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The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is coming to the European Union. But rest assured – it will have implications for United States brands, too. The DMA will implement a clear set of rules prohibiting tech giants, including Google, Meta, Amazon and Apple, from engaging in specific practices that might be viewed as “anti-competitive.” While it seems that the act aims to create a fair playing field, the actual outcomes may be more nuanced, writes Chris Comstock, chief product officer of Claravine.

Meta lost in court against French ad-tech champion Criteo, and it will now have to grant better access to its inventory. Meanwhile, France’s data protection watchdog, the CNIL, just deemed Google Analytics illegal – a move that the Italian data privacy authority has just followed as well. What happens now? It turns out there may be a server-side solution, writes Hugo Loriot, partner at fifty-five.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Get The Net Netflix isn’t just vetting third-party vendors for its pre-launch ad business (though it is vetting vendors, to be clear).  The streaming leader is on the hunt for an executive to lead its incubating advertising business, The Wall Street Journal reports.  […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Positive Influence Recession-wary brands are redirecting ad spend away from Google Search and Facebook and toward influencer marketing, Marketing Brew reports. Influencer marketing is more effective than other media channels right now, according to Junior Pence, CMO of Peace Out, a skincare brand […]

Steve Webb, the former global head of Facebook’s Audience Network, has joined Unity Technologies as VP of revenue for ads under its Operate division. Webb’s first day was June 13 and he replaces Julie Shumaker, who was elevated to SVP of revenue for Unity’s Create division in October. (Unity, which went public in September 2020, […]

How should brands think about advertising in the metaverse? The question is a little hard to answer when there’s no consensus about what exactly the metaverse is or what it might become

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Shopify Is ‘Just Browsing’ Ads Shopify held its twice-annual road map update event this week. Shopify Editions, as the get-together is called, offered up a handful of tantalizing tidbits for industry observers awaiting news of a consolidated Shopify ad platform.  In May, there […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Get Connected The coveted prizes in programmatic right now are exclusive CTV contracts.  In Cannes, the crème de la crème for handshakers and lunch-takers is Netflix. Google is meeting with Netflix there, Ad Age reports, and is an obvious choice as Netflix purportedly […]

The platforms taketh away – but sometimes regulators can giveth back. Google is seriously flirting with the idea of reopening YouTube inventory to appease European regulators and Criteo just won its 2019 case against Meta over being booted from the Facebook Marketing Partner program.

CreativeX will use the funds to broaden its offering beyond its current focus on providing feedback on social media creatives. The company will also launch new measurement capabilities, including solutions for rating a campaign’s accessibility and sustainability. And by upgrading its API, marketers can integrate creative data into their existing data lakes more easily.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. So Sue Me One of the myriad sticking points standing in the way of a US federal privacy law is the question of whether people will be able to sue tech companies in open court. Terms of service often stipulate that signatories give […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. WWD-See It To Believe It Ad tech is on tenterhooks waiting for privacy-related news from Apple’s upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference next week. Sandwiched between glitzy announcements about shiny new products and hardware, many expect a momentous mention as to whether Apple will start […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Since You Asked … When the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) asked what tech companies thought of Apple, Meta happily chimed in.  Meta, which has lost billions of dollars due to Apple’s new tracking prompt, says its ability to innovate has been […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Oh, Snap Snap warned investors this week that it will miss its one-month-old revenue target, tumbling shares by more than 40% in what may be a harbinger for the industry, CNBC reports.  “Since we issued guidance on April 21, 2022, the macroeconomic environment has […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Vibe Wars TikTok has launched an ad product called Branded Mission, which identifies potential influencers and puts paid media behind content even if it isn’t part of a campaign.  “Turn top-performing videos into ads,” is how TikTok puts it in a release. […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Shipshape Shop Late last year, Shopify began testing a prospecting product called Shopify Audiences, and it just graduated to a general release.  The product uses Shopify’s “unique perspective on purchasing intent from supporting merchants and their buyers,” according to a release. That’s hardly […]

It’s not surprising that AppTrackingTransparency and the end of third-party cookies on Chrome didn’t come up during the razzle-dazzle of Meta’s NewFronts debut this week. But advertisers have been asking about both a lot, especially for brands focused on commerce.

Facebook marketer Rok Hladnik awoke last Thursday to discover that more than half of the 140 Facebook ad accounts he operates had been randomly turned off. The week before, the campaigns were overspending in the wee hours of the morning, when they should have been dormant. 2021 was the year of the cicada swarms in the US. But the bugs have come for the metaverse this year, apparently.

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Take It To The Max Google has introduced a new targeting parameter for Performance Max campaigns. Soon, all advertisers will be able to use “customer acquisition goals” to guide their campaigns.  Performance Max is less than two years old, but it’s already taking […]

TikTok doesn’t compete with Facebook or Instagram. Neither does Twitter, Pinterest or LinkedIn. Really. At least not according to the Federal Trade Commission in its antitrust complaint against Meta. But excluding TikTok is like a gift for Meta’s lawyers.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Movers And Shakers Did you feel that?  There have been some seismic moves lately in Ad Tech Land – not even counting M&A or privacy rules.  Stephanie Layser, longtime leader of News Corp.’s advertising technology, is taking her talents to the cloud. She […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Take Rate Takeaways The fees collected by intermediaries in the ad supply chain vary widely, according to new research from consulting firm Adalytics. On one extreme, they could leave publishers collecting as little as 2% of a buyer’s bid price, Morning Brew reports.  […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Can You Put A Price On … Price? Google is testing “Higher price” and “Lower price” indicators for shopping searches. Brian Freiesleben, an SEO industry observer and practitioner, spotted the badge in the wild on a $760 fireplace from Home Depot. It was […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. State Of The Unions “Prestige doesn’t pay the bills.” That’s the rallying cry in the editorial offices of several big-name publishers seeing labor organizations form among their workforces. On Tuesday, 350 Condé Nast employees signed a letter requesting recognition of their union, The […]

“The best way for us to deal with this is not to complain, but to partner with the ecosystem,” says Alvin Bowles, Meta’s VP of business ecosystem partnerships. AdExchanger caught up with Bowles to talk about the metaverse, Facebook haters, the $10 billion in revenue set to evaporate due to Apple ATT and the rise of TikTok.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Shrinking Podcastiverse Podcasting has consolidated dramatically, perhaps even unhealthily, in recent years.  Roughly one year ago, the audio market research firm Edison Research conducted a test to see how many podcast networks an advertiser would need to buy from to cover 50% […]

Meta is bringing all of its automated ad products together under a single roof. Meta Advantage, which is what Meta is calling its new suite, may sound like a health plan but is really a home for Meta’s existing automated tools, including lookalike expansion, automated app ads and automatic placements, as well as the future home for other automated products in the works.

Meta announced plans on Thursday to create content-based controls for Feed (formerly News Feed) on Facebook and Instagram. The question is, why did it take so long for Meta to start bringing third-party brand suitability to Feed? After all, the News Feed was one of Facebook’s first products, launched during the long-ago year of 2006.

Integral Ad Science CEO Lisa Utzschneider, Magnite CEO Michael Barrett and DoubleVerify CEO Mark Zagorski talked about their experience heading public companies at AdExchanger’s Industry Preview Tuesday, in a panel moderated by LUMA CEO and founder Terence Kawaja.