This article is sponsored by Xandr. To an outsider, advertising can often be perceived as glorified and theatrical. While at times true, in reality advertising is the means to an end for a particular business goal. The goals vary across industries. In healthcare, for example, it might be educating communities about COVID vaccinations, while in […]
IPG’s marketing intelligence firm Kinesso has hired Dr. Femi Olu-Lafe as the SVP of culture and inclusion. Olu–Lafe was brought on to push the needle on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across Kinesso and its sister IPG companies, Acxiom and Matterkind. Olu-Lafe – previously a senior leader and DEI consultant at YSC Consulting and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Socially Awkward When big tech critic Sen. Amy Klobuchar requests that you attend an antitrust hearing, it’s best that you listen. Apple stoked Klobuchar’s ire and that of Sen. Mike Lee when the company reportedly refused to make anyone available to testify at a […]
This article is sponsored by the Post-IDFA Alliance, including Chartboost, Fyber, InMobi, Liftoff, Singular, Adcolony and Vungle. When it comes to the impending App Tracking and Transparency (ATT) framework that is included in the iOS 14.5 update, everyone has their own opinion. There are those who believe Apple has truly altruistic motives to deliver greater […]
As ecommerce advertising becomes more expensive on Facebook, Jeremy Bloom, co-founder and chief revenue officer of tech startup Marpipe, said that brands need to take a data-driven approach to creative testing instead of relying on antiquated “spray and pray” A/B testing methods. Marpipe was founded by 26-year-old CEO Dan Pantelo and last year launched an […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Please, Mr. President Google is asking President Biden to take action as European regulators pursue more robust regulation of the industry. (Where did we leave our tiny violin?) According to CNBC, Karan Bhatia, Google’s VP of government affairs and policy, said in a blog […]
How to manage the tradeoff between personalized advertising and privacy is a familiar debate. Whether personalized advertising – or advertising, full stop – works is a less common direction. But in a debate organized by Facebook (surprise!) between IAB CEO Randall Rothenberg and “Subprime Attention Crisis” author Tim Hwang, Hwang challenged the widely accepted notion […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Carolina Abenante, co-founder of NYIAX. The advertising industry is undergoing a paradigm shift, moving toward a model where audience data is currency. But with Google ending support of third-party cookies […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Raising CAID Procter & Gamble took part in early tests by Chinese trade groups and tech companies to bypass Apple’s upcoming privacy changes, according to The Wall Street Journal. P&G experimented with the so-called CAID (China Advertising ID), which uses unique device attributes to […]
On Thursday, Publicis-owned Epsilon became the latest company to support Unified ID 2.0. UID 2.0 is an open-source industry initiative, originated by The Trade Desk, that aims to develop an alternative to third-party cookies by replacing them with hashed or encrypted email addresses. Specifically, Publicis clients can activate Epsilon’s proprietary CORE ID (which stands for […]
It’s no surprise that premium video — commercially produced, long-form episodic video — commands much higher premiums than standard digital video, but recent research from Standard Media Index (SMI) showed just how much. SMI found that average premium video CPMs were nearly two times higher at 192% of the total digital video market, and accounted […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Violation Rate To demonstrate that it can be effective at finding and removing rule-breaking videos, YouTube will start disclosing a new metric called the Violative View Rate. Essentially, it’s the percentage of total views going to videos that run afoul of YouTube’s guidelines before […]
Internet advertising made a huge rebound in Q4, growing 29% YoY to $45.6 billion, according to the 2020 IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report. “Q4 was the best quarter we have ever seen in 20 years,” said David Cohen, president of the IAB. Overall online advertising in 2020 grew 12% YoY to $140 billion. “The fact […]
Consider 2021 the age of consent. The end of third-party cookies is pushing nearly everyone in the supply chain to try to figure out how to get consumers to opt in – including a growing number of ad tech companies that are attempting to create their own consumer-facing consent mechanisms. It’s a new and largely […]
Marketers can build better customer experiences if they can find their customers as they pop up in different parts of their buying journey – visiting the website, buying a product in an Instagram story, viewing an ad or seeking customer support. To enable this visibility, LiveRamp built a native connection into Google Cloud Platform. Previously, […]
