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Ryan Joe

Ryan Joe

Managing Editor

As managing editor at AdExchanger, Ryan Joe helps edit and oversee the staff writers’ daily coverage. He often reports on issues surrounding data management as well as the confluence of media, creativity and technology. Prior to AdExchanger, he was senior editor at Direct Marketing News. He also spent three years as an analyst at Datamonitor, where he focused on customer interaction technologies (ie: contact centers). His articles about the traditional publishing industry occasionally show up in Publishers Weekly. He is a writer, but he is not from Brooklyn.

Articles By Ryan

  • No Longer Just Incremental: Roku Enters The 2021 Upfront Pushing Scale And Measurement

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Roku has a message for TV buyers: traditional linear’s decline continues, with a 39% loss in ratings and a median age creeping over 60. Sure, prices for traditional TV advertising haven’t dipped. But it’s fair to argue that old school programmers are surfing […]

  • The Big Story Podcast

    The Big Story: SOS! It’s iOS 14.5!

    After months of anticipation, Apple will start enforcing ATT with the debut of iOS 14.5. Check out our infinite coverage here. Interestingly, this in-the-weeds ad tech story got picked up by the mainstream media, with Apple cast as the valiant steward of privacy. Because we live in a world where the only thing protecting us […]

  • OpenAP Releases Identifier So Advertisers Can Buy And Measure Across Linear And Digital

    Imagine the headaches inflicted on TV advertisers as they try to onboard and match audiences across each different programmer’s linear and digital inventory – all for one single campaign. That is precisely the problem that the OpenAP consortium was created to help solve. OpenAP has technology to unify onboarding, campaign activation and measurement across its […]

  • Microsoft Advertising Unleashes Ad Units And The Ability To Import Facebook Campaigns. What Else Is New?

    Microsoft hosted its Elevate partner event earlier this week, when the advertising industry was still recovering from Apple’s roundabout announcement confirming the start of ATT enforcement. But there is news that isn’t Apple-related. Microsoft released a bunch of ad products at its event, including new formats such as video ads that appear in search results, […]

  • Here’s What Nielsen Vet Kelly Abcarian Brings To NBCU’s Measurement Ambitions

    Kelly Abcarian spent 16 years at Nielsen, most recently heading up the measurement company’s advanced video advertising product. Now she moves to NBCU, in the newly-created role of EVP of measurement and impact, to build out the broadcaster’s in-house measuring capabilities. It’s a deceptively large purview. Abcarian will oversee a ton of measurement-related initiatives that […]

  • The Big Story Podcast

    The Big Story: The Complexity Of Commerce, The Commencement Of Apple’s ATT Enforcement

    This week on The Big Story, the team broadcasts LIVE from AdExchanger’s Innovation Labs: Commerce Day event. And here’s your main takeaway if you weren’t able to attend: the fragmentation in the world of commerce-related media is … insane. An emerging cluster of media networks from retailers  such as Walmart, Target, Kroger and numerous others […]

  • The Big Story Podcast

    The Big Story: Confusion Around Project Bernanke

    Hey kids, are you trying to read the blacked-out redactions on a PDF? Simply copy and paste the text into Microsoft Word, and then read everyone’s legal secrets. It’s the digital hack to reading invisible ink. Google learned that lesson the hard way recently when, in responding to the Texas-led antitrust suit, it accidentally revealed […]

  • As Data-Driven TV Takes Off, SpotX's New Tool Refines Audiences For Advertisers

    The advent of data-driven TV means that media owners have richer data sets to help advertisers find their audiences.  But if media companies are going to make their data available, they need better tools to prevent data leakage, whether that be from their own valuable data sets or the personally identifiable information coming from their […]

  • The Big Story Podcast

    The Big Story: Unicorns Everywhere

    Late last year, with the end of the pandemic hopefully in sight, Luma was beginning to see investor confidence return. If anything, that cautious optimism was understated, as this Spring, Luma saw the best quarter in deals that it had ever seen. This week on The Big Story, we welcome back Conor McKenna, Luma director […]

