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Is Bing Chat Ready For Ads? (NO); Agencies See Green
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bing Chat Is … Weird Microsoft’s AI-enabled Bing search is making waves for all the wrong reasons. In early tests, the new Bing produced unhinged results that ranged from an aggressive know-it-all who’s constantly wrong to a jilted lover … to a robot […]
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Can You Teach A Copycat New Tricks?; Wojcicki Out, Mohan Up
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The round-up will return Tuesday, February 21, in observance of the Presidents’ Day holiday. Thanks, George and Abe, for the long weekend! The Clone Wars Every few months, social platforms align on a shiny new object … that’s really just another version of […]
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Instagram Is Shopped Out Already; How Many People Watched The Super Bowl?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Shop ’Til You Drop Instagram will shut down the ability to tag items and direct people to a sale during a livestream, TechCrunch reports. The feature had been available since 2020 and was part of Meta’s overall push into more direct payments after […]
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IAC You On The Other Side; Chatbots Nail The Rehearsal But Aren’t Ready For Showtime
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Dot Dot Dot – Dash Dash Dash – Dot Dot Dot Dotdash Meredith is feeling the same pain as many others amid a pullback in advertising. And IAC’s revenue woes were compounded by soft consumer demand, which dinged its affiliate marketing business, according […]
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OPINION: Ad Exchange NewsCanadians Say No-Can-Do; Streaming Of The Good Old Days
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Don’t Label Me Canada is coming for digital platforms like YouTube, TikTok, Spotify and Netflix with legislation that requires the services to feature Canadian content in country. The new law extends regulations already in place for domestic TV and radio stations to abide […]
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Getting Serious About Casual Games; Wait, Is Congress For Real About Something?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Crushin’ It Because Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard is still in the air, the Candy Crush owner didn’t host an earnings call. But Activision Blizzard did share a Q4 earnings summary, which included some revealing nuggets about what it takes for ad-supported […]
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AppLovin Spikes On Ambitious Guidance; The First-Party Data Bowl
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. AppLovin You … Next Quarter AppLovin didn’t have a very good Q4 by the numbers, but shares leaped by 30% after the company reported earnings on Wednesday. What gives? Although revenue declined 11% year over year to $702 million, AppLovin still beat analyst […]
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The (NY) Times, It Is A-Changin’; Amazon Spends Money To Make Money
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Sign Of The Times The New York Times beat expectations for Q4 2022 thanks to a strong subscription bundling push, according to its earnings report. But digital ad revenue was only up a smidge. The Times added 240,000 net digital subscribers in […]
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Criteo Is Shopping For A New Owner; Meet The TikTok De-Influencers
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Retargeting A Sale Criteo, a stalwart of independent ad tech, is shopping its business to potential buyers, Reuters reports. No deal is imminent, and this isn’t the first time Criteo has tested the waters. In 2021, Criteo went through a sale review but […]
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Can TikTok Win Search Budgets?; How Ad Spend Floats Downstream
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. I Don’t Speak TikTok TikTok introduced search ad campaigns last year. But it’s a tough sell, especially considering TikTok’s organic traction. TikTok has a strong consumer pitch, which happens to be the focus of its new ad campaign, but advertisers are wary, Marketing […]
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The Cloud And Clean Room Double Whammy; Spending Money To Make Money
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Heads In The Clouds Amazon Advertising and AWS are bolstering one another in pursuit of marketing budgets, Digiday reports. Both Amazon and Google have deeply intertwined their advertising and cloud businesses via clean rooms, which provide an advertising service built on cloud-based privacy […]
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Living With Ad Fraud; Are You Seeing Red Or Green?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. In Residence Residential IP networks (Honeygain, EarnApp and Pawns.app, to name a few) are services that pay people for access to their IP, usually something like $25 to $75 per month, depending on how much data they share. It’s a useful service for […]
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Opting Out Of Google’s Topics API Won’t Affect Search; Meet SteamDB, The Last Pure Site
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. New Topic, Please Google recently published its latest quarterly progress report to the CMA, the UK’s antitrust regulator, regarding its Chrome Privacy Sandbox proposals – and there are several notable updates from last quarter. For one, Google is considering page-level metadata for the Topics […]
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HBO Max’s Loss Is Tubi And Roku’s Gain; ANA And 4A’s Denounce David Cohen’s ALM Remarks
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Lost And Found If you’re wondering what happened to all the titles HBO Max just cut, they were rehomed across two other streaming platforms. On Tuesday, Warner Bros. Discovery announced that it’s making more than 220 canceled titles available on Roku and Tubi […]
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Start Your Search Engines; Truth In Badvertising
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Let The Search Begin The long-dormant search category is rousing. Microsoft recently invested $10 billion in OpenAI, maker of machine learning content creation software DALL-E (for images) and ChatGPT (for text responses), with plans to test ChatGPT’s returns for Bing searches. Meanwhile, Amazon […]
