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“Standard advertising services” shouldn’t include recording intimate patient-doctor conversations to help drug companies guide doctors on how to push opioids.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Arc Of History The Browser Company is backed by tech elite like Instacart CEO Fidji Simo, Medium founder Ev Williams, Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. TBC makes a browser called Arc, and this week it launched […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Board Games The LG Ads board of directors has three new members. Or, more accurately, two previous board members – Alphonso co-founders Ashish Chordia and Lampros Kalampoukas, who were fired as part of an orchestrated corporate coup in late December 2022 – have […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. AdExchanger is taking the day off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Our daily news roundup will return on Tues., Jan. 16. The Clean Slate Disney has been talking up its data clean room at CES. It now has 140 demand customers, and […]

GroupM’s integration with Google allows its Choreograph campaign planning and insights platform to compile data derived from Google – including signals from Search, YouTube and Google Analytics – in one interface.

Agencies will keep testing cookie alternatives, devising first-party data strategies and exploring commerce media in 2024.

With support from Google, WPP-owned GroupM announced a new initiative to integrate Privacy Sandbox tests into the media plans of select clients over the coming year.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Location, Location, Location The FTC’s consumer privacy case against Kochava is back on the docket. Last year, the consumer watchdog accused the mobile app analytics platform of selling users’ geolocation data in an open market. However, the presiding judge threw out the FTC’s […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Whoever Attributes, Wins When people refer to the control that Apple and Google exert over the mobile ecosystem, they usually focus on onerous app store fees. Which, okay, fair enough. But “there’s a looming, more subtle, and much more esoteric form of control […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Heads Will Roll CEO Kirk McDonald is out at GroupM North America, Insider reports. WPP’s revenue growth tumbled in the US this year, which the company blamed on tech clients curtailing their ad spend. GroupM North America has fared particularly poorly, putting GroupM, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Another Cookie Delay? The third-party cookie might receive another stay of execution – and this time it wouldn’t be Google pushing the deadline. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) reiterated that Google won’t be allowed to kill cookies next year unless the […]

Dentsu launched a set of identity solutions for Merkury, its identity resolution platform, on Tuesday. The identity solutions try to create a single customer view for marketers.

The strategy behind agency holding company reorgs makes sense: consolidation of related assets under one roof. But simply merging creative agencies doesn’t solve the bigger client need, which is bringing creative and media closer together, says Jellyfish CEO Nick Emery.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. View From The Top  The world’s largest advertisers have … not changed much in the past year. The top five advertisers – Amazon, L’Oréal, Alibaba, Procter & Gamble and Samsung – held their positions in the latest Ad Age World’s Largest Advertisers ranking. […]

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 […]

Innovid added a new machine learning feature to its measurement product that automatically optimizes CTV campaigns based on how they’re performing.

Samantha Bukowski, who leads GroupM Nexus Commerce as global head of commerce, talks social commerce, retail media, AI and how all media has become performance media.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Slow Slide WPP reported lackluster Q2 results during its earnings call on Friday.  The agency holding company saw a “shortfall” in the US, accounting for about 37% of WPP’s biz, which “took us a little bit by surprise,” CEO Mark Read told […]

The company’s immediate plans for reinvesting its new capital include hiring more executive leadership to spearhead sales and partnerships, growing its engineering team and expanding its presence in the US and Japan.

David Sommer, Snap’s newly appointed head of US verticals, spoke with AdExchanger about how he’s applying his CPG knowledge to the tech space.

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It’s up to technology and media companies to decide whether AI will be an atomic bomb that annihilates countless jobs or if it will power the workforce’s next leap in productivity.

Likes and followers are not without merit, but engagement is not directly causal of sales rates. What should marketers consider instead?

On the heels of the launch of its latest supply-path optimization product, PubMatic posted $55.4 million in Q1 revenue, growing 2% YOY.

Agency holding company WPP met its own expectations in the first quarter of the year. Standout GroupM, its media buying and planning agency, contributed to about 36% of WPP’s Q1 revenue, growing 6.1% in Q1.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Palm Readers Panera is an early adopter of a palm-scanning biometric data collection product created by Amazon that allows customers to “sign in” with their palms. Doing so links their purchases to Panera’s loyalty program so they can collect rewards. Privacy advocates have […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rage Against The Machines Last week, Meta quietly rolled out Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns, the black box ad engine it previously parceled out to some advertisers upon request. Advantage+, like Google’s Performance Max, puts creative, targeting and optimization controls fully in the hands of […]

The ad agency holding company WPP is on the up and up and remains confident in its clients’ continued investment in marketing projects despite a challenging macroeconomic environment. WPP is “well positioned to deliver sustainable, long-term growth” after seeing broad-based growth in 2022, said CEO Mark Read during the company’s earnings report on Thursday.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bing Chat Is … Weird Microsoft’s AI-enabled Bing search is making waves for all the wrong reasons.  In early tests, the new Bing produced unhinged results that ranged from an aggressive know-it-all who’s constantly wrong to a jilted lover … to a robot […]

Sustainability was a hot topic for the advertising industry in 2022. The momentum will only grow in 2023, though decarbonization remains a multiyear journey.