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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Spare Me Your Change Welcome to the new normal!  Actually, forget the exclamation mark. It’s the same old normal.  There are countless examples of so-called dramatic changes in how people shopped and spent their time throughout 2020 and 2021 – Zoom, Peloton, sweatpants, […]

TripleLift, once a scrappy gen-two ad tech startup (though by now a grizzled programmatic veteran), announced its first-ever acquisition on Monday, spending $150 million for Swiss publisher data company 1plusX. The acquisition is meant to bolster TripleLift’s two-pronged focus on CTV and identity, TripleLift Chief Strategy Officer and co-founder Ari Lewine told AdExchanger.

Prebid hired Mike Racic as the industry group’s first president. Prebid’s growing membership numbers and the expanded scope of projects taken on by its committees necessitated hiring a leader who could focus full time on running Prebid as a company, Racic said.

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Keep It Clean Clean room?  More like a mud room. It’s where people can leave their “dirty” (read: private first-party) data without ruining the rest of the house.  The marketer point of view often goes something like this: “‘Our data is going to […]

The Trade Desk and Adobe Experience Cloud announced a partnership on Thursday to sync emails stored in the Adobe CDP product with The Trade Desk, which converts the emails into Unified ID 2.0 (UID2) IDs that can be traded programmatically. Advertisers and publishers have moved away from DMPs and other cookie-based advertising ID solutions in […]

Ask five people about the potential of connected TV (CTV) and you’re likely to get 10 different answers. That’s because CTV is massively misunderstood, even though it’s one of the fastest-growing channels in digital advertising, writes Michael Tuminello, VP of strategy at Mediaocean.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Dos Va Donya IPONWEB founder and CEO Boris Mouzykantskii published an open letter and update on the company’s actions since the start of the war in Ukraine.  There was theoretical concern the war would be a wrench in the $380 million acquisition of IPONWEB […]

Adobe is leaning on AI-powered data solutions to bridge the post-cookie identity gap. This fits into Adobe’s broader strategy of using a mixture of automation and artificial intelligence to figure out what people are looking for and to predict how brands can demonstrate value for customers in the moments that matter.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Courting Disaster A California district court judge has scathingly reprimanded Google’s legal team. Google requested to withhold 6,232 of 6,322 documents in a privacy suit brought by Chrome users.  Google “cavalierly” claimed the review was justified but had no justification to support its claim, […]

Solitaire remains a popular mainstay in app-based gaming – and it’s the next frontier for cookieless advertising. Pubfinity, an SSP that places ads in Windows-based desktop game apps like Simple Solitaire, is hitching itself to Epsilon’s cookieless identity solution, Core ID.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. How “About” That? The Office of the California Attorney General issued a potentially impactful decision this week. Heads-up, ad tech companies: Inferences made about customers or consumers can be classified as personal information, even when the constituent data pieces aren’t personal or are gathered […]

CTV is the hot new programmatic media channel, but it suffers from fraud, a lack of clear media-buying signals and a hodgepodge of approaches to measurement. The lack of standards is hampering market growth – but rather than waiting for standards to be handed down, publishers can create positive momentum with media buyers now, writes PubMatic’s Nicole Scaglione.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Jedi Black And Blue The EU and UK opened investigations into Google and Facebook’s ad-serving partnership that allegedly diverted funds from header bidding Friday.  “Via the so-called ‘Jedi Blue’ agreement between Google and Meta, a competing technology to Google’s Open Bidding may have been […]

As an industry, we’re guilty of procrastination. With just months until third-party cookies are deprecated, so many advertisers are still twiddling their thumbs. But procrastinating is a curious and dangerous approach, writes Nitin Rabadia, commercial director of Kepler Group.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Losing My Religion “I have to ask you about advertising. Otherwise, I won’t be able to leave this room alive.” That was Ben Swinburne, head of media industry research at Morgan Stanley, speaking to Netflix CFO Spence Neumann at the bank’s Tech, Media […]

Google’s communications on the Topics API in the Chrome Privacy Sandbox suggest a broad, coarse-grained approach to targeting. But the limited information shared to date leaves many questions unanswered, writes Eric Schmitt, research director at Gartner.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Don’t Hate, Verifi … cate  The newspaper company Gannett, best-known for publishing USA Today, misrepresented ads in programmatic auctions over the course of nine months until just last week. In many cases, the inaccurate ads were seemingly bound for the flagship USA Today site […]

The biggest reason marketers aren’t shifting their linear TV dollars to CTV is the lack of visibility into where their ads are going, said Lisa Utzschneider, CEO of Integral Ad Science. In attempt to bridge that gap, IAS is tying its contextual tech into its CTV strategy, which started maturing after the company bought the video ad server Publica last summer.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Swiftly Goes The Retail Long Tail The retail media startup Swiftly raised $100 million, on top of $20 million raised since 2019. It’s an eye-popping number, despite no valuation, and will cheer other retail advertising startups that hope smaller chains can seize the […]

Former physicist Melinda Han Williams used to spend her time studying “electronic transport in nanostructured graphene devices.” These days, as chief data scientist at Dstillery, she’s creating identifier-free solutions to transport us past the end of third-party cookies.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ad-Unsupported Video On Demand Disney confirmed it will launch an ad-supported tier of Disney Plus, following in the footsteps of other studios, including previously ad-free legends like HBO that now sell ads.  But Wall Street isn’t buying the hype. CTV remains unchartered waters. But […]

In a cookieless world, attribution is old news. To future-proof, it’s time to focus on incrementality: the measure of supplemental business results that a campaign drives in aggregate, says Ryan Green, vice president of marketing and innovation at Coegi. 

Integral Ad Science is chasing two shiny trends – contextual targeting and connected TV – as the company charts a course in digital measurement and ad verification. The growth plan has generated, well, growth. IAS earned $323.5 million last year, up by more than a third from 2020, the company reported in its quarterly earnings report on Thursday. Though Integral’s net loss grew year-over-year as well, from $32 million to $52 million.

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The “Go” In Google There are two important privacy issues at the top of EU regulator agendas right now: a GDPR case against IAB Europe and Schrems II cases targeting Google Analytics.  On the one hand, IAB Europe supporters seem heartened, counterintuitively, after […]

The Trade Desk recently made waves with the rollout of OpenPath, its direct-to-publisher offering, and its plan to turn off Google Open Bidding, a one-two punch in supply path optimization (SPO). Both of these SPO moves could reshuffle the ad buying ecosystem, making publishers less reliant on SSPs and cutting off a revenue source for Google’s Open Bidding.

Who’s going to serve as the administrator for Unified ID 2.0? Not the IAB Tech Lab. Earlier this week, CEO Anthony Katsur noted in a blog post (almost offhandedly) that the Tech Lab has decided not to take on the technical admin role for UID 2.0 “at this point.”

Ad agencies have had an oversupply of crises to deal with over the past two years. Between the pandemic, the ongoing disruption of how the ad industry gathers and uses data and the Great Resignation, leaders have contended with outside forces on multiple fronts. Kepler’s CEO of North America Remy Stiles details how she’s keeping the ship steering in the right direction.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Not Kidding Around  During the State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Biden called on lawmakers to get cracking on legislation that bans ads targeted at kids. “It’s time to ban targeted advertising to children, [and to] demand tech companies stop collecting personal […]