Local news publishers aren’t waiting around for ad tech vendors to solve their third-party cookie problems for them. In late March, the Local Media Consortium (LMC) launched NewsPassID, a single sign-on solution and ad network, designed to help the 5,000 local publishers represented by the LMC to aggregate their first-party data and clean up their […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Grabbing Share Watch out, Google and Facebook – Amazon is catching up. According to eMarketer, Amazon’s share of the digital ad market in the United States grew to 10.3% last year, up from 7.8% in 2019, The Wall Street Journal reports. It’s expected to make […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Luke Taylor, COO at TrafficGuard. The purpose of advertising is to influence behavior. But in Google’s search environment, it’s worth considering: Are your ads influencing behavior, or mainly serving as […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What Happened, Adobe? Adobe once avidly pursued digital advertising, but its passion has cooled. Insider’s Lauren Johnson spoke with five former employees to understand what happened. A big part of the reason was an unwillingness to do anything that isn’t self-serve, culminating in the […]
Seven ad tech companies made transactions valued at over $1 billion in the first quarter of 2021 – double the amount that’s happened in the past few years combined. “We’ve got a perfect storm here of different forces lining up, which created such a strong quarter,” said Conor McKenna, LUMA Partners director. The ad tech […]
Criteo has started testing the single sign-on (SSO) solution – called OpenPass – that will serve as the consumer-facing component of Unified ID 2.0, the open source industry initiative that aims to use email as an alternative to third-party cookies. In November, Criteo was one of the first companies to join Unified ID 2.0, which is […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. CTV Winning Google Ad Manager’s second annual Advanced TV Inventory Report is out, and surprise! Connected TV was a big winner during the pandemic last year. The report analyzed 35 global advanced TV partners. In Q2 2020 — at the height of the downturn […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What, Me Worried? Google’s planned elimination of third-party cookies has big brands revamping their data strategies, but some aren’t too worried about the looming restrictions that won’t allow individual ad targeting. Per the Wall Street Journal, Bacardi has expressed confidence in its ability to […]
This week, Vista Equity Partners said it would acquire a majority stake in TripleLift, reportedly investing $1.4 billion. The deal is expected to close in Q2. $1.4 billion is a big chunk of change – and a big story. In this episode, the AdExchanger team welcomes Ari Lewine, TripleLift cofounder and chief strategy officer, to […]
The end of the third-party cookie won’t happen for nearly a year, but thanks to GDPR, Axel Springer was prepared for the shift: the publisher hasn’t used third-party data in the ad campaigns it sells since the end of 2018. Instead, it’s shored up its technology, working to create scalable first-party data. The German news […]
Comcast Technology Solutions (CTS) has integrated TV ad server Innovid’s ad tech into its Ad Management Platform as part of an effort to unify linear and digital ad campaign management. The combination will help automate workflow processes, including creative ad management, performance analytics and optimization across screens and channels for both linear TV and online […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. New Specifications The IAB Tech Lab is rolling out new specs, this time for the buy-side, around transparency and brand safety: big topics of conversation these days. IAB has released two new technology standards — buyers.json and DemandChain Object — that are open for […]
Let the FLoC testing begin (but not in Europe, yet). On Tuesday, Chrome started rolling out initial origin testing of its Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) proposal with a small percentage of users in the United States and across Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand and Philippines. “FLoC is still in development and […]
Congress is taking another swing at a federal privacy framework. Wonder what the odds are on Kalshi.
Good news for advertisers, many of whom have found it difficult to meet minimum spend budgets on ChatGPT: Logged-out users can now see ads.
The Amazon advertising boycott last week wasn’t really about Amazon’s ad platform as much as it was a dispute over evolving seller economics, which raises a fundamental question: Can you even build a brand on Amazon anymore?
For the first time, Unity’s gaming audiences will be available for ad targeting outside the Unity platform, with Index Exchange using Unity’s data to curate web and CTV inventory.
Agentic commerce company Envive builds on-site agents for brands like footwear company Clove, painting a clearer picture of what their customers are looking for.
Paramount might have outlasted and outbid Netflix in the competition to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, but Netflix is not overly fussed about the loss.
