Solitaire remains a popular mainstay in app-based gaming – and it’s the next frontier for cookieless advertising. Pubfinity, an SSP that places ads in Windows-based desktop game apps like Simple Solitaire, is hitching itself to Epsilon’s cookieless identity solution, Core ID.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Not Kidding Around During the State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Biden called on lawmakers to get cracking on legislation that bans ads targeted at kids. “It’s time to ban targeted advertising to children, [and to] demand tech companies stop collecting personal […]
A new partnership between in-game ad tech company Anzu and NBCUniversal aims to build out the infrastructure for serving in-game ads using programmatic tech by solidifying the connection between brands on the demand side and game developers on the sell side. NBCU will serve as Anzu’s third-party sales partner for the US and UK, combining NBCU’s brand reach with Anzu’s in-game ad inventory.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Of Paramount Importance ViacomCBS became “Paramount” on Wednesday, elevating the name of its core streaming service. Paramount Plus is not even a year old yet (it turns one in March), but its subscriber base totals 32.8 million. The broadcaster netted 9.4 million total new […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Scoring The Super Bowl Viewers watching Super Bowl commercials on Sunday were three times more likely to look up those advertisers online compared to everyday primetime TV, according to search data released Monday morning by EDO. Guess that’s something, considering it costs around $7 […]
When it comes to the massive acquisitions making headlines in the video game industry, the implications run much deeper than what titles gamers can play exclusively on which systems. In Microsoft’s case, we’re talking about a sleeping giant in the ad industry with an incredibly strong subscription-based first-party data operation, Xbox Game Pass, at its disposal.
2021 brought unprecedented consolidation across ad tech. But there’s one particularly striking mini trend that’s emerging: Gaming studios are merging with ad tech platforms, writes Mike Peralta, VP and GM of Marketing Solutions, a division of T-Mobile USA.
You’ve probably heard the term “surveillance advertising” – used with increasing frequency – in reference to companies with an Orwellian agenda to keep tabs on you at all times. See the recently introduced Banning Surveillance Advertising Act. Minus the hyperbole, surveillance advertising is the practice of serving ads to individuals based on their personal information. But […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The “Solid” In Consolidation Are you sick of hearing about M&A already? TOO BAD! We’ve still got multiple deals being announced on the regular. On Wednesday, the publisher services company OpenWeb – known for operating comment sections and targeting ads by user account IDs […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Microsoft Is Not Playing Around Microsoft announced a $69 billion deal for Activision Blizzard, the game developer that owns Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and King, the mobile studio behind Candy Crush, among many other game franchises, The New York Times reports. […]
