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BuzzFeed hopes its investments in trendy tech like generative AI and short-form vertical video, with a bigger focus on commerce, will eventually pay dividends.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Currents Of Currency In January, a group of US broadcasters formed a joint industry committee, fronted by OpenAP, to work on new video currency standards. On Monday, the JIC published its first guidelines. The “first pass” on these guidelines establishes a baseline between […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Artificial Ads Advertisers can use AI to generate entire TV commercials. Wait, what? Spectrum Reach launched an AI tool on Wednesday that clients can use to input basic company information (name and location), select the desired tone for the commercial and choose one […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Dot Dot Dot – Dash Dash Dash – Dot Dot Dot Dotdash Meredith is feeling the same pain as many others amid a pullback in advertising. And IAC’s revenue woes were compounded by soft consumer demand, which dinged its affiliate marketing business, according […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Crushin’ It Because Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard is still in the air, the Candy Crush owner didn’t host an earnings call. But Activision Blizzard did share a Q4 earnings summary, which included some revealing nuggets about what it takes for ad-supported […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Let The Search Begin The long-dormant search category is rousing. Microsoft recently invested $10 billion in OpenAI, maker of machine learning content creation software DALL-E (for images) and ChatGPT (for text responses), with plans to test ChatGPT’s returns for Bing searches. Meanwhile, Amazon […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Battle Lines Drawn The online advertising industry is struggling with its own brand perception. Nomenclature like “fingerprinting” doesn’t help, and over the past few years programmatic has been caught up in a vortex of negative opinions. Terms such as “surveillance capitalism” and even […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The One-Stop Shop Shopify is loath to earn ad dollars, but fills a valuable niche as a payment data supplier for Google, Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and Pinterest.  Although Google and Meta have their own first-party payment data strategies (see: Facebook and Instagram Shops, […]