Sundar Pichai

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Curation is the new hot topic, but it’s just another incarnation of bundling. Plus, Google is playing the long game with its US-based antitrust trials.

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 […]

The question isn’t whether Google will fall, but whether its time is near. And, if so, what will finally bring it down?

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Search For A Replacement The Google antitrust trial allows for a great deal of cynical theater. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testifies with, of course, exactly what Microsoft wants from the trial. Sridhar Ramaswamy, former Google search product chief who started an ads-free search engine, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Cost Of Ad-Free(dom) Streaming is getting a lot more expensive. The average cost for major ad-free streaming services has risen nearly 25% over the past year, The Wall Street Journal reports. Case in point: Disney is hiking prices for its ad-free services […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Let The Search Begin The long-dormant search category is rousing. Microsoft recently invested $10 billion in OpenAI, maker of machine learning content creation software DALL-E (for images) and ChatGPT (for text responses), with plans to test ChatGPT’s returns for Bing searches. Meanwhile, Amazon […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Back To The Scoreboard Ad tech is revisiting panels. In some cases, that also means revisiting Nielsen. Amazon Prime, which has exclusive airing rights to the NFL’s “Thursday Night Football,” signed a three-year deal with Nielsen on Tuesday to do audience measurement for […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Stating The Obvious Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey publicly acknowledged for the first time that the platform did play a role in the riot at the US Capitol on Jan. 6 that left five people dead. The admission came during last week’s Senate Judiciary hearing […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Big Grilling Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Sundar Pichai were back for more on Thursday during another Senate Judiciary hearing at which their respective platforms – Facebook, Twitter and Google — were again criticized for anticompetitive practices, misinformation and an array of social problems. […]