Advertisers’ obsession with “following the audience” allowed low-quality sites and vanity metrics to thrive while brand integrity suffers. But a cultural shift back toward focusing on quality is underway.
OMD Worldwide Chief Media Officer Ben Hovaness, thinks the advertising world might be thinking about the open internet wrong way, right down to the terminology we use to describe it.
While agencies push for more programmatic buying options, publishers want to maintain control in TV ad buying negotiations – and particularly over their “premium” content.
While Google’s Privacy Sandbox remains a subject of industry skepticism, brands are resetting their expectations around first-party data. Next up on the list of solutions agencies are trying is alternative identifiers, such as UID 2.0, ID5, Lotame’s Panorama ID and dozens of others.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Attribution vs. Contribution Ad platform over-attribution is boiling over right now for frustrated marketers. Walled garden platforms aren’t new, but server-side data plugins by Google and Meta, plus the explosion of retail media walled gardens, mean brands might see a dozen platforms claim full […]
Josef Najm, director of programmatic and partnerships at Reuters, has a message for advertisers: Don’t be afraid of journalism.
Retail media is due for a reality check, according to Max Willens of eMarketer/Insider Intelligence. Willens spoke at the Programmatic I/O conference.
AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Social Butterflies Are we entering an era of celebrity-owned social media? That’s the question posed by The Atlantic in light of Kanye West’s recent purchase of Truth Social, a conservative social platform, and Elon Musk’s will-they-won’t-they Twitter drama. Immediate fears are overblown. Truth Social’s user base […]
With a recession looming and even more signal loss on the way, publishers need to experiment to find the best mix of revenue-generating solutions and approaches. Bloomberg’s Julia Beizer, Blavity’s Jeff Nelson and Dotdash Meredith’s Daniel Papalia offered insights into their revenue strategies at AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O event in New York City.
Google isn’t bluffing about quitting its third-party cookie habit. That’s because consumer concerns about data privacy and pressure from regulators around the globe have left Google with no choice but to discontinue third-party cookie usage in Chrome, said Dan Taylor, VP of global ads at Google, at AdExchanger Programmatic I/O conference in New York City on Monday.
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To plan, target and measure media buys on TV, advertisers need to resolve identity at the household level, which calls for full media transparency, said Kelly Metz, managing director of linear and advanced TV activation at Omnicom Media Group. Kelly Metz will be speaking about the future of TV measurement at AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O conference on October 17-18 in New York City. Click here to register.
A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem… Well, the votes are in for AdExchanger’s 2022 comic caption contest – and we’ve got a winner. Congratulations to Paul Gubbins for making us chuckle, and thanks to everyone for submitting and voting. And Paul, we love dad jokes around here, so, well done. […]
To help programmatic ad dollars flow more easily to Black-owned publishers, Procter & Gamble builds multicultural audience segments and shares them with The Trade Desk to power private marketplace deals. “We’re looking at all of the broken pipes within the programmatic ecosystem, and we’re making things along the way that promote inclusivity,” P&G’s Eric Austin told attendees of AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O conference in Las Vegas earlier this week.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. PET Lovers Privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) are the industry’s latest attempt to program privacy compliance into data-driven advertising. But it’s not enough to just hire a vendor and check privacy off your to-do list. “Technology is not a silver bullet – internal governance needs to […]
