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Ad tech vendors who scrape content to build contextual segments are irking publishers. And the latest tweak in Safari will cut down on vendors that camouflage themselves in first-party cookie tech.

2022 was a record-breaking year for US digital advertising revenues, which cracked the $200 billion mark for the first time, according to the IAB/PwC Internet Advertising Revenue Report released Wednesday.

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 […]

Before DOOH can court bigger ad budgets, it must adapt the automated tools marketers use for measuring and buying against performance to a media channel that straddles the online and offline worlds.

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. What Could Possible Go Wrong? Elon Musk was a splashy late get for the POSSIBLE marketing conference in Miami next week.   He’s a major draw, but he comes with risks, as some brand leaders are concerned about Musk’s participation, Semafor reports.  In previous […]

Publishers are fed up with brand safety and verification vendors using crawlers to scrape their sites for contextual signals, then using those signals to sell contextual ad products.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rules Of The Game In September 2021, Google Ads switched from last-click attribution as its default measurement mode to “data-driven attribution.” The latter is Google’s term for modeled attribution without preset rules, like that a brand’s first ad exposure or the last click […]

Putting data in the possession of a presumably trusted third party makes a world of sense. But while clean rooms are very useful for some things, it is questionable whether they are the panacea for all privacy-compliance challenges.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Why Social Is Unaffiliated TikTok is beginning to cut US creators in on sales – aka affiliate commissions – through its on-platform shopping service, Shops.  The product is being tested by pilot brand advertisers and creators, Insider reports. Posts with the affiliate tag […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Still Searching TikTok and Instagram want search marketing budgets. But even those megaplatforms face a long road before they can catch up to true search players Google and Amazon, Ad Age reports. Search advertising typically identifies people who are about ready to buy. […]

The Federal Trade Commission helped normalize and popularize the term “commercial surveillance.” But is the current FTC “anti-advertising”?

Sebastian Tomich, The Athletic’s chief commercial officer and a longtime fixture in the Times’ ad tech division, believes the Times can use its blueprint for building a publishing business on The Athletic. And he’s also betting that advertising is an easier sell for sports fans than news readers.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. SP-Oh, It’s On Call it supply-path optimization, transparency or premium publisher marketplaces. Whichever you choose, Digiday writes, it “amounts to disintermediation.” In recent years, DSPs have leapfrogged SSPs to establish direct connections with media companies. The marketers are interested in media, after all, […]

Prebid has decided not to serve as public operator for Unified ID 2.0, a decision it made quietly last year. Meanwhile, The Trade Desk is prioritizing private operators as the way forward for UID2.

Rather than allowing an ecosystem in which all media is interchangeable to remain the default, media owners must differentiate themselves to maximize their value to readers and advertisers.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. High Voltage Media Last week, we mentioned Volta, a company that manufactures electric car charging stations, in our new weekly Commerce Media newsletter as an apt example of the strange inventory grab-bag that sometimes exists behind a retail media platform. For Volta Media, […]

In the past week or so, many Google advertiser accounts have been suspended for the first time, and erroneous suspensions and other account issues have increased at an alarming rate, five agency buyers told AdExchanger.

ATT’s impact has been especially hard on game app developers, with the average cost per install on iOS up 88% from Q1 2021, the last quarter before the rollout of ATT. To adapt, app marketers have been using probabilistic data and methods to reach opted-out users.

The language of Wall Street has become the language of ad tech, an industry on the cusp of major change because of a new bill in Congress, the AMERICA Act.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Opt Out Or Copped Out? Facebook and Instagram users in the EU will be able to opt out of personalized advertising, except for broad segmentation for gender and country, The Wall Street Journal reports. Ireland’s data protection regulator fined Meta roughly $423 million […]

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 […]

On Wednesday, Google shared details on its evolving criteria for blocking advertisers and publishers for ad fraud or misinformation. It also rolled out a new consumer-facing tool that offers transparency into the ads that brands serve through its platform.

While American gamers are more open to in-game ads than many believe, any such activations must bear the hallmarks of creative and technical excellence.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Dissing And Dismissing Quelle surprise. On Monday, Google filed a motion to dismiss the Justice Department’s antitrust case over Google’s dominance over the online advertising market. The DOJ sued Google in January alleging that the behemoth – sorry, the company – not only […]

Ad industry veteran and event stage mainstay Amanda Martin is taking on a new role as Mediavine’s SVP of partnerships and business strategy. Martin will be moving from the buy side to the sell side after a nearly eight-year stint at ad agency Goodway Group.

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 […]

Despite a sluggish macroeconomic environment and jittery consumers and businesses, US media ad spend is expected to increase by 3.4% in 2023, according to a Magna forecast released Monday.