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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. In The Slow Lane Dentsu is the latest company to revise its global ad spend forecast downward since its previous report in December. Why? The shaky economy, Adweek reports. Digital dollars, which currently make up close to 60% of all ad spend, will […]

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a test case for how ad tech can be used as an instrument of psychological warfare. But some ad tech companies are fighting back with their own AI-powered tools.

Amazon accounts for more than 40% of retail media’s multibillion-dollar total addressable market. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a big opportunity to scale retailer audiences across the open internet, says Criteo CEO Megan Clarken.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Metaverse’s Second Life? The metaverse has gone from the next big thing to a punchline about the danger of chasing Big Tech’s shiny objects. Even Meta is downplaying its investment in immersive virtual worlds. Yet, despite reports to the contrary, metaverse marketing […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Who Needs Trust And Safety? Big Tech companies are eliminating thousands of positions.  Layoffs have largely impacted trust and safety and AI ethics teams, CNBC reports. Meta announced plans to cut 21,000 jobs in 2023, a culling CEO Mark Zuckerberg described as the […]

From a data-fueled TV upfronts to recent changes in streaming pricing, ad load and bundles, the TV industry is making progress under pressure. Plus: Google’s third-party cookieless plan and new AI features.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Search Continues Instagram now has ads in its search results. Users will see sponsored posts for products when they conduct interest-based searches, such as for skin care, TechCrunch reports. Search is just the latest ad format that Meta is cramming onto Instagram […]

ArcSpan’s new DMP, called AMS, was specifically built to organize a publisher’s first-party data into buyable contextual audiences and also highlights which audiences are likely to drive the most revenue.

Retail media is due for a reality check, according to Max Willens of eMarketer/Insider Intelligence. Willens spoke at the Programmatic I/O conference.

Instead of keeping tabs on static data assets, organizations must adapt to a world in which data is embedded in ubiquitous and rapidly evolving AI tools. 

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cut Us In, Or Cut It Out Twitter is ticked off at Microsoft over data use. Elon Musk outlined his grievances in a letter sent by his personal lawyer, Alex Spiro, to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday, The New York Times reports. […]

In Q1 2024, Chrome will deprecate cookies for 1% of a randomly selected group of Chrome users and slowly expand deprecation to more users throughout the year.

Likes and followers are not without merit, but engagement is not directly causal of sales rates. What should marketers consider instead?

Supply-path optimization conjures an image of SSPs and DSPs dueling it out to each render the other obsolete. But it’s actually not that dramatic.

Andrew Mok, CMO of car-sharing company Turo, explains how Turo taps into data to create a “specific, one-to-one experience” for each customer.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hot For Hulu Comcast is preparing to sell its 33% stake of Hulu to Disney. Disney CEO Bob Iger told investors last week that Comcast and Disney were in talks about Hulu’s fate. On Tuesday, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts confirmed “it’s more likely […]

Data clean room startup Samooha wants to make it easier for marketers who don’t have a data science background to securely access and share data regardless of where it sits. Because the dirty secret about clean rooms is they can be rather difficult for nontechnical people to use.

WaPo partnered with ActionIQ to overhaul how it markets to subscribers throughout the various stages of their subscription life cycle.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Upfront At The Upfront NBCUniversal’s upfront was quite the affair. Executives had to enter Radio City Music Hall through a side door because the entrance was blocked by Writers Guild of America protesters. (Guess Netflix was onto something.) Once everyone was settled, the […]

In addition to buy-side integrations, content curation, proprietary ad formats and flexible pricing models are also helping set SSPs apart.

Podcasting is still growing at a fast clip – two times faster than digital advertising overall. But it’s in the midst of a slowdown. In a sign of the podcasting pullback, Thursday’s IAB Podcast Upfront took place over one day, versus last year’s three-day event.

Cutting out hops in the supply chain means skipping over a DSP or an SSP – especially for video inventory. Plus, inside Cadent’s bid for bankrupt SSP EMX.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. “The DDL Difference” The TV industry says addressability is the future. But there’s more to the picture. This upfront season, Warner Bros. Discovery is combining its addressable and data-driven linear (DDL) tech stacks. These offerings were previously separate prior to the merge of […]

Historically, AppLovin made most of its revenue from its portfolio of apps. Now the company appears to be nearly finished with the bloodletting necessary to transform itself into a primarily software-focused business.

CEO Jeff Green pushed back against the idea that DSPs are increasingly competing with SSPs and vice versa, saying it was a fabrication of the trade press.

A few years ago, when the RMN trend was taking off, who would have thought that retailers would fully embrace the walled garden model. But that’s what appears to be happening.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Prompt And Search-umstance Google is ramping up its AI capabilities for its flagship search product, The Drum reports. During its Google I/O developer conference on Wednesday, the company announced it’s launching Search Labs, an experimental program aimed at expanding AI search functionality. The […]

On the heels of the launch of its latest supply-path optimization product, PubMatic posted $55.4 million in Q1 revenue, growing 2% YOY.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Reeling In The Green Meta reel-y wants to monetize Reels. (Sorry, had to.) Now that the company has abandoned its metaverse plans, it’s getting back to its bread and butter: advertising. The platform is testing a new performance-based pay model for Ads on […]