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Why Google Just Can’t Quit Ad Tech; Paneling For Gold
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ad Tech? What Ad Tech? One refrain from Google when it defends its third-party ad tech business is that ad tech is a minuscule contributor to Google’s revenue. Which begs the question: Why not get rid of it? But Google won’t quit ad […]
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Can Advertisers Rethink Brand Safety Already; Google Cleans Up ADH
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Safe Bet Which is “unsafe,” really: the tech or the media? Advertisers think of “brand safety” as an adjacency issue. Is there a picture of a car crash? Maybe not Toyota. Other brands avoid keywords like “gun control” and “abortion.” But there’s […]
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Amazon And Nielsen’s Misratings; Why Ad Tech Likes Vague Laws
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Playing The Game Amazon took its first real step into linear TV broadcast territory in September when it streamed its first live NFL game only carried on Amazon Prime, not a TV network. And, of course, Amazon is already feuding with Nielsen. There’s […]
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The Twitter Thing Is Happening?!; What Lysol Did After Cleaning Up
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. All Of A Twitter Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition must be near, because Musk is sounding like the real-world owner of Twitter and not a troll trying to harm the business. “There has been much speculation about why I bought Twitter and what I […]
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Going Mall-In On Social Commerce; The ROI on DEI
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Against Mall Odds TikTok is many things: a payday for influencers, a news service, an entertainment provider, a music video player, a search engine and more. “Though, what executives really want TikTok to be known as is a digital shopping mall,” MarketWatch reports. TikTok […]
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Web 3? More Like Web 30%; Balancing “Commercial” And “Surveillance”
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Maybe Web 4 Apple has asserted its dominion over Web 3 developers. In its latest app review guidance, which went live this week, Apple introduced language to clarify that apps “may not use their own mechanisms to unlock content or functionality, such as […]
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The App Store Homepage, Brought To You By Ads; NBCU Gets Defensive
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The New Apple October 25 quietly marks a big step for Apple’s ambition to become one of the world’s largest advertising companies. Starting today, developers can promote themselves directly in the “Today” section of the App Store, MacRumors reports. The “Today” section is a […]
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Could Celebs Snap Up Social Platforms?; Why Brands Are Trying TV Production
AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Social Butterflies Are we entering an era of celebrity-owned social media? That’s the question posed by The Atlantic in light of Kanye West’s recent purchase of Truth Social, a conservative social platform, and Elon Musk’s will-they-won’t-they Twitter drama. Immediate fears are overblown. Truth Social’s user base […]
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Let’s Just Watch Something Already; Have We Reached Peak Newsletter?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Going Nowhere FAST Streaming TV services want people to pick a show already. Too often, viewers peruse a streaming app for a bit and never actually settle on a show, then try another app. It’s an underappreciated linear advantage that something is always […]
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How The Netflix Ad Biz Changes Things; Web 3 Attribution, Here We Go
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Netflix Gets Its Head In The Game Netflix’s ad business will reshape its priorities. For example, last year, Netflix started acquiring game studios and an explicit part of its pitch was that its ad-free model meant creators could focus on the gaming content, rather […]