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Not-So-Super Bowl Ads; All-In On ARPU
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Big Lame Last year’s Super Bowl ads are noteworthy, in retrospect, for those cringeworthy crypto spots, including for disgraced crypto exchange FTX. Don’t worry, though, nobody’s learned anything. This year, advertisers are leaning into controversy and making decisions they could come to […]
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Losing The Surveillance War; Meta And BuzzFeed, Together Again
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Battle Lines Drawn The online advertising industry is struggling with its own brand perception. Nomenclature like “fingerprinting” doesn’t help, and over the past few years programmatic has been caught up in a vortex of negative opinions. Terms such as “surveillance capitalism” and even […]
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Twitter Wants To Be Seen As Brand Suitable; Does Anyone Have Streaming ARPU Right?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Better Sorry Than Safe Twitter is partnering with DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science on brand safety. Gotta do something to woo back its advertisers. “Through custom-built solutions for Twitter’s feed environment, these tests have shown that more than 99% of measured impressions appeared […]
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The Trade Desk Tests Its Agency Legacy; Google’s Agency Relationships Change, Too
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trade Punches In 2016, The Trade Desk cracked open the DSP market by sticking with agencies. DSPs such as Turn and TubeMogul attempted to go brand-direct but were dropped by agencies and AppNexus, the top dog DSP at the time, refashioned itself as […]
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Rev Shares Are In Short Supply; Will Ads Save Or Ruin Netflix?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Shorts Deal YouTube’s expansion of revenue sharing to Shorts is a classic move – but with a pretty big twist, Digiday reports. Normally, Google cuts creators in on the ads it serves during or right before their video. But with Shorts, which is a […]
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Lay Off With The Layoffs Already; How TikTok Turns Up The Heat
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Black Friday The new year is only a few weeks old and there have already been multiple waves of crushing tech layoffs. On Friday, Alphabet added to the carnage with the news that it’s cutting 12,000 jobs – its largest-ever reduction. The Google cuts […]
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YouTube Regains Top Billing At VidCon; A ‘Vastflux’ Of Fraud
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The New You YouTube is once again the title sponsor of VidCon, Tubefilter reports. It lost that honor last year (after seven years of top billing) when TikTok took its place for the 2022 show, which was the first VidCon following a three-year […]
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TikTok Quietly Gets Into Podcasts; Are Consumers Searching For A New Search Engine?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Listening Ears Hear that? It’s the sound of TikTok doing the podcasting thing. Insider reports that TikTok is testing a new “Podcasts” feature that allows users to continue listening to a program while TikTok runs in the background. Typically, leaving the app automatically pauses […]
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Apple Versus GDPR; Netflix Bulls Versus Netflix Bears
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What Sorcery Is This The CNIL, France’s data protection authority, has been busy lately. The agency fined TikTok earlier this week, Apple a week before that and, on Tuesday, decided a case that could have important ramifications for ad tracking on iOS. What’s […]
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A MiQ-Drop Moment For Samba Ad Sales; Award Shows Must Escape Linear
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. It Takes Two ACR data and ad analytics firm Samba TV’s media sales business is now in the hands of programmatic firm MiQ, Deadline reports. As part of the multiyear commercial partnership, MiQ will directly handle all of Samba’s former sales operations. Meanwhile, […]
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Putting The ‘Intern’ In Internet; Will Google Play ChatGPT Whac-A-Mole?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. AdExchanger’s daily news round-up will return on Tuesday, January 17. We will not be publishing any content on Monday, January 16, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Nonhuman Capital Is AI the new intern? For one agency, the answer is “yes.” […]
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Germany Hits Google For Commingling Data; Is Green The New Gold?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Say “Nein” To Sharing The German Cartel Office, Germany’s antitrust regulator, says Google’s data processing policies violate the country’s digital competition law. Germany’s antitrust regulations go further than the EU’s Digital Markets Act to prohibit data from being shared internally by large companies […]
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The Power Of Performance; Podcasts Must Cast A Wider Net
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Take It To The Max Google’s Performance Max is a black box that uses automation to serve ads across the Google portfolio, and there’s no arguing that it’s a powerful tool. But PMax also invites tinfoil hat theories about how Google might be serving […]
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In Consumer Tech, Privacy Is A Distant Concern; Netflix Guns For Net-New Subs
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. In Vegas, The American Way Ad tech can no longer avoid privacy scrutiny, from platform changes to privacy regulations coming into effect across the US. But many of the consumer tech startups at CES last week seemed blissfully unaware of such concerns, writes Tatum […]
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Revving The Data Engine; Is The Creator Economy Just Hype?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Mobility Ability The retail media boom has spawned a subcategory of first-party data owners in the travel and hospitality vertical, and they’ve got their own terminology. When Uber formalized its new advertising group last October, for example, GM Mark Grether referred to […]