Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Let’s See, LG Smart TV manufacturer LG is on board with the outcomes-based buying trend, but with a twist – advertisers that don’t hit performance goals don’t have to pay. On Wednesday, LG Ads Solutions launched Guaranteed Outcomes, which promises brands they’ll only pay […]
With third-party cookies on the road to nowhere, data management platform Audigent has been working to develop its own cookieless identifier, which it’s calling the Hadron ID. Audigent hopes the new identifier will keep the company competitive in a world where DMPs are being supplanted by customer data platforms.
Late last week, Google made its first legal move to try and get the Texas-led antitrust case into its ad tech business tossed before it hits a courtroom. In its motion to dismiss, Google makes numerous arguments as to why the court should reject the suit, and they can be summed up thusly: If you didn’t like it, you should have said something earlier, but we didn’t do anything wrong anyway.
The IAB designed the sellers.json specification to follow the money – but the spec has its own limitations that require hygiene practices and general maintenance for accuracy. What’s more, just because an entry exists on sellers.json does not mean inventory is available to buyers, writes Eric Bozinny, senior director of marketplace quality at PubMatic.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. You Got Peltzed Unilever will cut jobs and reorganize to fend off activist investor Trian Fund Management, led by Nelson Peltz, The Wall Street Journal reports. Peltz unseated a Procter & Gamble board member in a shocking shareholder vote in 2017 – winning […]
On Tuesday, just a few days after filing a motion to dismiss the state AG-led antitrust lawsuit against its advertising business, Google announced Topics, a new proposal for the Privacy Sandbox that replaces the FLoC API, which is being sent to bird heaven.
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 […]
It’s very easy for frequency to go beyond being effective to the point that it’s actually detrimental. There are certain credit card companies I have pledged to never use because their jingle annoys me so much it ruins my sleep, says Fred Godfrey, CEO and co-founder of CTV ad platform Origin.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. TC Effed? The Irish Council for Civil Liberties, a privacy advocacy group, published a blog post last week arguing that IAB Europe’s Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF), the industry’s mechanism to convey consent data in online ad bids, cannot be reliably audited and […]
Ad tech companies once gained market share through optimization bake-offs, in agency conference rooms and on the beaches of Cannes. Now, wins come from the cloud. “The cloud and first-party data are exploding right now,” said James Arra, LiveRamp’s head of cloud partnerships. That’s why LiveRamp has forged a strategic relationship with Google Cloud Platform […]
Uber Advertising, in partnership with Adelaide and Kantar, launched a first-of-its-type custom attention metric score for its platform advertisers.
Alphabet reported on Wednesday that its total Q3 revenue was $102.3 billion, up 16% year over year, while net profit increased by a third to $35 billion.
Meta says “trust the machine” – but marketers are finding out that automated ad platforms, including Advantage+, don’t always know best.
Prebid’s future is up for grabs as the open-source project grows apart from the IAB Tech Lab, the industry’s self-appointed standards authority.
Last week, after nearly six years of development and delays, Google officially retired its Privacy Sandbox.
Which means it’s time for a memorial service.
AWS RTB Fabric offers ad tech platforms more streamlined integrations with ecosystem and infrastructure partners, allegedly lower latency compared to the public internet and discounts on data transfers.
