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Agency holding company Omnicom’s going all in on generative AI – a topic that dominated its earnings call Tuesday.

The DMP is helping BDG target users it couldn’t reach before, in addition to packaging its audiences into more granular intent-based segments.

In a wildly exciting and inventive sector, YouTube is merely meeting the status quo – with scope for so much more.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pour One Out For Pub Tech During the heady days of gonzo social traffic and zero-dollar interest rates, publishers were launching their own software businesses. But that cottage industry has practically disappeared without so much as a whimper. Vox Media, one of the […]

Roughly three years after the Schrems II case invalidated Privacy Shield overnight – and with it the legal basis for data transfers between Europe and the US – the European Commission adopted its “adequacy decision” for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

Amazon Prime Day was a smash hit in terms of sales. Now, many brands must prove that two of their biggest sales days ever were, in fact, worth the cost.

A significant number of solutions that claim to be cookieless, including unified IDs and cohort-based targeting, still rely on IDs. These solutions will find it extremely difficult to achieve the scalability required to become a true successor to cookie-based advertising.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trading Up “Investors had gotten away from an industry they used to love, but the fundamentals are still there when you consider what percent of global ad spend is bought programmatically today versus what will be programmatic five or 10 years from now.”  […]

Integral Ad Science added a new capability to measure brand safety and suitability for off-YouTube sites and apps through YouTube’s ad network.

It’s called “Prime Day” because you need a Prime, but the other definition of the word “prime” is rather apt. Amazon’s real superpower is its indivisibility.

Get the inside baseball on MediaMath’s bankruptcy. Plus, what its demise means for the rest of ad tech.

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Unboxed The Chrome Privacy Sandbox is sorta-kinda-finally ramping up to testable scale. And Google is signaling more clearly that the training wheels are almost ready to come off. Chrome 115 went live for Android on Wednesday and will be available to all users […]

Ad tech M&A has had a case of the Mondays since … late 2021. After the blistering pace of M&A during the height of the pandemic, deal activity in the ad tech sector slowed to a trickle in 2022 and has remained sluggish this year.

Clean rooms are dominating ad tech conversations, and the rise of connected TV has spurred clean room adoption to new levels because of inventory fragmentation.

The more time the marketplace has to evaluate the Privacy Sandbox – and, particularly, the Topics platform – the worse those platforms will look.

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Ad Fontes plans to spend its newfound capital on hiring media bias researchers, developing an AI model for assessing media quality and enhancing its rating tools for foreign-language content.

The programmatic digital out-of-home (DOOH) market has been growing at a steady clip, and ad buyers are now looking at media quality metrics beyond audience reach and impressions. But assessing the quality of physical screens across a variety of real-world locations requires new mechanisms. To encourage more brands to enter the channel, programmatic DOOH platforms […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Lost The Plot The “Barbie” movie doesn’t premiere until next week, but is practically guaranteed to be a major hit, considering the deluge of prerelease energy and coverage. The marketing success (and excess) of “Barbie” is also a reminder of how studios in […]

Clear Channel Outdoor plugs into four clean room tech providers to help advertisers link their first-party data with out-of-home ad exposures and outcomes.

When an ad tech company goes belly up – and its destiny is being decided by indifferent creditors – it becomes difficult for unfamiliar bankers to capture (or preserve) the value.

Taboola CEO Adam Singolda bristles at the terms “clickbait” and “chumbox.” Quality is subjective, he says. Also: Inside Taboola’s exclusive 30-year native advertising sales deal with Yahoo.

It’s only fitting that YouTube, which has long coveted TV’s ad dollars and advertisers, should find out what it feels like to be treated as if it were TV.

Bank-Erupted The private equity firm and empty LLCs schlepping MediaMath through its bankruptcy process face a new class-action suit brought by former employees over alleged labor violations. Justin Adler-Swanberg, until recently MediaMath’s director of product strategy in charge of marketplace quality and compliance, is the named plaintiff. The filing says roughly 200 MediaMath employees who […]

Based on the growing flurry of lawsuits against creators, it’s clear that many of them are dangerously unaware of the legal risks involved in influencer marketing.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Caught Thread-Handed Tech companies rarely credit competitors when they copycat a feature or product.  When Mark Zuckerberg published the first Instagram Stories post in 2016, he avoided citing Snapchat, although the term “Stories” itself is a blatant ripoff. When YouTube and Instagram unashamedly […]

When MediaMath filed for bankruptcy last week, the company’s co-founder and former CEO, Joe Zawadzki, was on the outside looking in. AdExchanger spoke with Zawadzki just a few hours after the news broke.

Feminine care is a crowded market. Menstrual product brand August, which has a Gen Z founder, saw an opportunity to stand out through marketing that resonates with that age group.

The IAB Tech Lab released its first data clean room guidance and also shared the first version of the Open Private Join and Activation (OPJA) specifications, which sets use cases to match encrypted audiences.