On Thursday, French AI start-up Olyzon (pronounced “all eyes on” – more on that in a bit) announced $5 million in additional seed funding led by US-based venture capital firm Cassius Capital.
Good news for the skeptics: 2025 will hopefully be a year of more practical AI use cases for advertising, especially as agencies get more hands-on with the tech.
From clear-eyed looks at the industry’s shortcomings and conflicts of interest to prognostications that presage the next batch of conference panel talking points, you can count on these astute industry voices to drive the conversation.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Demand More Google has started its global rollout of Demand Gen, a machine-learning ad product launched in beta over the summer. Demand Gen is akin to Performance Max, Google’s most prominent machine learning-based ad product … which is a euphemistic way to say […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pubs Crawl Publishers are more selective about ad tech vendors nowadays after suffering through incidents involving sequential liability, Digiday reports. Publishers are more discerning about ad tech but don’t expect much to change following the MediaMath bankruptcy, like the Sizmek bankruptcy before that […]
A significant number of solutions that claim to be cookieless, including unified IDs and cohort-based targeting, still rely on IDs. These solutions will find it extremely difficult to achieve the scalability required to become a true successor to cookie-based advertising.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Prompt And Search-umstance Google is ramping up its AI capabilities for its flagship search product, The Drum reports. During its Google I/O developer conference on Wednesday, the company announced it’s launching Search Labs, an experimental program aimed at expanding AI search functionality. The […]
Geoffroy Martin was promoted to CEO of Ogury. Martin joined as COO a year ago, switching from Criteo to the newer French ad tech startup because he said he’s in tune with Ogury’s focus on planning campaigns without advertising IDs or third-party identity data.
While third-party cookies and other PII-based ad identifiers are going extinct, there are still too many players in the digital advertising ecosystem with their heads in the sand. Those that insist on using the discredited and increasingly rejected “personalized” advertising are naive at best, and arrogant at worst.
Mobile data company Ogury raised $50 million in Series C funding on Thursday with an eye on international expansion and consumer privacy-related R&D. The round, led by existing investor Idinvest Partners, brings the company’s total funding to $92 million over the last six years, and follows a $21 million extension of its Series B in […]
