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Zefr’s new agentic hub lets advertisers set up campaigns agentically using natural language prompts, thanks to an AdCP integration.

As brand safety standards evolve and oversight shifts from platforms to third-party vendors, Brittany Scott, SVP of global partnerships at Zefr, explains what the rise of generative AI – and Meta’s decision to step away from MRC brand safety audits – means for the future of media quality.

For years, MFA was a mostly web-based problem. Now, generative AI has supercharged the made-for-advertising model, and it’s infecting social media feeds and vertical video platforms.

Integral Ad Science is raising rates on various products by one to three cents per CPM. Plus, Gannett is inching back to overall growth.

The catalyst for Google’s future success – regardless of any legal ruling – is its YouTube strategy. Opening YouTube’s ad inventory to outside demand will increase its value.

Open social platforms need established content policy that is underpinned by transparency, advanced technology and feedback loops for constant improvement, writes Zefr’s Cameron Cramer.

AdExchanger caught up with Zefr’s new chief AI officer, Jon Morra, about his role and how digital media will adapt (or acquiesce) to AI tech.

In today’s newsletter: Walled gardens are turning into an interconnected network of fortresses; Walmart eyes a Vizio acquisition; Dentsu stumbled in 2023.

It’s not that brands don’t care about supporting the news and good journalism. But an overreliance on keyword blocklists has made it seem that way, says Zefr CEO Rich Raddon on this week’s episode of AdExchanger Talks.

The rapid growth, nearly ubiquitous use, and public interest around generative AI – alongside a shifting social media landscape and divisive political issues – will present new challenges for voters, platforms, media and marketers.

After more than two years of building and testing, Meta is releasing brand suitability controls and third-party verification for its feed environments.

Meta announced plans on Thursday to create content-based controls for Feed (formerly News Feed) on Facebook and Instagram. The question is, why did it take so long for Meta to start bringing third-party brand suitability to Feed? After all, the News Feed was one of Facebook’s first products, launched during the long-ago year of 2006.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cookie Cutters A coalition of large German advertisers and Axel Springer, the biggest German publisher, are petitioning the EU legislature to stop Google from removing third-party cookies in Chrome, the Financial Times reports.  Chrome already delayed cookie deprecation from Q2 this year to the […]

By Ross Nicol, VP EMEA, Zefr This article is sponsored by Zefr. The Global Alliance of Responsible Media (GARM) suitability standards represent a sea change for the industry. To this point, polarizing opinions about what counts as appropriate content created debilitating and often damaging confusion. This became especially apparent in the use of blunt keyword […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Apple Vs. Facebook Although maybe not as exciting as the upcoming Mike Tyson fight against Roy Jones Jr., Apple and Facebook have been trading blows this week over which one of them exploits their users more. Business Insider reports that Apple landed the first […]

YouTube has broadened its measurement partner program and made it easier for buyers to find the right service provider for their needs. On Monday, YouTube added Channel Factory, Integral Ad Science, DoubleVerify, Sightly and VuePlanner to the program. Existing partners include Pixability, Zefr, Tubular Labs and Wizdeo. But OpenSlate, which had been a member of […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here Game On  Amazon is making a big push into game advertising, if recent job postings spotted by Business Insider are any indication. “We’re looking for the right hands-on engineer to work on a disruptive advertising system set to revolutionize customer acquisition for gamers,” according […]

Zefr, a contextual targeting software platform for YouTube, has appointed Toby Byrne as president. Byrne, the former president of ad sales for Fox Networks Group, including its broadcast, sports and cable networks, vacated his post last September. During that time, there was a heavy transition in top sales talent at several linear TV networks as […]

Video branding and YouTube rights management platform Zefr – the brainchild of entrepreneur Rich Raddon, who sold the streaming video company he co-founded, Movieclips, to Comcast’s Fandango last year – is setting its sights on audio app SoundCloud. “SoundCloud is now partnering with us to understand the fan activity that’s going on on the platform,” […]

You could say digital entrepreneurship runs in the family. Zach James cofounded Movieclips.com in 2009 before embarking on his latest venture into video with Zefr, which helps brands and networks manage and monetize their YouTube video assets. James is also the brother of Josh James, founder of Omniture (which was sold to Adobe Systems for […]