracted […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rage Against The ML Google and Meta are all-in on machine-learning-based ad products that assign creative and optimization controls to the platform. But tools like Google’s Performance Max and Meta’s Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns have been rushed onstage – and they’re not ready for […]

Digital media and television have been playing by different sets of rules due to the nature of ad delivery and tracking. But these worlds are slowly colliding.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Price Of Admission The discovery process for Google’s federal antitrust trial is already yielding some painful admissions when it comes to reinforcing the industry’s suspicions about Google. Jerry Dischler, VP of Google’s ads business, testified Monday that Google tweaks its search ad […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Disney’s Carriage Ride Disney and Charter resolved their cable carriage dispute on Monday, re-upping Disney-owned networks (namely, ESPN) to Charter’s 15 million subscribers. As part of the deal, Charter’s most popular cable package will include access to the ad-supported tiers of Disney+ and […]

YouTube is now a rival to TV networks. Yet many networks still post their content to the platform via friendly licensing agreements. In the current war for viewer attention, this is a potentially crippling move.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pulling The Strings  Disney-owned TV channels went dark on Charter Spectrum last week when the two companies failed to reach an agreement on a new carriage pact, Variety reports. The blackout affected over 25 networks, including ESPN. It was particularly bad timing, too: […]

With 43% of Roblox’s users under 13 and about 70% 18 and under, Roblox must pay attention to legislation and policy around advertising to children. But it would be a total head-scratcher for Roblox to pivot its ad business to focus on over-18 audiences.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Two Kinds Of ECGs The TV industry is riled up over Nielsen’s plans to incorporate Amazon’s streaming data in time for the next season of Thursday Night Football. On Wednesday, the ratings giant responded to the letter the Video Advertising Bureau (VAB) sent […]