The NewFronts, digital video’s week of splashy sales pitches, is in full swing. Our reporters share what they learned on the ground. Plus: What can ad tech learn from Data, a new off-Broadway play?
Brands allocating a sizable chunk of their marketing budgets outside of Google and Meta achieve the best customer acquisition costs, proving that diversification is a performance strategy.
YouTube is finally delivering on the promise of shoppable CTV ads. Starting Thursday, they’ll roll out to all of Google’s Performance Max and Demand Gen campaigns, YouTube confirmed to AdExchanger.
For years, interactive CTV advertising was the star of industry demos – promising, flashy and mostly theoretical. In 2025, they finally made the leap from proof of concept to practice.
Viewers aren’t just watching streaming content anymore; they’re living in it. And while they’re streaming, they’re telling us something important about how they want to experience advertising. They want to do more than watch; they want to engage.
To QR or not to QR, that is the question. But here’s a better one: Shouldn’t TV studios first guarantee that the products featured in made-for-TV shoppable moments are ones viewers actually want?
While Reddit’s ad business is ascendent, it’s still working on a strategy for getting the most out of its generative AI deals.
Perplexity AI, the generative AI search engine trying to out-Google Google, began rolling out its ads products last week. Plus, An AI-powered shoppable ad platform is causing problems for readers of BuzzFeed Australia.
Shoppable TV ads may encourage sales, but they lack the measurement and performance benchmarks advertisers expect. Buyers must create their own benchmarks – and can only do so by actually testing these new ad units, including with their upfront budgets, says Mike Fisher, executive director of investment innovation at GroupM US.
To better service clients – and help with its own bottom line – Havas Media Network is pushing into specialty services.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Don’t Look For Me The FTC isn’t slowing its crackdown on location data brokers. On Thursday, it issued a complaint against InMarket for failing to obtain informed consent from users on its own apps and third-party apps that use InMarket’s SDK before collecting […]
Viewers might want to watch trashy shows from time to time, but they certainly don’t want to watch trashy ads. For the solution to what ails CTV, the industry could turn to another rapidly growing marketing favorite: retail media.
Roku announced two new ad formats to help brands get in front of both ad-free viewers in addition to people streaming with ads. The new formats are interactive, and will be shoppable where applicable later this year.
Startup Telly announced it’s giving away 500,000 smart TVs completely for free to the first 500,000 folks who sign up on its website. Signups for the TVs include an agreement that customer data can be used for targeted advertising.
NBTV is part of a growing trend of content studios producing long-form sponsored video for advertisers. Its channel Spirits Network works directly with brands on sponsored video content with shoppable ads that highlight specific spirits and liquor products on-screen and link directly to an ecommerce page and checkout option.
Television does drive sales lift, although the impact usually isn’t immediate. Broadcasters have been trying to change that for a long time. Until recently, however, the reality of shoppable TV has lagged far behind the idea. Publishers are busy exploring interactive TV ad formats, from QR codes to clickable overlays – but are advertisers buying in?
Netflix is joining the AVOD squad at an industry-wide inflection point. Despite exploding consumer and ad revenue growth, CTV also still has growing pains (you know, like the ad overload plaguing the viewing experience). But with a strong market presence – and “extremely attractive first-party data” – Netflix could help CTV turn the corner, writes Chris Keune, VP of data science and product at Kargo.
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Corbin de Rubertis, head of innovation at Meredith. The pandemic accelerated many consumer trends that were already in motion, including the collapse of the traditional funnel and the proliferation of ecommerce experiences in mobile apps, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Fuel On The Fire Amazon Publisher Services (APS), the company’s supply-side advertising technology unit, is in talks with broadcast and streaming app publishers about Amazon taking over inventory sales on other OTT platforms, including Android TV, PlayStation, Xbox and Apple TV, The Wall Street […]
