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  • The Positives And Negatives Of A Potential Google Ad Tech Breakup

    More competition between SSPs and ad servers should be a boon for publishers in the long term. But publishers will feel some growing pains if there is a sudden disruption in Google’s ad payouts or if their ad server fees increase.

  • Publishers Feel Seen At The Google Ad Tech Antitrust Trial

    Publishers were encouraged to see the DOJ highlight Google’s stranglehold on the ad server market and its attempts to weaken header bidding.

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    Can Meta Thread The Needle Twitter Couldn’t?; The Ad Industry Learns To Cope

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Caught Thread-Handed Tech companies rarely credit competitors when they copycat a feature or product.  When Mark Zuckerberg published the first Instagram Stories post in 2016, he avoided citing Snapchat, although the term “Stories” itself is a blatant ripoff. When YouTube and Instagram unashamedly […]

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    Keep It Confidential; Taking License

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. BetterWatch Out The Federal Trade Commission has no patience for companies that misuse sensitive data. The agency issued a proposed order last week against online therapy service BetterHelp, which allegedly shared consumer health data with Facebook and others for targeted advertising, including prescription […]

  • NBC Grapples With Connected TV Targeting Error; Google's News Revenue

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Paying For Mistakes NBC has notified some brands and agencies that an error led to the wrong advertisers’ videos running on some mobile and connected TV inventory in AdSmart, the broadcaster’s private marketplace product, between March 2018 and March 2019, Digiday reports. Unfortunately it […]