Behind NYT’s First Foray Into In-Game Advertising
Crossplay is NYT’s first two-player game, and marks the first time that users will see ads within the game experience itself.
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P&G Is Spending More For Paid; If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Flix It
In today’s newsletter: P&G boosts paid media budgets by 14%; why lower subscription prices aren’t enough to sustain the current rate of ad-supported streaming signups; and news publishers follow the NYT’s lead by using games to retain visitors.
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NYT Brings New Paid P-R-O-M-O To Wordle
The mobile web version of Wordle now features interstitial video and display ads that will run after a user clicks “Play” and before the game loads on their screen. The move is part of a broader initiative to expand ad offerings across the company’s portfolio.
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SSPs Can Do Buyer Direct, Too; How Wordle Guides Became An SEO Bubble
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. SP-Oh, It’s On Call it supply-path optimization, transparency or premium publisher marketplaces. Whichever you choose, Digiday writes, it “amounts to disintermediation.” In recent years, DSPs have leapfrogged SSPs to establish direct connections with media companies. The marketers are interested in media, after all, […]
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First Come, First Served For First-Party Data; The Gray Lady Goes Gangbusters With Games
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Network To Get Work Being called an “ad network” is a major slur for ad tech companies. It implies arbitrage and obfuscation. The Trade Desk and Google butted heads in 2019 over the designation of Google’s exchange bidding (now called Open Bidding) as […]
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The New York Times Reports Sluggish Ad Growth, But Subscriptions Pick Up The Slack
The New York Times’s subscription-focused strategy seems to be paying off amid a downturn in ad revenue. The Times reported 8% YoY revenue growth for Q3 2022, “with subscription revenue growth more than making up for a slight decline in overall advertising,” said President and CEO Meredith Kopit Levien.
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Wordle Joins The Ranks Of The Ad-Supported; Begun, The Clone War Has
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ads Vs. Cachet The New York Times isn’t shy about castigating Meta for its central role in the creeptastic-sounding surveillance economy. But NYT is following the Facebook playbook of acquiring cool, ad-free properties, giving them a few months to acclimate, then plugging them […]