Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bean Counter A split between two state privacy laws in Maine shows how more data-driven businesses – not just Silicon Valley giants – are invested in the nuances of privacy standards and how consumer data can be used (or not). Lobbyists at the […]
This isn’t another article about the death of third-party cookies.
Cookies are false precision and they always have been. Conversations about cookies and what advertisers are going to do when they’re gone are missing the point. It’s a distraction.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Can’t Spell “Brain Drain” Without AIs Silicon Valley giants bet the house on machine learning software to automate their businesses, and bringing that same automation to advertisers. Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft execs used the word “AI” more than 200 times in investor calls […]
CTV advertisers still don’t know much about what content they’re running against, other than the fact it’s on the big screen. And they’ve had enough of it already. Buyers’ lack of visibility into which network, program or distribution channel their ads are served is almost enough to wish for the good old days of program guides.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Advertising Amazon Amazon is a top-10 global ad business, and it’s been able to achieve that status without doing all the things that platforms typically do to butter up the guys with the budget (feting advertisers with open bars and hosting glitzy, star-studded events). […]
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. […]
Big-name independent ad tech heavyweights are picking up sticks and heading to the walled gardens. It might be safer there. Former IAB Tech Lab CEO Dennis Buchheim, who announced his resignation late last week, is heading over to Facebook as VP of advertising ecosystem, AdExchanger has learned. He’ll be starting in early summer. Buchheim’s job […]
Neal Richter, who spent two years as Rakuten Marketing CTO, is headed to SpotX as the company’s first ever chief scientist. Richter is one of the early tech leaders in programmatic, helping to develop all three openRTB specs released by the IAB, as well as online ad authorization industry initiatives like Ads.txt and Sellers.json. As […]
RTB whiz Neal Richter is the new CTO at Rakuten Marketing, the marketing solutions subsidiary of Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten. Richter, who serves as a technical adviser to a number of ad tech startups, including Metamarkets and nToggle, joins the company after more than seven years with Rubicon Project, most recently as CTO. At Rakuten, […]
The industry has made striking advanced in tracking the value and attributes of biddable online ad inventory, but the road ahead is long. That much was clear at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Ad Operations summit in New York. In a discussion of inventory packaging and pricing, Neal Richter, chief scientist at Rubicon Project, and Art Schram, VP of Glam […]
