smart TVs

How a hacker cost Binance $6 billion; The NYT sees a slowdown in its (sizable) ad revenue growth; and opting out of smart TV tracking doesn’t always work.

NBCU will be taking over FreeWheel; Instacart is for sale (and DoorDash is interested); and is your smart TV listening to you?

ChatGPT launches its latest iteration of ads; retail giant AliExpress expands its partnership with YouTube; and people are making their smart TVs less smart.

Amid the reeling following cookie deprecation, industry pundits are also sounding the alarm over the viability of IP addresses as an actionable identifier. But when it comes to streaming media advertising and monetization, which is largely underpinned by IPs, there’s still more good news than bad, writes Andre Swanston, SVP of Media & Entertainment Vertical at TransUnion.

It makes perfect sense for TV manufacturers to break into advertising. But what about content and software-first companies considering the legacy biz? There are pros and cons to the move, but it all comes down to a profitable plan because “a better go-to-market strategy will crush better technology every time,” said GroupM’s global president of business intelligence Brian Wieser.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Reach This LG, Samsung and Vizio all love bragging about their respective reach. But the trio does agree that smart TVs can unlock the scale and addressability marketers need to reach consumers with television ads. Over half of US households own a smart TV. […]

To help advertisers reach specific audiences in ad-supported video, Samsung Ads built a predictive campaign planning tool for connected TV. Audience Advisor is an analytics tool that uses Samsung’s own first-party data, combined with third-party data, to give brands and agencies a view into how much time specific audiences are spending viewing AVOD, as well […]