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Hollywood Forgot About Movie (Marketing) Magic; Have You Tried … Hiding From Search?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Lost The Plot The “Barbie” movie doesn’t premiere until next week, but is practically guaranteed to be a major hit, considering the deluge of prerelease energy and coverage. The marketing success (and excess) of “Barbie” is also a reminder of how studios in […]
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Can Snap Rev-Share Its Way Back To Growth; Unraveling Twitter
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Sharing Is Caring Snapchat is a mobile-first social net, though it’s still not native to the world of influencer marketing. (It took off because the posts disappeared.) Attracting legit social creators and influencers is critical to the health of the social net. But […]
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MediaMath Employees File A Class-Action Suit; Can An Indie App Pull Off Threads-Like Growth?
Bank-Erupted The private equity firm and empty LLCs schlepping MediaMath through its bankruptcy process face a new class-action suit brought by former employees over alleged labor violations. Justin Adler-Swanberg, until recently MediaMath’s director of product strategy in charge of marketplace quality and compliance, is the named plaintiff. The filing says roughly 200 MediaMath employees who […]
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Can Meta Thread The Needle Twitter Couldn’t?; The Ad Industry Learns To Cope
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Caught Thread-Handed Tech companies rarely credit competitors when they copycat a feature or product. When Mark Zuckerberg published the first Instagram Stories post in 2016, he avoided citing Snapchat, although the term “Stories” itself is a blatant ripoff. When YouTube and Instagram unashamedly […]
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GDPR And CJEU Are Ad Tech’s Four-Letter Words; Netflix Ups The Ad Ante
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Europe? More Like ‘You’re Out’ European data privacy laws mainly deal with privacy. Duh. But there is another motivating factor behind their enforcement: antitrust remedies. Europeans have different privacy standards. What might be considered a consumer protection suit in America could be a human […]
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Fixing Product Returns To Fix Ecommerce Ads; Will The FTC Nix Fake Reviews?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Point Of No Return Amazon set the bar with its liberal refund policy – it’s quick to credit consumers for missing or unsatisfactory items – and one- or two-day shipping. Matching Amazon’s standards is a brutally expensive challenge for retailers, who must […]
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The Summer Scoop On PMax; Risky Influence
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The AdExchanger team is celebrating our independence with a long weekend off! The daily news roundup will return on Wednesday, July 5. Maxxed Mike Ryan, head of ecommerce insights at Smarter Ecommerce, posted a Twitter thread about the relative performance of Performance Max, […]
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Time To Find A New Topic?; Shopify Gets Serious About Creator Affiliates
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Off Topic The ad industry isn’t sold on the Topics API, which becomes widely available in Chrome’s update July 12. The Topics API is “slightly less creepy than storing every last behavioral detail about someone centrally,” Luke Regan, UK managing partner at performance […]
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It’s An Influencer Downturn, But Not For Influencers; Burnt Out On Testing
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Chasing Influencers The creator economy spending frenzy that began in 2020 has fizzled. Investor funds ran dry, which means most of the startups and businesses built on short-term platform creator funds and VC rounds are unlikely to find a happy exit. “It was the […]
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Netflix Is Here To Make A Loonie, Eh?; On The Hypocrisy Of Modern Marketers
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Skipping The Basics Canada is Netflix’s testing ground for tinkering. Netflix has not only been diligent about cracking down on Canadian password sharers; it rather quietly removed its Basic plan (which allows viewing on one screen at a time) in Canada this week, […]