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A new campaign from Bombay Sapphire, which launched on Wednesday with spokesperson and “Elvis” director Baz Luhrmann, combines influencer-led social media interactions with the goal of building a loyal customer base that’s (hopefully) willing to share personal information. Bombay Sapphire is looking to generate the kind of lift in brand awareness and affinity that can lead users to intentionally opt into future promotional efforts.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. At What Point Do We Reference Myspace? Meta faces an existential crisis. It was a trillion-dollar company one year ago and is now worth a mere $370 billion. “Mere” is relative – that’s still big. But this is a make-or-break moment for Meta. CNBC […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ads Vs. Cachet The New York Times isn’t shy about castigating Meta for its central role in the creeptastic-sounding surveillance economy. But NYT is following the Facebook playbook of acquiring cool, ad-free properties, giving them a few months to acclimate, then plugging them […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Winning The News But Losing The War Twitter trails Snapchat, Pinterest and LinkedIn when it comes to active users. (And it’s not even worth comparing the size of Twitter’s user base to YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or TikTok.)  But there is one category in […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Insta Needs Its Groove Back Instagram has (mostly) been able to balance its business priorities with the interests of its users. But its streak is over. Instagram is struggling to recruit people to create content for its TikTok clone, Reels, The Wall Street […]

Bill Watkins, a 9-year Pinterest veteran in sales who was named CRO this year, says the company is focusing on three main pillars: its creator ecosystem, facilitating shopping and ad-based monetization.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Topics Of Concern The Chrome Topics API, Google’s proposed third-party-cookie replacement, may perpetuate problems that plagued digital advertising and which the product aims to solve, writes Aram Zucker-Scharff, The Washington Post’s engineering lead for privacy and security, in a personal blog post. If […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Compromise For Google Google’s reported offer to US regulators as a bid to avoid an antitrust suit was to spin off part of its ad business. But that news apparently landed with a thud.  The Department of Justice is poised to move […]

Commerce and creator monetization are Pinterest’s two main priorities right now, said Jeremy King, the company’s SVP and head of engineering. King, who is also the former CTO of Walmart’s ecommerce business – he joined Pinterest in 2019 – said that the convergence of creator revenue potential with social media-based shopping and product discovery by consumers “will make Pinterest functional, versus purely inspirational.”

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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. 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, […]

Pinterest announced the rollout of additional ecommerce-focused offerings at its second-annual Pinterest Presents advertiser summit on Thursday, including a tool to identify trends, ads to monetize idea pins and an API that allows partners to tap into Pinterest’s first-party data.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. You Got Peltzed Unilever will cut jobs and reorganize to fend off activist investor Trian Fund Management, led by Nelson Peltz, The Wall Street Journal reports.  Peltz unseated a Procter & Gamble board member in a shocking shareholder vote in 2017 – winning […]

Party Like It’s 95 Google Chrome 95, the latest browser version, was released from beta on Wednesday. It won’t make marketers quake in their boots, but this is the first version of Chrome that will allow people to opt in to a reduced user-agent string, which is the data passed to a site operator regarding […]

Pinterest’s big bet on social commerce continues. Pinterest added several shopping-focused features on Wednesday, including a new spin on shoppable video, the ability for creators to tag brands they want to collaborate with and the option for merchants to feature brand values, such as “woman-owned” or “eco-friendly business,” directly on their profile. Merchants can now […]

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. ATT Impact Deferred Anyone looking for evidence of harm to mobile app giants by Apple’s AppTrackingTransparency move last quarter may well come up empty. Digital advertising is outgrowing other media channels and will likely continue doing so. “The permeable advantage of digital ads should […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Serious Music Move over, Howard Stern. SiriusXM is trying to attract younger listeners with the launch of a TikTok music channel called (you guessed it) TikTok Radio. The service will broadcast trending music through the SiriusXM app, browsers and connected devices. Sirius – which […]

Pinterest and Shopify have globally expanded a social commerce partnership that launched last year. The partnership began in the United States and Canada with the Pinterest Shopify app, which allows businesses to quickly upload their product catalogs to Pinterest and convert them into shoppable Product Pins. The app is now available in 27 other countries, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Not So Safe Eighty percent of the more than 3.3 billion pieces of content removed from social media platforms – including Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest and Snapchat – is either spam, adult or explicit content, or hate speech, according to a new report from the […]

Pinterest has three main priorities for 2021 and beyond: video, making its trend data actionable and shopping. On Wednesday, at Pinterest’s first-ever partner and advertiser summit event, hosted virtually, of course, it made announcements related to all three. “We had a big year in 2020, and we want our advertisers to know more about the […]

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The ad boycott against Facebook this past summer had little impact on its bottom line. But the boycott did appear to create an opportunity for second-tier social media platforms, such as Snapchat and Pinterest. “A large share of the accelerated growth we saw from those companies in the third quarter [of 2020] was almost certainly […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. New Crew With Biden in the White House, the Federal Trade Commissions and the Federal Communications Commission are playing the usual game of musical chairs triggered by a new administration. The Republican heads of both agencies – Ajit Pai at the FCC and Joe […]

Ad verification company DoubleVerify said Tuesday it is launching a tool in January that will help advertisers take a more nuanced approach to their brand suitability needs. DoubleVerify said it is rolling out the “next evolution” of its brand safety and suitability solution, Brand Suitability Tiers, which will allow advertisers, publishers and platforms to speak […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Quibi Bites The Dust Quibi will shut down its service a mere six months after launch, becoming one of the first – and most spectacular – casualties in the video streaming wars. It is a remarkable flameout for a company that had raised $1.75 billion before […]

Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Amid this year’s great reordering of fortunes, Pinterest has been one of the lucky ones. The platform’s monthly users grew more than 40% in the second quarter, to 415 million. The expansion is led by new international users […]