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Enthusiasm about video games is surging, but marketing budgets have yet to catch up to the hype. Gaming ad spend is growing, but at a slower rate than other emerging channels.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bog Standard TV broadcasters still dispute the basics of how to count an ad impression. This week, a broadcaster-backed joint industry committee published a first pass at standards for video currency providers. Paramount, which is part of the JIC, released a template of […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pass The DOJ Google faces a DOJ lawsuit that could compel the company to spin out its sell-side ad tech business. But the company isn’t overly concerned about this development, per a conversation between Marketing Brew and Google VP of Global Ads Dan […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Currents Of Currency In January, a group of US broadcasters formed a joint industry committee, fronted by OpenAP, to work on new video currency standards. On Monday, the JIC published its first guidelines. The “first pass” on these guidelines establishes a baseline between […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trade Desk Trade-Offs The investment bank Needham has both the bullish and bearish takes on The Trade Desk after the DSP reported earnings this month. And there is a compelling case in both directions.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Shop ’Til You Drop Instagram will shut down the ability to tag items and direct people to a sale during a livestream, TechCrunch reports. The feature had been available since 2020 and was part of Meta’s overall push into more direct payments after […]

Yahoo pulling the plug on its SSP demonstrates how difficult it’s become for supply-side platforms to prove their value in a commoditized marketplace.

Retail media networks overall still have a ways to go before they’re able to satisfy several basic buy-side demands, including better measurement, more transparency and some form of standardization.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Retargeting A Sale Criteo, a stalwart of independent ad tech, is shopping its business to potential buyers, Reuters reports.  No deal is imminent, and this isn’t the first time Criteo has tested the waters. In 2021, Criteo went through a sale review but […]

When agencies pursue proprietary solutions, they ultimately abandon them for a superior market-based one. So, agencies should focus on producing effective campaigns and leave the tech to the technologists.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trade Punches In 2016, The Trade Desk cracked open the DSP market by sticking with agencies. DSPs such as Turn and TubeMogul attempted to go brand-direct but were dropped by agencies and AppNexus, the top dog DSP at the time, refashioned itself as […]

Whereas brands and DSPs are whittling down the number of supply paths they use to purchase ad inventory, publishers are financially incentivized to work with as many partners as possible. But there are changes afoot that could alter the economics for publishers.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Reach For The Stars The Trade Desk announced a new product, called Galileo, that consolidates the company’s existing first-party data solutions. The free-to-use hub includes data clean room services, onboarding and identity plug-ins for Unified ID 2.0. In an interview with Adweek, TTD […]

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.

While cookies are still in play, publishers are using first-party data products to draw business from advertisers eager to test cookie alternatives, even as ad spending retracts due to persistent fears of an upcoming recession. Here’s a snapshot of how Vox Media, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Trusted Media Brands evolved their first-party data strategy in 2022 and their plans for the coming year.

In 2022, SPO solutions largely revolved around creating direct connections to so-called premium publishers. But machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) also took on a bigger role in SPO this year. And 2022 was the year the ad industry began touting SPO as the solution of choice for sustainability-focused marketers.

From the rise of alternative measurement currencies and retail media networks to the launch of Netflix’s AVOD tier, these are the stories that helped us animate the news in 2022.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Yahoo? Yahoo has taken a 25% stake in Taboola as part of a 30-year exclusive ad deal (uhh … pardon?) that makes Taboola the primary native inventory seller for Yahoo’s media properties, The New York Times reports. The announcement leaves questions hanging. A […]

The Trade Desk’s revenue machine is still running strong. But with an economic downturn on the horizon, investors are pressing for TTD’s areas of optimism to translate into bottom line results.

Proctor & Gamble recently announced their support of The Trade Desk’s UID 2.0 identity framework. The partnership is significant for a couple of reasons. First, where P&G goes, other brands will follow. And second, approval hints at the rise of new walled gardens that could become even more powerful than Google and Facebook, writes Nancy Marzouk, CEO and founder of MediaWallah.

“The personalized targeting data points we’ve gotten used to are under examination,” said Jeremy Hlavacek, CCO of data services provider Experian. “Advertisers want better identity data, better segments and better understanding of consumer behavior. So they’re going to shift to higher-quality, more precise, more accurate, more trusted data sets.”

Supply-path optimization remains a hot industry topic. Increasingly, advertisers and publishers see the value in SPO to get closer to one another’s audiences. But identity is stoking the fire on the convergence of programmatic supply and demand, writes Lauren Fisher, GM of business intelligence at Advertiser Perceptions.

Podcast listeners bear a striking resemblance to CTV audiences. The majority (62%) of weekly podcast listeners regularly stream ad-supported content, according to research from Acast, a podcast monetization and distribution platform.

Optable is latest company to partner with The Trade Desk via UID2. The integration is in closed beta and set to go live for all Optable customers in Q4. Like InfoSum, Amazon Web Services, Snowflake and Acxiom and Kinesso (both owned by IPG), Optable will be what’s known as a closed or private UID2 operator.

The emergence of large-scale data and identity resolution platforms with audience graphs across devices and households is a major step forward to helping reclaim control over reach and frequency. But there’s no single solution to the problem, writes Seraj Bharwani, chief strategy officer at AcuityAds.

How will the high-stakes game of antitrust chicken between Google and the US Department of Justice play out? It could be a first important proactive step toward true structural change – not just at Google but across many of the biggest players in the industry, writes Arnaud Créput, CEO of Equativ.

Salesforce quietly introduced a new app in its App Exchange on Wednesday that was developed by The Trade Desk as a way to convert CDP identity data to Unified ID 2.0 (UID2) IDs. “The evolution of ad tech and martech is toward more and more first-party data being stored in cloud databases and in CDPs,” said Ben Sylvan, The Trade Desk’s GM of data partnerships.

What exactly does “premium” mean? It seems the definition varies depending on who’s using it – that “premium” is in the eye of the beholder. But there are some areas of agreement. And the industry isn’t setting the premium bar as high as you might think.

P&G publicly signaled its support for Unified ID 2.0 on Thursday. But the CGP giant had already been using UID 2.0 since last year to create anonymized identifiers tied to its first-party data for activation in the bidstream.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Leaked Sneak Peek The TV industry waits with bated breath for Netflix’s and Disney’s ad-supported tiers to face off in 2023. In the meantime, Disney’s plans got leaked to Insider. Disney is pushing hard to promote its streaming inventory to advertisers before ads […]