Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Podcast Pie Entercom Communications is throwing its hat into the booming podcast space that is expected to generate more than a $1 billion in advertising revenue this year. The company is set to acquire podcast ad network Podcorn in a deal aimed at helping […]
WarnerMedia’s advertising and analytics unit Xandr has partnered with healthcare marketing and analytics platform Lasso to deliver programmatic advertising to the pharma and healthcare industries across CTV, social and email. Mike DiNorscio, Lasso co-founder and chief revenue officer, told AdExchanger that the partnership, formally announced on Monday, had been underway since Lasso launched in December […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Another Grilling Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Jack Dorsey are heading back to the hot seat. House lawmakers are set to question the top execs at Facebook, Google and Twitter at a high-profile congressional hearing scheduled for March 25. Democrats and Republicans on the […]
Video streaming giant Roku experienced its strongest quarter ever as the COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed viewing behaviors in 2020 and fueled the shift to streaming. In its Q4 2020 earnings call Thursday, Roku’s YoY revenue soared 58% to $650 million, while its platform segment – which includes advertising and content distribution revenue – grew 81% […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. #Winning Netflix is outshining the competition. Last year, the streaming giant added subscribers even as it cut spending on advertising, The Information reports. By contrast, most of the older entertainment companies entering the streaming wars shelled out beaucoup bucks on marketing. A recent securities […]
AT&T’s WarnerMedia saw the number of activations on its HBO Max streaming platform double in Q4 to 17.2 million from the third-quarter of 2020, thanks in large part to the success of “Wonder Woman 1984.” During its earnings call on Wednesday, AT&T said that the total number of domestic HBO Max and HBO subscribers topped 41 […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Built On Sand? The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching an investigation into Google’s plan to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome, CNBC reports. The CMA says it’s received several complaints about how Google’s Privacy Sandbox proposals will impact competition. One of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. New Year, Same Controversies Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: Political ads on Facebook contain misinformation. Well, it’s zero hour before the Jan. 5 Georgia runoff election for control of the Senate, and Republican ads on Facebook related to the race reportedly […]
At the start of 2020, video streaming giant Roku’s upfront deck predicted consumer time spent viewing streaming TV would surpass traditional linear over a period of five years. Instead they did so in a year, fueled in large part by the COVID-19 pandemic. “It is a fundamental shift in viewership,” said Alison Levin, Roku’s VP […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. White Hot The Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs is leading a deal to buy bot detection and anti-fraud company White Ops, Business Insider scoops. Goldman is being joined in the deal by VC firm ClearSky Security and investment firm NightDragon. The trio will […]
