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Ad tech companies are looking to expand beyond the content recommendation box to run display ads across the open web. Taboola and Outbrain have been closing acquisitions to make it happen – but other public companies like Google, Apple and Amazon are financially poised to compete, writes Alon Rosenthal, CEO & Founder of WhizzCo.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Improved Transparency (Sure … ) The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) has launched a certification program for addressable media identifiers (AMIs), which have become super important since ATT.  If you haven’t heard of AMIs, don’t worry. It’s not a common term, at least not […]

TripleLift claims that it’s the world’s largest source of in-feed inventory. But can the same ad experience work for CTV? Native product placements in programming could be a viable alternative to interruptive ad experiences – and a cash cow for CTV publishers – but it’s not very scalable and it’s hard to execute, says Michael Shields, GM of CTV at TripleLift.

Having one model for assigning credit to outside marketing partners and a separate model for earning credit within your organization is a no-win for marketers and their enterprises – you need a single attribution and measurement strategy. The key is to deploy a unified strategy that works both within your organization and across your mix of media partners, says Rudy Grahn, attribution and measurement global strategy lead at Prohaska Consulting.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Squeaky-Clean Apple Apple was charged in the EU with boxing out wallet apps and payments, using its monopolistic power to force consumers to use Apple Pay, The Wall Street Journal reports.  Outside payment services particularly want access to one-touch or mobile contactless purchase […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Do Publishers Run The IAB Again? Publishers are “in a privileged position” in the new world of privacy-first advertising, Benjamin Dick, the IAB Tech Lab’s senior director of product, said at an event hosted by the group last week, covered by Marketing Brew.  Without […]

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the ad tech industry took steps to freeze Russian-owned media companies out of the advertising ecosystem. But programmatic technology continues to be used by parties on both sides of the conflict as a platform to conduct psychological warfare.

Amazon disappointed investors with a $3.8 billion net loss in Q1 this year, its first quarterly loss in the past six years, plus online sales ticked down 1%. Amazon Advertising, however, did not disappoint. “Advertising revenue was up 25% year over year, and that’s a strong run rate compared to the revenue growth rate,” CFO Brian Olsavsky told investors.

Direct-sold inventory is still big business for publishers. But processing insertion orders and campaign reconciliation between buyers and sellers has been an often tedious and mostly manual process. To reduce the strain on its ad ops staff, Vice Media is testing an integration between the sell-side order management platform Boostr and Prisma, Mediaocean’s digital advertising campaign management offering.

Well, here’s the most ad techy thing ever: Clean room platform InfoSum is integrating with Unified ID 2.0 to expand how advertisers can use their first-party data in the bidstream. Omnicom Media Group is one of the first buy-side partners planning to take advantage of the integration.

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Publishers that pack their ad servers with hundreds of thousands of line items can go ahead and clear them out: Google Ad Manager is building a connection to Prebid to better support header bidding

Walmart has The Trade Desk. Target’s Roundel uses Index Exchange as an SSP and taps Criteo and CitrusAds on the demand side. Quotient lost the grocery chain Albertson’s but signed exclusive contracts with AutoZone and Hy-Vee. CitrusAds picked up part of the Albertson’s ad tech business. The new varieties of retailer walled gardens are built on a foundation of open ad tech.

Google’s FLEDGE proposal presents an opportunity for a more transparent bidding process. But there are concerns around whether FLEDGE will treat all supply-side platforms (SSPs) equally in programmatic auctions within Google’s marketplace, writes RTB House’s Lukasz Wlodarczyk. Remember Google’s secret Jedi Blue agreement with Meta (formerly known as Facebook)?

