As premium game prices skyrocket and paid subscriptions and cloud-based gaming services take off, marketers sense a chance to defray rising costs with ad revenue – perhaps dispelling some doubts about the value of more ads in games.
In today’s newsletter: Ampla suspends loans to DTC brands, putting their ad budgets at risk; why Sony is investing in IP rather than a streaming platform; and Netflix will move on from Microsoft in favor of in-house ad tech by 2025.
The vast majority of advertisers who buy ads in video games (91%) no longer consider gaming to be an experimental media channel. But ad spend in games still lags behind audience engagement.
In today’s newsletter: Users’ rare anime collections disappear as Sony consolidates Funimation and Crunchyroll; Instagram and Threads stop promoting political content; and why Fortnite is winning the metaverse.
Given the deprecation of third-party cookies and the reemergence of contextual targeting, 2024 could be a big year for in-game ads – so long as game publishers position themselves as a source of premium inventory.
The company’s immediate plans for reinvesting its new capital include hiring more executive leadership to spearhead sales and partnerships, growing its engineering team and expanding its presence in the US and Japan.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Browser Bowsers A decades-long truce among browser operators – Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome – is dissolving as Google and Microsoft militarize their platform borderlands. Last year, Google introduced a one-click button for Windows devices that set Chrome as the […]
In 2022, top players in digital advertising finally started taking gaming seriously, and the groundwork was laid for programmatic in-game advertising to grow thanks to a long overdue update to the IAB’s and MRC’s in-game ad standards. The scene is also set for in-game advertising to expand into console gaming, and we might even see the debut of the first sell-side platform dedicated to gaming.
Brands are starting to look at video games as an inventory source, but there’s no scaled programmatic infrastructure to help aggregate supply in video games. And so that’s where in-game ad platform Bidstack is focusing its road map. “We’re moving toward being a gaming SSP, a pure tech play,” Bidstack Founder and CEO James Draper told AdExchanger.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. OneView, Meet ONE AdExchanger has previously referred to Roku and Nielsen’s relationship as a “strategic accord.” Roku was the first streaming media platform to use Nielsen ratings and has delivered semi-annual doses of good PR to Nielsen during a dismal streak. And when […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ads Vs. Cachet The New York Times isn’t shy about castigating Meta for its central role in the creeptastic-sounding surveillance economy. But NYT is following the Facebook playbook of acquiring cool, ad-free properties, giving them a few months to acclimate, then plugging them […]
Video games can support intrinsic or native in-game ads, as well as ads that are delivered alongside gameplay but exist outside the game itself, like pause-menu display ads and rewarded video. Marketers can also sponsor and advertise on channels related to gaming, such as at esports events and across online streaming platforms, particularly Twitch and YouTube. And we can’t forget about the metaverse.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Shopify Is ‘Just Browsing’ Ads Shopify held its twice-annual road map update event this week. Shopify Editions, as the get-together is called, offered up a handful of tantalizing tidbits for industry observers awaiting news of a consolidated Shopify ad platform. In May, there […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Blood From A Yellowstone Kevin Costner announced a four-part docuseries titled Yellowstone: One-Fifty about Yellowstone National Park, distributed by the right-wing media outlet Fox Nation. So, who cares? It’s only amusing because it shows how powerful a tentpole series can be in this […]
“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 Francesco Petruzzelli, CTO of Bidstack. In a year defined by indoor and solo activities, gaming offered entertainment and social connection for millions of people. Now, one of gaming’s most defining […]
This Isn’t Even My Final Form Will Sony acquire anime streaming service Crunchyroll from AT&T and pair it with its existing service Funimation? According to The Information, the big sticking point keeping that dream from happening is the price: AT&T reportedly wants $1.5 billion. While the initial move to offload Crunchyroll began in May, it […]
Sony Pictures TV thinks there’s power in remaining subscription-free. In the case of its free streaming premium video network Crackle, which clocks 22 million monthly uniques, it promises brand partners a 93% ad completion rate and an engaged audience. Sony Crackle in April staged its first upfront presentation. “Because we see ourselves as a TV […]
AnyClip Media, which helps studios like Universal Studios and Warner Brothers distribute video content, has raised $21 million to beef up its product road map. AnyClip will also hire about 100 people globally this year to support growth in Europe and Asia. It also intends to examine non-organic growth opportunities for companies that fit its […]
Mobile commerce will reach new highs on Black Friday and Cyber Monday this year, and retailers are hastily preparing for the onslaught of traffic those devices will bring. Couple that with the fact that there are 26 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, compared to last year’s 32, and retail marketers are working on compressed campaign […]
