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Amazon touts its Marketing Cloud, but buyers have concerns; OpenAI’s ad biz may face challenges; and in-chat shopping isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Contextually relevant pause ads were just one of three new formats that Amazon unveiled in advance of its upfronts presentation on Monday.

TikTok announced this week that it would allow search advertising to be targeted by keyword. Plus, streaming ad supply now outpaces demand.

The US v. Google antitrust trial is over, but nobody’s done with the drama. Plus, Charter just struck a deal with NBCUniversal.

Winners and losers are emerging from the streaming melee. (Or at least the winenrs are.) Plus, CNN will begin testing metered content.

M&A is still hot in ad tech this summer. Plus, Netflix’s upfront results may sound promising, but the streamer still needs to grasp the finer points of the advertising game.

The Chrome Privacy Sandbox team is stuck within a Catch-22. Plus, why haven’t media buyers bought more into alternative currencies?

In today’s newsletter: Shoppable TV needs a better reason to exist; Disney+ will roll out password-sharing bans worldwide this summer; and “Bluey” is a huge hit, but Disney doesn’t make much from it.

AdExchanger will lift the hood on the hottest topics in CTV live onstage at the inaugural CTV Connect event in New York City on March 13 and March 14.

In today’s newsletter: Dotdash Meredith CEO Neil Vogel dishes on the news biz; Freevee might soon exit stage left; Fubo sues Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery to block their planned sports streaming service.

Prime Video is playing with ads now, making it the latest entrant to the AVOD streaming wars. Consumers and advertisers have mixed feelings about the new ad offering.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What’s In Store? Netflix’s latest effort to push ads onto subscribers is – you guessed it – a retail bundle. The company is piloting a new package deal with French retailer Carrefour, Bloomberg reports. Customers in the French cities of Bordeaux and Rouen […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. AdExchanger is taking the day off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Our daily news roundup will return on Tues., Jan. 16. The Clean Slate Disney has been talking up its data clean room at CES. It now has 140 demand customers, and […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pod Patrol The CTV ad experience is a hot topic at CES this week. Streamers and brands are exploring interactive ad units, while platforms are still trying to determine the optimal streaming ad load. But no matter how advertisers prefer to engage viewers, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pod One Out Podcast advertising is in a tough spot. Although ad sellers are cautiously optimistic about 2024, as more listeners tune in and programmatic audio grows (albeit slowly), podcast advertising overall has been stuck in first gear for years, Digiday reports. What […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Can You Hear Me Now? Consumers wary about targeted ads are convinced their devices are eavesdropping on their conversations. Most marketers insist that’s not the case, and their use of other targeting signals has gotten so sophisticated that it just feels like your […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Nessie Lives The FTC is accusing Amazon of using Project Nessie, a secret algorithm, to fix prices in its favor and monopolize the retail market, Ars Technica reports. Amazon matched discount prices from rivals, spurring other retailers to slash their prices, too. This […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Snap Decision All sorts of non-advertising companies have recently launched ad businesses – and vice versa. Companies that rely heavily on ad revenue, including Meta, Twitter and Snap, want to diversify their one-pillar businesses. But diversifying an ad business is much harder than the […]

Programmers like free ad-supported TV channels because they’re an onramp to bring more viewers into ad-supported video-on-demand environments.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Two Become One Viant may buy MediaMath, knitting together the pair of well-known DSPs, Digiday reports. MediaMath is an OG player that sprang up back in 2007 and was once valued at $1 billion. But it’s been on the market for a long […]

The latest weapon in the streaming wars is HBO’s “House of the Dragon.” But behind the glamour of this high-profile project, the bean counters are busy cutting costs, as streaming services rationalize after the pandemic. Plus: the lowdown on the latest privacy lawsuit against Oracle.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Née AppNexus AT&T is reportedly in a rush to offload Xandr because the company is “losing tens of millions” of dollars per year, Axios reports. Xandr, formerly AppNexus, has been “grossly mismanaged” by AT&T, and InMobi is in talks to pick up the company […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ahead Of The Game Facebook was the designated beneficiary earlier this week when Microsoft gave up on the video game streaming platform Mixer, diverting its traffic and accounts to Facebook Gaming. But the big winner here could be Twitch. Mixer lured popular streamers with […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Movie Night (On The Couch) TV networks hope nostalgia will win over home-bound viewers. NBCU launched a franchise last week called “Stay-In Theater,” simulcasting family movies across its family of networks. NBCU will cut national commercial time for the broadcast from 35 minutes to […]