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Take It To The Max Google has introduced a new targeting parameter for Performance Max campaigns. Soon, all advertisers will be able to use “customer acquisition goals” to guide their campaigns.  Performance Max is less than two years old, but it’s already taking […]

Does IAB Tech Lab CEO Tony Katsur have the toughest gig in ad tech? That’s an “accurate description,” Katsur says on this week’s episode. It’s his job, among many other things, to spearhead and speed up Project Rearc, an ambitious industry effort to press reset on how personalized advertising works online.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. RIP, DTC. LUV, ATT. The Q1 earnings reports for 2022 are starting to trickle in, and young DTC brands are still suffering under the weight of their marketing costs following the hit from Apple’s ad policy changes. Manscaped, the men’s grooming brand, grew revenue […]

The complexity and lack of transparency in the programmatic ad buying ecosystem makes it hard to understand who you’re buying from and how big of a bite they’re taking out of a buyer’s ad spend. Hence the need for supply path optimization (SPO). Simply put, SPO is about buyers identifying the most efficient connections and using them to transact with sellers. The goal is to stop buying through inefficient or expensive paths to supply.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Shape Up Or Shop Out Parallel news items reinforce the massive relative advantage for Amazon and its ad business compared with Facebook and Shopify in the wake of Apple’s data privacy overhaul. For years, rumors flew that Facebook was angling to acquire Shopify, The […]

The day has finally come – Netflix is considering ads after it lost 200,000 subscribers in Q1, the streamer’s first subscriber loss in a decade. It won’t be easy, but Netflix will need to find a way to keep customers (and their wallets) satisfied. Ads will be a slow rollout that Netflix hopes to phase in within a year or two, CEO Reed Hastings said on Tuesday’s earnings call.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Sharpening Their Tools Privacy and antitrust enforcement is thorny enough. But coverage often misses the most important fact: Some companies are more popular targets, and others are not. A $75 billion Google or Amazon acquisition of Activision Blizzard would be challenged. Microsoft’s deal for […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. I See You … Tube DoubleVerify has gained MRC accreditation as a third-party measurement provider of viewability reporting on YouTube.  Specifically, the seal covers DoubleVerify’s access to YouTube site and in-app page-level information via Ads Data Hub, the cloud service that houses Google’s […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Movers And Shakers Did you feel that?  There have been some seismic moves lately in Ad Tech Land – not even counting M&A or privacy rules.  Stephanie Layser, longtime leader of News Corp.’s advertising technology, is taking her talents to the cloud. She […]

With FLEDGE origin trials just begun – they finally kicked off on March 31 after multiple delays – publishers and advertisers need to get up to speed. But how is FLEDGE different from other targeting-focused proposals within the Chrome Privacy Sandbox, what use cases does it support and – most importantly – is FLEDGE a viable and privacy-safe alternative to third-party cookies?

Recently, McCormick brand Frank’s Redhot placed banner ads inside Basketball Battle, a free-to-play 2D basketball game developed for mobile devices. A proprietary metric from Frameplay, an in-game advertising company which uses computer vision to measure the viewability of in-game ads, monitored how long the ad remained visible to the player and compared these results to attention metrics for more established channels like social media.

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Clean Rooms Get Messy The point of clean room tech is to safeguard user data by limiting access to that data while still allowing it to be queried for analytics or ID matches. But does the proliferation of clean room services – and the […]

Roughly three years ago, dairy and food manufacturer Land O’Lakes tested a customer data platform (CDP) to help with site optimization. People who visited pages about horse management, for example, or how to set up a home chicken coop, were targeted with relevant ads. Land O’Lakes sells farm feed and equipment, not just products you […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Take Rate Takeaways The fees collected by intermediaries in the ad supply chain vary widely, according to new research from consulting firm Adalytics. On one extreme, they could leave publishers collecting as little as 2% of a buyer’s bid price, Morning Brew reports.  […]

The app-based phone service TextNow, which offers free calls and texting subsidized by ads, is especially vulnerable to the ongoing deprecation of mobile device IDs. So TextNow started testing alternate IDs, turning to InMobi’s UnifID and LiveRamp’s Authenticated Traffic Solution (ATS) and RampID.