The Big Story: The New Commerce Reality
Temu is buying its way into the ecommerce business. Plus, reconciling philosophical views on data privacy with a reality that’s more ho-hum and bureaucratic.
Temu is buying its way into the ecommerce business. Plus, reconciling philosophical views on data privacy with a reality that’s more ho-hum and bureaucratic.
Agencies get paid to spend time creating and planning things. So what happens when generative AI tech creates and plans things for them?
Section 230 protects tech platforms, but the Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to the statute. Plus, the latest in the courtroom battle between Kochava and the FTC.
The SSP category is facing some rough times. They’re either going bankrupt (EMX), undergoing layoffs (TripleLift, Magnite) or shuttering (Yahoo). Should we blame SPO?
The big one is here, as The Big Story examines the DOJ’s suit against Google for anticompetitive practices. Also: The IAB pulls no punches in its criticisms of Apple.
Data privacy. Clean rooms. Measurement. Gaming. M&A. Which trends deserved the hype – and which ones didn’t – in 2022? We dig into some of the biggest topics of the year
Brand safety has a hypocrisy problem. Violence that gets a pass when it’s a fictional TV show becomes flagged if it’s part of an online news story. But to what end? Plus: what Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales results portend for retailers’ prospects in Q4 and beyond.
Facebook’s ad platform is still misfiring and ad buyers are resorting to desperate measures, including a pay-for-access fee scheme that led to the firing of multiple Meta employees. Plus: It’s ad tech earnings week … and the category isn’t doing too hot.
Data clean rooms and regulation could be topics on The Big Story any week this year. But despite the tsunami of news coverage on both topics, each remains largely unknown or misunderstood.
There’s a storm brewing and wildfires are raging. We’re not talking about hurricane season or climate change, though, but rather the fallout for ad tech from the macroeconomic downturn and privacy lawsuits, including the FTC’s recent complaint against Kochava which challenges the programmatic data-selling model writ large.