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Last week, NBCUniversal unveiled the money-making apparatus behind its upcoming streaming service, Peacock. Not surprisingly, NBCU has an ambitious advertising initiative to ensure its bird takes flight. But the introduction of Peacock isn’t significant because it’s introducing a bunch of new NBCU ad formats into the wild. Instead, it marks a major entrant into the […]
Those maniacs. They blew it up! In a Tuesday blog post by Chrome engineer Justin Schuh, Google announced its fateful decision to stop supporting third-party cookies within two years. But whether or not you’re slamming your forehead repeatedly into the panic button depends on who you are in the ad industry. This week on The […]
This week on The Big Story, we check in at CES, ground zero for meatless sausages. It’s also where programmatic people have resumed their 2019 freak-out about the California Consumer Privacy Act and death of the cookie – but for good reason. The uncertainty there didn’t vanish over the holidays, as we’d all hoped. Meanwhile, […]
It’s the last episode of the year, and the AdExchanger team looks at the biggest moments and biggest personalities that rocked the advertising industry from 2010 to 2020. If the early 2000s were about innovation and finding new ways to transact advertising, then the 2010s were about maturation and cleaning up the Wild West that […]
Here’s your pre-holiday call to action: Flag your cookies. In February, Google’s Chrome browser will stop sending third-party cookie requests cross-site, unless they’re flagged using SameSite internet standard. What in the Sam Hill does that even mean? Listen to this week’s episode of The Big Story – or read Allison Schiff’s meticulous breakdown of what […]
The TV revolution is in full swing, as ratings decline, prices increase, viewers leave for non-ad supported services and new entrants offer video inventory. This week on The Big Story, we look at recent ad forecasts showing that the ratings decline is catching up to the TV market. In other words, the high prices broadcasters […]
As much as Amazon’s advertising platform has grown in recent years, will it ever surpass Google or Facebook? This week on The Big Story, the AdExchanger team looks at that question, and addresses some of the factors holding Amazon Advertising back – from availability of inventory, availability of data and the usability of its technology. […]
Even with doom-and-gloom headlines, our AdExchanger community has much to be thankful for. In a special Thanksgiving episode of The Big Story, we asked our readers and listeners, “What are you grateful for in ad tech?” As it turns out, many see a world of regulation and cookie pressure from a glass half-full perspective. They […]
Programmatic auction dynamics can be arcane, even for the most technical among us. Google has Open Bidding (nee Exchange Bidding), Amazon’s got Transparent Ad Marketplace (TAM) and Prebid predates them both, not to mention a host of other wrappers on the scene. But what do buyers, exchanges and publishers have to say – and, more […]
Everyone has an opinion about the death of the cookie, especially the ones who have something to sell. That something could be a product that will help alleviate the pain of the cookie going away, or targeted media that relies heavily on cookies. It’s hard to get a straight answer, and as Sarah Sluis and […]
