Perion

ChatGPT’s initial ad rollout didn’t come as a surprise. Now, advertisers are figuring out how to make the most of this new channel.

Broadsign may actually be building a platform that will make an attractive acquisition target down the road. And one of the major cross-platform Big Tech players feels like the most likely buyer.

Since the Trump administration first threatened a 25% increase in import tariffs on Canadian goods in February, The Great White North’s sentiment towards its southern neighbor has been decidedly less neighborly.

Marketing On Autopilot Companies that build AI-powered marketing software have been framing the technology as a friendly helper. Nothing to fear here, just an eager “copilot” ready to serve. The AI “copilot” that first comes to mind for most people is Microsoft’s generative AI chatbot of the same name. GitHub, meanwhile, which is owned by […]

Laptop fans can rest a little easier. A network of well-known MFA sites operated by Perion-owned Content IQ have been taken offline.

The practice involves monetizing resold subdomains jammed with recycled MFA articles produced by notorious content farms.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Sandboxers In The Ring The Trade Desk is saying farewell to the Chrome Privacy Sandbox, and it’s firing parting shots on the way out. In its view, the APIs in the Privacy Sandbox will devalue open internet advertising, while Google’s ad tech business […]

One emerging alternative to the use of third-party cookies is predictive modeling that optimizes targeting using privacy-compliant data signals, such as weather and time of day. Mercedes-Benz recently worked with Merkley + Partners to test this type of cookieless targeting solution against both cookie-based targeting and contextual targeting.

Max Joseph, the filmmaker and producer of “Catfish,” an MTV reality show that exposes people who lie about themselves online, is helping Israel-based monetization platform Perion promote its cookieless targeting product, called SORT, with a satirical short film that highlights the perils of data collection on the internet and the great lengths one would have to go to in order to avoid it completely.

Ad tech might not be as sexy a buy as it was just a few short years ago, but that didn’t stop Israeli performance advertising company Perion from buying American ad net Undertone on Tuesday for up to $180 million in cash. Of that sum, $91 million is payable at closing and the remaining $89 […]

It’s not a case of déjà vu – Israeli performance player Perion has completed its purchase of MakeMeReach, a Paris-based company that specializes in using social networks to monetize apps. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal, revealed Wednesday, comes less than a week after Marin Software bought French social advertising player SocialMoov for just north of $20 million. [In […]