  • The Big Story Podcast

    The Big Story: Why TripleLift Went With Vista, And How It Will Crack CTV

    This week, Vista Equity Partners said it would acquire a majority stake in TripleLift, reportedly investing $1.4 billion. The deal is expected to close in Q2. $1.4 billion is a big chunk of change – and a big story. In this episode, the AdExchanger team welcomes Ari Lewine, TripleLift cofounder and chief strategy officer, to […]

  • The Big Story Podcast

    The Big Story: FLoC’s European Vacation

    Will FLoCs fly in Europe or will GDPR clip its wings? And, speaking of birds (and identifiers), NBCU’s Peacock is going programmatic – and the broadcaster also recently revealed a new identifier for advertisers to use. But first back to Google, mixed messages from The GOOG this week, when engineer Michael Kleber said at a […]

  • Fox Inventory Viewed Through Comcast Set-Top Boxes Is Now Programmatic And Addressable

    Fox said on Thursday that it’s struck a deal with Comcast-owned FreeWheel to enable programmatic sales of its set-top box inventory. That inventory can now be purchased through, guess who: The Trade Desk. However, Comcast VP and GM of addressable Larry Allen said the company does have the other “big five” DSPs on the roadmap […]

  • The Big Story Podcast

    The Big Story: Don’t Microwave Fish

    This week, The Big Story records live at AdExchanger’s digital conference: Innovation Labs. While our April 20 one-day event will focus on Ecommerce, and our May 18 event will focus on CTV, our event on March 16 was all about Identity. And the big story around identity, no pun intended, is that it’s still a […]

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    DoubleVerify Reveals Financials As Company Files S-1

    Add another ad tech IPO to the pile, folks. DoubleVerify filed its S-1 Wednesday (read it) in its bid to IPO.  According to the filing, DoubleVerify experienced strong but slowing revenue growth last year. Gross revenue in 2020 was $244 million, a 34% increase from 2019 revenue of $183 million. The company’s 2018 revenue meanwhile […]

  • The Big Story Podcast

    The Big Story: Unified!

    Online identity resolution solutions. Two years ago, they were all ambition – but today, they’re undergoing tests and people are starting to figure out how they work, where they work … and where they don’t. In other words, the ad industry is finally  discussing the practical challenges that these solutions must overcome. The biggest and most […]

  • The Big Story Podcast

    The Big Story: Google. Roku. Disney

    Big news week from three heavy hitters. On Wednesday, Google sent shockwaves through the industry with its declaration that it wouldn’t use cross-site browsing data to sell ads, and that it really disapproved of the industry’s attempts to develop email-based identifiers as a substitute for third-party cookies. Arguably, this is a development the world should […]

  • Roku Acquires Video Ad Tech From Nielsen – And Nielsen Gets Insights On Roku Users

    Two significant steps in advanced TV happened Monday – one around advancing dynamic ad insertion (DAI) on linear TV and the second around Nielsen’s attempt to overhaul the currency around which all TV ads are transacted. Roku said it will acquire Nielsen’s Advanced Video Advertising business, inheriting capabilities in automatic content recognition (ACR) and dynamic […]

  • The Big Story Podcast

    The Big Story: Consumer Protection Is Virginia Territory

    This week on The Big Story, we present the latest in privacy protection regulations – true-false style. Because, honestly, this stuff can be pretty dry unless you make a game out of it.  As you might know, Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA) will likely soon become law. But how is it different from the […]

  • The Big Story Podcast

    The Big Story: Tax Time!

