Open web advertising

The open web is dead; long live the open web. It’s healthy; it’s full of opportunity; it’s doomed; it’s a mess. Also, what even is the open web, and do consumers care about the definition?

After six months of pilot testing with The Trade Desk, Spotify launched its ad exchange on Wednesday and added new supply and demand partners to the mix.

Day three of the Google ad tech-focused antitrust trial in Virginia was like a guided tour of arcane auction mechanics.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Etsy’s Unwinnable Hand Etsy, the handmade and vintage product marketplace, is in a bind. Chinese manufacturers of super-cheap plastic and clothes (namely, Temu and Shein) are hoovering up paid media shopping traffic across the major online funnels (namely, Meta, Google and Apple). So it’s […]

It’s been more than a year since Bloomberg stopped running third-party programmatic display ads on its website – and it was the right move, says Christine Cook, Bloomberg Media’s global CRO.

A few years ago, when the RMN trend was taking off, who would have thought that retailers would fully embrace the walled garden model. But that’s what appears to be happening.

To make it easier for publishers to use its first-party data across a wide network of sites, Vox Media on Tuesday announced a new suite of tools for Concert, its publisher monetization tech, that come from the digital media company’s internal first-party data platform Forte. The new products address brand safety, targeting and optimization. Brands […]