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  • Web 3? More Like Web 30%; Balancing “Commercial” And “Surveillance”

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Maybe Web 4 Apple has asserted its dominion over Web 3 developers.  In its latest app review guidance, which went live this week, Apple introduced language to clarify that apps “may not use their own mechanisms to unlock content or functionality, such as […]

  • How VCs Can Cripple A Promising Category; Time To Build Something New

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. VC You On The Other Side The food delivery app Gopuff is looking for a $300 million “cash cushion,” The Wall Street Journal reports, to help bridge tough economic times and diminishing returns in the superfast food delivery startup category.   SoftBank, a gigantic […]

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    Tribune Quantifies The AMP Effect; The Sad State Of Newspapers

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. AMPed Up And AMPed Out Last year, Google changed its search algorithm to take its thumb off the scale for AMP pages.  Accelerated Mobile Pages are a plague on web publishers. Although they promise somewhat better site-loading times, historically, all they really do […]

  • To Understand Where TV Is Going, Track The NFL; Ad Buyers Grapple With Real Data Emissions

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Game-Changer The NFL has a history of media and marketing innovation. If we’re keeping score, it was the first sports league to reach every TV in America, the first to invest in studio-style production and the first to mic players on the field. […]

  • AdExplainer: What Is First-Party Data?

    You’ve probably heard (dozens of times) by now that first-party data will be the key to post-third-party-cookie ad targeting. But what exactly is first-party data? How does it differ from second-party, third-party and zero-party data? And what makes first-party data more suited to a privacy-centric ad experience?

  • The Trade Desk Expands Its Direct Publisher Roster; Password-Free Makes Strange Bedfellows

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Path Less Traveled More publishers have signed up for OpenPath, The Trade Desk’s direct buy-to-sell-side integration. Since launching in February, TTD says it’s “registered interest” (interesting turn of phrase) in OpenPath from more than 100 publishers.  The latest crop to, uh, register […]

  • Douglas Rushkoff And WashPo On Reorganizing Media With The Right Priorities

    A focus on profitability to the exclusion of all else cheapens the great potential of technology to foster human innovation. It’s why modern media companies risk losing their biggest value proposition unless they reorganize and reprioritize, said media theorist and professor Douglas Rushkoff on stage at AdExchanger’s Industry Preview.

  • Apple Hit With IOS 14 Privacy Complaint In France; T-Mobile Loves Targeted Advertising

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Vive La Privacy Will the IDFA have its day in court? As developers scramble to prepare for Apple’s iOS 14 privacy changes, which could roll out any day now, a French lobbying group is taking a different tack. France Digitale, which represents startups in […]

  • The Washington Post will adopt the Unified ID 2.0 framework, the first publisher to do so after a string of ad tech companies have joined in recent months.

    WashPost Becomes The First Publisher To Join Unified ID 2.0

    The Washington Post said Wednesday that it will adopt the Unified ID 2.0 framework – the first publisher to do so after a string of ad tech companies have tossed their hats into the ring over the past few months. The Post will allow advertisers to transact using the ID on its own site and will […]

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    Cannes Has A Contingency Plan; WaPo And Vox Expand Ad Tech Businesses

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cannes Contingency   As global events continue to get canceled due to fears of spreading the coronavirus known as COVID-19, the advertising industry is waiting with bated breath for news about Cannes. For now, the ad conference on the Riviera is on for its usual […]

  • Ad Tech Founders Set Sights On Other Industries; WaPo Has A New Ad Network

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Programmatic Everything Tapad co-founders Are Traasdahl and Dag Liodden are the latest ad tech entrepreneurs to bring programmatic principles to adjacent industries. The two have raised $14 million for their new startup Crisp, which will use big data to reduce food waste, VentureBeat reports. […]

  • 4 Reasons Why News Media Will Thrive In The Wake Of Privacy Regulation

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jeff Turner, head of ad product for RED at The Washington Post. Every few years there’s something new in digital advertising that threatens publishers’ revenue and puts the digital publishing industry at risk. Past […]

  • Dun & Bradstreet Acquires Lattice Engines; Walmart Shifts Ecommerce Strategy

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The B2B CDP? Dun & Bradstreet has agreed to acquire Lattice Engines, a B2B marketing startup. D&B says it made the deal to add a customer data platform (CDP), a trendy category of tech companies that collect and manage consumer data. Lattice started as […]

  • Behind Instagram Founders' Exit; Snap Fizzles?

    Snap Fizzle? This year, eMarketer estimates Snapchat will bring in $662.1 million in US ad revenue, a significant drop from the $1.03 billion it had projected last March. “We now expect that Snap will not break $1 billion in US ad revenue until 2020,” according to the revised figures. The downgrade is mainly due to […]

  • The Publisher’s New Role In Advertising

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jarrod Dicker, vice president of commercial product and innovation at The Washington Post. When balancing both proactive and reactive strategies, it’s a continuous battle for publishers to decide when to push and when to […]

  • How The Industry Can Make Advertising Faster – Now

    “The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jarrod Dicker, head of ad product and technology at The Washington Post. The publishing world now, more than ever, is extraordinarily fast. What used to take seconds for a URL load can now take […]

  • Clean Ads IO: WaPo CRO On Balancing Revenue With UX

    Jed Hartman, the CRO of the Washington Post, knows that a focus on user experience can also conflict with a publisher’s ability to drive revenue “Our owner Jeff Bezos focuses relentlessly on the consumer,” Hartman said during a publisher panel at AdExchanger’s Clean Ads conference on Tuesday. “It’s UX-first, which is a challenge for me […]

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