    Maryland isn’t a merry land if you make most of your money off of digital advertising. This week, on The Big Story, we’ll look at the Old Line State’s new line of taxes. AdExchanger’s resident expert on all things legislative Allison Schiff drops by (Plot twist: SHE WAS ALWAYS HERE) to drop knowledge on how […]

  • Industry Preview: NBCUniversal’s Krishan Bhatia On The Future Of TV

    Industry Preview is a special, limited-run audio series, featuring interviews with key leaders in marketing, media and technology who share their predictions and key priorities for 2021. This podcast is sponsored by ENGINE Media Exchange. NBCUniversal has aggressively developed technologies designed to help advertisers reach out to audiences across all platforms even before the 2020 […]

  • The Big Story Podcast

    The Big Story: Changes In Exchanges

    This week’s episode of The Big Story is brought to you by the letters M and A.  Because if you haven’t heard, Magnite bought SpotX for $1.17 billion, and then District M and Sharethrough merged to form a giant exchange. So what’s going on? The team takes a look at both acquisitions, and digs into […]

  • The Big Story Podcast

    The Big Story: Four Platforms Walk Into A Bar. Jeff Bezos Walks Out.

    There are more platforms than Super Mario on this week’s The Big Story. First up, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has exited stage… right? Left? To pick a more workable metaphor, he’s passed the reigns to Andy Jassy, former Amazon Web Services chief. That decision should give you an indication of Amazon’s coming priorities. We’ll chat a […]

  • Wait, So NBCU Is Hosting A Developer Conference?

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Google has its I/O conference. Facebook has F8. And NBCU has … ONE21? On March 22, NBCU will host a one-hour event devoted to its One Platform initiative, which had its official debut during 2020’s pre-COVID Consumer and Electronics […]

  • Google's Q4 Ad Rev Soars As Advertisers Return

    When we last checked in with Google for its quarterly earnings in Q3, it was printing money. And in Q4, it printed some more – because advertisers are coming back. Read the release. Google’s 2020 Q4 revenues hit $56.9 billion led by YouTube and its search business. That figure is up 23% YoY from $46.1 […]

  • Industry Preview: What Do Brands Really Want?

    Industry Preview is a special, limited-run audio series, featuring interviews with key leaders in marketing, media and technology who share their predictions and key priorities for 2021. This podcast is sponsored by IBM Watson Advertising. With almost a year of the pandemic under our belt (ugh), brands have figured out a way forward. In many cases, […]

  • The Big Story Podcast

    The Big Story: What We FLoC About When We FLoC About Google

    Google announced this week that its federated learning of cohorts sandbox proposal (FLoC) is nearly as effective as cookie-based advertising. And the rest of the ad industry collectively said, “Whaaaaaat?” Needless to say, there’s a lot to unpack behind all the hype. This week on The Big Story, the team welcomes Flashtalking CEO John Nardone […]

  • Industry Preview: Colleen Aubrey On Amazon’s Huge 2020 – And What It Has Planned For 2021

    Industry Preview is a special, limited-run audio series, featuring interviews with key leaders in marketing, media and technology who share their predictions and key priorities for 2021. This podcast is sponsored by IBM Watson Advertising. When the global pandemic shut down the world, ecommerce and streaming video surged. Amazon plays prominently in both spaces. But with […]

  • The Big Story Podcast

    The Big Story: Must CTV

    The transformation of the way TV advertising is transacted will be a major theme in 2021. Everyone – both buy- and sell-sides – seems to be talking about addressability these days. Traditional broadcasters have reorganized around streaming and TV-related acquisitions have accelerated – one of the most notable being Roku’s $150 million acquisition of dataxu. […]

  • Industry Preview: LiveRamp CEO Scott Howe On The Great Identity Shakeup Of 2021

    Industry Preview is a special, limited-run audio series, featuring interviews with key leaders in marketing, media and technology who share their predictions and key priorities for 2021. This podcast is sponsored by IBM Watson Advertising. LiveRamp CEO Scott Howe has a unique view of the advertising industry’s crossroads. The company is one of the key tech […]

  • The Big Story Podcast

    The Big Story: Trump, Deplatformed

    With Facebook, Twitter, YouTube (and as of Thursday morning, Snapchat) pulling the plug on outgoing President Trump’s digital platforms – and with Google, Apple and Amazon declining to host the right wing social media app Parler – are we at a watershed in terms of the type of speech social media will allow? And should […]

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