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2024’s most popular guest columns offer a snapshot of an industry in flux – and one that’s grown cynical due to repeated promises of unrealized change.

In-game advertising is uncharted territory even for brands like Sony Electronics that consumers associate with gaming.

Stop thinking about brand safety verification as “insurance” – a way to avoid undesirable content – and start thinking about it as an opportunity to build positive brand associations, says Kenvue’s Mark Proulx.

It’s not often one gets to hear sworn witnesses in federal court explain the intricacies of header bidding under oath. But that’s what happened during the first day of the Google ad tech-focused antitrust case in Virginia on Monday.

Quad Media President Joshua Lowcock asks all ad tech partners for log files as a matter of course. And if a company isn’t willing to hand them over, that’s a sign it’s probably hiding something. Plus: The fallacy of scale and pondering the true role of a third-party verification partner.

From clear-eyed looks at the industry’s shortcomings and conflicts of interest to prognostications that presage the next batch of conference panel talking points, you can count on these astute industry voices to drive the conversation.

IPG is floundering. The agency holding company was roughed up in the first two quarters of 2023, and its organic revenue growth declined by 0.4%, with a 1.2% decrease in the US, according to an earnings report on Friday.  

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rare Wares TV inventory is on track to become an even scarcer resource. US television (linear and streaming combined) will likely lose almost a quarter of its ad inventory volume over the next four years, according to media prognosticator Brian Wieser, writing at […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Ad-tagonists Joshua Lowcock, a longtime leader at agency UM Worldwide, where he most recently served as global chief media officer, exited on Friday. His departure comes only a few weeks after UM’s chief privacy and responsibility officer, Arielle Garcia, left the agency, […]

The widening “trust gap” between consumers and the ad industry is enough to make a chief privacy officer quit. So Arielle Garcia did. She explains why.

Arielle Garcia, UM’s former chief privacy and responsibility officer, explains why she decided to leave the large agency holding company model – a model that is rife with competing interests and conflicting loyalties, shackled to the industry status quo by “dysfunctional interdependencies.”

There isn’t going to be one single resolution to the measurement debate. The TV market will most likely end up with a hybrid model that includes everything from ACR and big data via smart TVs to, yes, much-maligned Nielsen-style panels.

Regulators have made it clear that they have their eye on how data flows between first parties and their partners – and that first parties are responsible for what happens when the data they collect is shared with others.

Businesses should be asking themselves whether their data usage is fair beyond simply getting an opt-in, said Arielle Garcia, chief privacy officer of IPG-owned agency UM Worldwide, speaking at AdExchanger’s Industry Preview in New York City on Tuesday.

When it comes to privacy compliance, who you work with matters. Verification startup Neutronian just released a new score for ranking whether a company – and potential partner – has a kosher approach to privacy.

Philanthropy is making its way onto the media plan. On Tuesday, Givsly, a B2B marketing platform that helps brands and agencies make a social impact with their demand and lead generation efforts, launched an advertising solution in beta that translates ad engagement into charitable donations.

“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 Joshua Lowcock, chief digital and global brand safety officer at UM Worldwide. The unprecedented public health challenge of the coronavirus is also uncovering the challenges facing the ad tech industry around […]