Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. We don’t like to boast, but we did a thing: AdExchanger just won regional gold, silver and bronze awards for our editorial coverage at the 2023 Azbee Awards. Check it out, and sincere thanks to our readers! Still Searching Googlers were in “panic” […]
Mail Metro Media partnered with Firework to integrate a new vertical video player across dmg’s sites that features interstitial ads and TikTok-esque clickable overlays.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Aim At The Heart, Hit The Stomach When New York added digital screens to subway cars, Seamless and other food delivery services were natural advertisers, often showcasing food-related content or recipes. But those were actual recipes. The new digital out-of-home subway trend is […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Better Safe Than Sorry Brands are nervous about misinformation, especially as generative AI tools make it relatively easy to create convincing fake images, audio files and videos. General Mills is teaming up with verification company Zefr to measure misinformation around its social media […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Go Big Or Go Home Apple, Amazon and Google (via YouTube) are now presumptive leaders for major sports broadcast deals. Apple snapped up Major League Soccer and Major League Baseball rights last year, while Amazon and Google had National Football League coups. These […]
Given industrywide pushback, the IAB Tech Lab has amended its previous update to its guidelines for in-stream and out-stream video.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Live Shopping ROI … Or RIP? Amazon, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube have all tried their darndest to make livestream shopping happen in the US. But Americans just aren’t into it, Wired reports, and Chinese influencers and companies aren’t having much success exporting their […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tubi Or Not Tubi Fox-owned Tubi recently made its first ping on Nielsen’s radar with 1% of US TV viewership – just in time for Tubi’s first-ever advertiser conference ahead of upfront season on Thursday, where it showcased glitzy new data partnerships. And […]
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 […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Social Ladder These days, fraudsters seem to prefer social media as their venue of choice. In 2021, Americans lost $800 million to social scams compared to $700 million in reported losses to phone scammers. Last year, phone fraudsters scammed people out of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. After A Fashion Criteo inked an exclusive deal with British online clothing retailer ASOS to be the ad tech pipes for its advertising business. “The ASOS vision is to become the go-to global destination for fashion-loving 20-somethings and we want to take brands […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Fund At All After luring influencers with massive creator funds, social media companies are reverting back to an advertising revenue-share model to compensate creators. Meta will put its Reels Play bonus program for US Instagram users on hold, and Facebook is dropping […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bog Standard TV broadcasters still dispute the basics of how to count an ad impression. This week, a broadcaster-backed joint industry committee published a first pass at standards for video currency providers. Paramount, which is part of the JIC, released a template of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Great Search TikTok has made waves because of its organic traction as a new kind of search engine. People use it to look for stores and restaurants nearby, where to travel, where to stay – you name it. But TikTok hasn’t effectively […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pass The DOJ Google faces a DOJ lawsuit that could compel the company to spin out its sell-side ad tech business. But the company isn’t overly concerned about this development, per a conversation between Marketing Brew and Google VP of Global Ads Dan […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Currents Of Currency In January, a group of US broadcasters formed a joint industry committee, fronted by OpenAP, to work on new video currency standards. On Monday, the JIC published its first guidelines. The “first pass” on these guidelines establishes a baseline between […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. 230 Unhurty? The US Supreme Court held oral arguments on Tuesday in the case of Gonzalez v. Google, which challenges the Section 230 legal protections for companies that host user-generated content. In the suit is the family of a victim of the 2015 […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The round-up will return Tuesday, February 21, in observance of the Presidents’ Day holiday. Thanks, George and Abe, for the long weekend! The Clone Wars Every few months, social platforms align on a shiny new object … that’s really just another version of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Don’t Label Me Canada is coming for digital platforms like YouTube, TikTok, Spotify and Netflix with legislation that requires the services to feature Canadian content in country. The new law extends regulations already in place for domestic TV and radio stations to abide […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Heads In The Clouds Amazon Advertising and AWS are bolstering one another in pursuit of marketing budgets, Digiday reports. Both Amazon and Google have deeply intertwined their advertising and cloud businesses via clean rooms, which provide an advertising service built on cloud-based privacy […]
Amazon and Apple reported Q4 and full-year 2022 earnings, and ad revenue has covertly become an important factor for both companies.
Team Whistle says TikTok’s programmatic ad offerings pale in comparison to YouTube’s more robust, Google-supported ad platform. But while YouTube Shorts’ new revenue share and creator funds can offer meaningful revenue, Team Whistle prefers the predictability of sponsored content.
ISBA and PwC rang alarm bells in 2020 about the complexity of programmatic. But increased transparency is making it easier to track impressions from start to finish. Plus: YouTube Shorts is taking on TikTok through a new revenue sharing model.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The New You YouTube is once again the title sponsor of VidCon, Tubefilter reports. It lost that honor last year (after seven years of top billing) when TikTok took its place for the 2022 show, which was the first VidCon following a three-year […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Say “Nein” To Sharing The German Cartel Office, Germany’s antitrust regulator, says Google’s data processing policies violate the country’s digital competition law. Germany’s antitrust regulations go further than the EU’s Digital Markets Act to prohibit data from being shared internally by large companies […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Mobility Ability The retail media boom has spawned a subcategory of first-party data owners in the travel and hospitality vertical, and they’ve got their own terminology. When Uber formalized its new advertising group last October, for example, GM Mark Grether referred to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Untangling Web2 From Web3 Which Web2 social platforms are driving Web3 growth? It turns out there’s “an interesting inversion” happening, according to a blog by Antonio García Martinez, co-founder of Web3 attribution company Spindl. Web3 companies get huge value from Twitter, whereas Google […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Can You Talk The Tok? With TikTok, it’s like the clone wars. (We’re looking at you, Reels and Shorts.) But TikTok has a special power, which is its seemingly limitless feed of quick, infinitely swipeable, likable, shareable videos. Reproducing TikTok’s success is no […]
