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  • The Industry Speaks: AdExchanger’s Most Popular Opinion Columns Of 2023

    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.

  • Richard Girges, VP of Engineering, MNTN 

    Why Today’s CTV Attribution Models Fall Short

    CTV is poised to become the third “big scale” performance advertising channel, but is effective CTV attribution actually possible?

  • Programmatic CTV

    The Trade Desk Wins On Revenue In Q3, But Slips On Profit Margin

    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.

  • The Trade Desk Adds Adobe’s CDP Email Data To Unified ID

    The Trade Desk and Adobe Experience Cloud announced a partnership on Thursday to sync emails stored in the Adobe CDP product with The Trade Desk, which converts the emails into Unified ID 2.0 (UID2) IDs that can be traded programmatically. Advertisers and publishers have moved away from DMPs and other cookie-based advertising ID solutions in […]

  • Ad Frequency In CTV Is Profoundly Broken – Let’s Fix It

    Have you ever seen the same ad an ungodly number of times while watching your favorite programming? If so, you’re a victim of the current connected TV (CTV) experience. Jon Ahuna, SVP of operations at Viant, uncovers two specific technical hurdles abehind this problem and shares how marketers can collectively overcome them through the smarter use of IDs.

  • There’s (Finally) A Marketer Case Study For Unified ID 2.0

    The Trade Desk spent the last year and a half signing up a host of partners to support the Unified ID 2.0 program – but none of that means much without getting brand marketers involved. Most of UID2’s supporters so far have been ad tech companies and online publishers, which makes sense. Ad tech players don’t […]

  • Omri Kedem Croud

    Chrome's Delay In Deprecating Third-Party Cookies Doesn’t Change The Importance of Privacy

    “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 Omri Kedem, programmatic media director at Croud. Last Thursday, Chrome announced plans to delay the deprecation of third-party cookies by almost two years. Chrome’s decision to temporarily maintain the third-party […]

  • SSO is a critical piece of the puzzle if UID 2.0 has any chance of reaching scale.

    Criteo Is Ready To Test The Single Sign-On Software For Unified ID 2.0

    Criteo has started testing the single sign-on (SSO) solution – called OpenPass – that will serve as the consumer-facing component of Unified ID 2.0, the open source industry initiative that aims to use email as an alternative to third-party cookies. In November, Criteo was one of the first companies to join Unified ID 2.0, which is […]

  • The Big Story Podcast

    The Big Story: Don’t Microwave Fish

    This week, The Big Story records live at AdExchanger’s digital conference: Innovation Labs. While our April 20 one-day event will focus on Ecommerce, and our May 18 event will focus on CTV, our event on March 16 was all about Identity. And the big story around identity, no pun intended, is that it’s still a […]

  • Why A Unified ID Is Critical To The Open Internet, Journalism, And TV

    “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 Jeff Green, CEO at The Trade Desk. There is an index for the equities markets that tracks volatility called the VIX, used by many to gauge fear or stress in the […]

  • The Big Story Podcast

    The Big Story: Unified!

    Online identity resolution solutions. Two years ago, they were all ambition – but today, they’re undergoing tests and people are starting to figure out how they work, where they work … and where they don’t. In other words, the ad industry is finally  discussing the practical challenges that these solutions must overcome. The biggest and most […]

  • Why A Unified ID Will Never Work - And Why It's Time To Fall In Love With Walled Gardens

    “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 James Avery, founder and CEO at Kevel. The digital ad industry seems faced with an existential choice – go Google’s way, and give up your destiny while bearing the consequences. […]

  • Comic: Unified ID 2.0

    A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

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    The Trade Desk Readies New Unified ID For Cookieless Future; Facebook Aims Copycat Playbook At TikTok

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Re-Unified The Trade Desk is updating its Unified ID solution, a shared third-party cookie pool for advertisers and ad tech companies, to function in post-cookie advertising, Adweek reports. The project will be open source, so anyone can use the currency, though The Trade Desk’s […]