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Turns out it’s actually better to ask for permission than for forgiveness, at least when it comes to privacy compliance in Europe. Apple and Meta are living proof.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ad Nauseam Launching an advertising business is almost always trickier than it might seem on the surface. Beyond the mechanics of ad serving, verification and measurement, introducing ads complicates a business model in unexpected ways.  Take Netflix, which launched ads, like, a minute […]

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Shake-Up At Nielsen Nielsen just can’t catch a break. First, Nielsen lost its MRC accreditation. Now the company is undergoing a massive reorg – and some industry folks are worried Nielsen might miss a very important deadline. Nielsen’s revamped measurement platform, Nielsen ONE, […]

The European Commission just left Meta a lump of coal in its stocking. On Monday, European regulators charged Meta with antitrust violations for “distorting competition in the markets for online classified ads,” including through unfair access to advertising data pulled from its competitors. Specifically, the commission issued what’s known as a “statement of objections,” which […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Untangling Web2 From Web3 Which Web2 social platforms are driving Web3 growth?  It turns out there’s “an interesting inversion” happening, according to a blog by Antonio García Martinez, co-founder of Web3 attribution company Spindl. Web3 companies get huge value from Twitter, whereas Google […]

The most commonly cited rationale for publisher staffing cuts has been marketers’ hesitance to spend on advertising amid persistent economic uncertainty. But publishers’ latest pivot to video and increased competition among digital channels is also likely to blame.

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 […]

Back in 2018, Tim Cook said, “The truth is, we could make a ton of money if we monetized our customer—if our customer was our product.” Fast-forward to 2022, and, to deliver the most relevant Apple Search Ads, the company uses “information a customer includes in their Apple ID account” for ad targeting purposes. If that isn’t monetizing your customers, what is, writes Uriah Av-Ron, partner and founder at Oasis Public Relations.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. That’s A Wrapped This week once again saw social timelines taken over by Spotify Wrapped, the audio service’s year-end user roundup of the most-played music and podcasts. In addition to highlighting Spotify’s first-party data, Wrapped has become the company’s most effective marketing tool, […]

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Meta had a rocky third quarter and the market reacted accordingly. Its metaverse division, Reality Labs, lost nearly $3.7 billion. But the metaverse (whatever that ends up meaning) is still five to 10 years out, and Nicola Mendelsohn, VP of Meta’s global business group, told AdExchanger that Meta is still investing heavily in its core, including ad performance.

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Between Amazon blocking beer ads during NFL Thursday Night Football and Meta’s newly introduced restrictions on pharmaceutical advertising, marketers are running into all sorts of unexpected (and perhaps anti-competitive) obstacles. Dan Meehan, Founder and CEO at PadSquad, offers suggestions for marketing around these restrictions.

The Facebook advertising platform has been beset by glitches and miscues all year. But advertisers who hoped that the bugginess would sort itself out by the holiday season are only discovering coal in their stockings.

Musk’s promises to overhaul Twitter’s content moderation and user verification policies have caused brands and agencies to rethink their budgetary commitments to the platform. Plus, Musk’s seemingly disingenuous tone shift on advertising and his tweeting of fake news may make brands more inclined to pull budgets from a platform that was never seen as a must-buy anyway.

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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. Drop Til You Shop Livestream shopping is a big sales channel in China, but the trend hasn’t been successful in the US (not yet, at least). American retailers and major store brands aren’t waiting, though. On Tuesday, Walmart introduced Walmart Creator, a program […]

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Media planning is evolving in the lead-up to the midterm elections. Geotargeted CTV campaigns are winning over local media placements. Plus: Is Meta the new AOL? The argument for and against a behemoth’s slow decline.

Meta has many pots on the boil right now, and for good reason. The advertising industry is bubbling like a pan of oil. Meta has announced major new initiatives to support the metaverse (natch), AI, brand safety and suitability controls and third-party verification for the feed, automated ad products, business messaging, privacy-enhancing technologies, creator tools […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. At What Point Do We Reference Myspace? Meta faces an existential crisis. It was a trillion-dollar company one year ago and is now worth a mere $370 billion. “Mere” is relative – that’s still big. But this is a make-or-break moment for Meta. CNBC […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Unfluential  Meta claims to have taken down a Chinese political influence operation that used fake accounts to agitate and misinform Americans. The China-backed ring of accounts focused on hot-button issues, such as gun control and abortion, from both sides. This was about China […]

Data clean rooms are to 2022 what customer data platforms were to 2019: Everyone’s talking about them, but people don’t necessarily know what they’re talking about. One reason for the uncertainty is that there are no standards that define exactly what a clean room is or how it should operate. “There are a lot of […]

How will the high-stakes game of antitrust chicken between Google and the US Department of Justice play out? It could be a first important proactive step toward true structural change – not just at Google but across many of the biggest players in the industry, writes Arnaud Créput, CEO of Equativ.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Drizl Before The Storm New retail media players raise difficult questions about particular use cases.  The latest platform, for instance, is Drizly Ads, launched by the Uber-owned alcohol delivery company. On the one hand, booze brands need to find online customers. Targeting […]

Ecommerce momentum has tailed off since last year, but global ecommerce and retail media still have plenty of room for growth, according to GroupM’s 2022 Ecommerce and Retail Media Forecast. Total global retail media spend will hit $160 billion by 2027, which represents a 60% growth rate over five years, GroupM predicts.