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“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media.  Today’s column is written by Eric Picard, chief product officer at Yieldmo. There’s a revolution happening in digital media, primarily driven by a new focus on privacy. Major players at the core of the digital […]

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hold, Please The former Trump administration’s plan to force the sale of TikTok’s US operations to Oracle and Walmart has been put on ice – again. President Biden is reevaluating his predecessor’s efforts to address potential security risks from Chinese tech companies, The Wall […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. GAID-night, Sweet Prince Hear that? It’s the sound of Google getting ready to drop the other shoe. Bloomberg reports that Google is thinking about implementing privacy controls on Android similar to the ones that Apple is close to rolling out on iOS 14. Google […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Brand Safe? With brands and agencies calling on social media platforms to ensure ads aren’t adjacent to harmful content, Facebook announced that it’s building a tool for advertisers to keep their ad placements away from certain topics in its News Feed. Per CNBC, the […]

Apparently IDFA can move stock prices. Although Facebook had a damned good Q4, with ad revenue up more than 30% year-over-year to $28.1 billion – its fastest growth rate in more than two years – the stock fell nearly 4% in after-hours trading. Why? Because the ad targeting-related headwinds that Facebook CFO Dave Wehner has been referring […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Stepping Back So … 2021 is off to a great start. After pro-Trump mobs stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday, advertisers are pulling their paid social advertising and reevaluating their overall ad spend, Digiday reports. Some advertisers paused their paid social just as DC’s […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Avengers Assemble (Please!) Google and the IAB are once again under the EU’s gimlet eye. A group of human rights orgs sent coordinated privacy complaints to regulators on Thursday in six European countries. At issue is whether the practice of real-time bidding is a […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Apple Strikes Back “Dramatic,” “outlandish” and “false” – that’s how Apple SVP Craig Federighi described claims being made by the ad tech industry about Apple’s forthcoming IDFA changes in iOS 14. During a recorded speech at the European Data Protection & Privacy Conference on Tuesday, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Line In The Sand An alliance of digital marketing companies filed a complaint with the UK’s competition authority on Monday calling for the regulator to block Google from implementing the technologies within the Chrome Privacy Sandbox. The sandbox houses Google’s proposals for third-party […]