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TV ad measurement has seen a lot of positive progress, but it’s still something of … a big fat mess. Luckily for advertisers, TV measurement is nowhere near as messy as it was just 12 months ago, said Kelly Metz, managing director of linear and advanced TV activation at Omnicom Media Group, speaking at AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O conference in New York City this week. Still, buyers aren’t getting the data transparency they say they need in order to make more informed media buys.

TikTok’s content relies heavily on influencers and creators. As prime ad real estate for targeting younger “video native” audiences, TikTok is using its market positioning with brands to capitalize on both the creator marketplace and ecommerce through shoppable video trends, said Melissa Yang, TikTok’s head of ecosystem partnerships, speaking at AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O conference earlier this week.

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

And that’s a wrap. Thanks to everyone who attended AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO digital conference this month. Over six days in October, more than 45 speakers took to the virtual stage (ahem, their sofas and kitchen tables) to drop knowledge bombs, including deep dives on the future of identity in addressable advertising. Here’s your rundown. Focus […]

Day Four of AdExchanger’s Programmatic.IO Digital conference brought the goods with perspectives from up and down the supply chain. There was insight into P&G’s media spending strategy, a deep dive on how The New York Times reconciles ad sales with the buildout of a team, a knowledge drop on how identity infrastructure works – and […]

What do cats, dogs, BOPIS, contextual advertising, in-housing, open web standards, identity graphs and astrology have in common? All I can say is that we covered a lot of ground during Day Two of AdExchanger’s Programmatic.IO digital event on Wednesday. Read on for your recap. (And here’s what we got up to on Day One.) […]

Like the little engine that could, digital and programmatic ad spend will do better than expected in the second half of the year and beyond. According to revised stats from eMarketer, United States digital display spending will grow by almost 10% this year (vs. a prediction over the summer of just 6.2% growth), while overall […]

If you missed the first day of AdExchanger’s Programmatic.IO digital event, here’s a little taste of what happened. The COVID-afflicted investment environment, and why the big platforms are immune Group Nine CEO Ben Lerer – who’s also managing partner of early-stage VC firm Lerer Hippeau – kicked off the show by sharing his views on […]

Group Nine Media, which publishes Thrillist, NowThis, The Dodo, Seeker and PopSugar, unveiled a direct response solution called G9 Direct on Monday at AdExchanger’s Programmatic.IO digital event. G9 Direct lets DTCs tap into Group Nine’s first-party data trove. Those clients can design their own ad creative or let the publisher’s branded content studio Brandshop design […]

Julia Beizer is the chief product officer and global head of digital at Bloomberg Media. She will appear on Day One of AdExchanger’s virtual Programmatic IO conference on Oct. 5. Register to experience her session, along with more than 40 others, at Programmatic.io. As the industry debates the future of digital identity and vendors begin […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Matt Prohaska, principal and CEO at Prohaska Consulting. Matt will present “5 Things You Should Do Now To Get Ready For Our Post-Cookie World” at AdExchanger’s upcoming Programmatic IO conference on Oct. 21. Register to […]

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Sarah Hofstetter is a board member at Campbell Soup Company and president at ecommerce analytics company Profitero. She will appear next month at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO conference, in conversation with Elizabeth Bennett, VP of global ecommerce at Kraft Heinz. Register to hear their session, along with more than 40 others, at Programmatic.io. CPGs and food […]

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

Just because the world is at a standstill doesn’t mean you should be. This week from Monday to Thursday, AdExchanger’s Innovation Labs commences, a free digital conference where you can arm yourself with all the tools to make yourself indispensable. Click here to sign in or to register, if you haven’t done so yet. Each […]

Martin Sorrell went on the attack in a fireside chat with Accenture Interactive senior managing director Glen Hartman. The S4 executive chairman fixated on Accenture’s operating and incentive structure and how much autonomy creative agencies maintained within its network. “Accenture talks about one P&L,” he said during the session at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO New York. […]

Privacy’s growing impact on targeted advertising is creating unprecedented challenges for marketers. One underlying reason contributing to the stress: Marketers feel betrayed by big data, said Andrew Frank, VP distinguished analyst for Gartner. “Big data was supposed to give us this scalable customer intimacy, this ability as marketers to know exactly what to sell to […]

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

Viacom’s Bryson Gordon will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC I/O New York conference on Oct. 15 and 16. Around five years ago, advanced TV was still “a science experiment,” said Bryson Gordon, Viacom’s EVP of advanced advertising. But during this year’s upfront cycle, data-driven buying through Vantage, Viacom’s advanced advertising platform, more than doubled. “Marketers […]

The Big Story is a breezy new podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. The complexity of digital advertising means it revolves around trust. At the same time, everyone has to make money. That basic tension leads to […]

Martin Sorrell is bullish on Amazon. The platform will eventually reach $100 billion in ad spend, Sorrell, the CEO of S4 Capital and former WPP honcho, predicted Tuesday at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO in New York City. He did not mention a timeline. In Amazon’s Q3 earnings in July, the company said it brought in $2.5 […]

Jay Seideman will present on programmatic best practices at AdExchanger’s upcoming Programmatic IO New York conference on Oct. 15-16. AT&T’s new advertising and analytics unit, Xandr, is capturing the headlines and Amazon is on its way to making the duopoly a trio – but don’t count out Oath. The Verizon-owned digital media company is avidly […]

Facebook’s decision to shut off partner categories and turn down the spigot of data flowing into and out of its platform may be a necessary step to comply with GDPR and improve consumer privacy. But Facebook could’ve given partners more notice, rather than wait until two months before GDPR goes into effect, said Arun Kumar, […]

Oscar Garza, EVP of media activation at Essence, will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming Programmatic IO conference on April 10-11 at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco. Brands concerned about brand safety, transparency and media budget control are sweetening to the idea of taking programmatic in-house. But marketers often don’t realize there’s a lot more to programmatic than […]

Elgin Thompson, managing director of Digital Capital Advisors, will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming Programmatic IO conference on April 10-11 at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco. The passion of Wall Street’s 2013-era love affair with ad tech may have cooled, but investment banker Elgin Thompson expects the industry will produce some noteworthy exits yet. “I […]

Advertisers, agencies and publishers agree that the bar for better data quality has never been higher. Yet the quality of many third-party data sets is questionable, and advertisers don’t always know what they’re getting when they purchase it. Here’s how Anheuser-Busch InBev, Publicis agency Spark Foundry and the publisher Condé Nast are all vetting data […]

Sometimes, it can feel to B2B marketers like programmatic technology just wasn’t built for them – but the B2B guys are starting to successfully retrofit programmatic to meet their particular needs. Hewlett Packard Enterprise, for example, and its agency Digitas wanted to use programmatic to power the brand’s account-based marketing strategy and reach key decision-makers within […]

Brands, agencies, publishers and vendors agree that while the industry is rife with ad quality issues, programmatic isn’t the culprit. “Programmatic is not the problem,” said Shaune Kolber, programmatic creative and ad fraud manager at Dell, at AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O conference in New York City on Thursday. “It’s a way of buying. It’s not supposed […]

Mindshare Chief Data Officer Rolf Olsen and Oleg Korenfeld, EVP of ad tech and platforms at Spark Foundry, will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC I/O New York conference on Oct. 25-26 in a presentation titled “Data Accuracy and the DMP.” Partnering with a data management platform doesn’t count as a data strategy, said Rolf Olsen, […]