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OPINION: The Sell Sider
The “Cookie Pop-Up” Is Not The Real Issue Of GDPR
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. Progress is not a straight line or a smooth path, as many in history have reminded us. It seems to be the case for data […]
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Persuading Voters Online Ain’t Easy; Facebook Is Now Meta
Hitting For The Cycle 2021 is an off-year, in terms of the four-year election cycle. But political advertising is scorching – and politicians have a few specific demands for digital. For one, the idea of “forced video” exposure is critical, said Megan Clasen, a partner at the political ads shop Gambit Strategies, in a Q&A […]
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Spotify’s Ad Business Is On Fire; Apple’s App Privacy Report Is Coming
Spot Me Some Change Spotify reported quarterly revenues of $2.9 billion, with about $375 million of that coming from its free, ad-supported tier. That’s a nice 75% year-over-year jump for Spotify’s advertising business. The company expects to clear $1 billion in ad revenue at the close of 2021, which will mark the first time it’s […]
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Antitrust Suits Expose Awkward Emails; Braze Joins The Pre-IPO Gang
Pry-vacy Cases The myriad antitrust cases filed against Silicon Valley giants rarely result in legal action. Mostly what you see are record-breaking fines – for the regulators, that is. But these fines hardly break the bank for Big Tech. What’s $300 million here and $1 billion there? It’s monopoly money, after all. More often the darts […]
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Disney Intros Its Own Clean Room; VideoAmp Cleans Up With $275M Round
Squeaky Clean The Disney Advertising Sales group just launched its own data clean room, with assists from the first-party data service providers Snowflake, Habu and InfoSum. It’s no coincidence that earlier this week Snowflake unveiled its Media Data Cloud, a platform to combine first-party data sets for advertising and analytics with Disney and Habu as […]
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Google’s Slow March To Privacy Protection; PayPal Eyes Pinterest
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 […]
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Is Addressable Linear A Real Thing Now?; Google’s New Pixel Bundle
Wait, Wait … Addressable Linear? AMC Networks announced a partnership with The Trade Desk and Magnite to run addressable ads on linear TV. “This is a huge development, for us and for the entire industry, unlocking the value of linear inventory,” said Evan Adlman, SVP of advanced advertising and digital partnerships at AMC Networks. AMC […]
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StitcherAds Goes To Kargo; Changes Are Coming To Google Search
A Stitcher In Time Kargo Global has acquired the online retail advertising company StitcherAds for $64 million. StitcherAds, an Irish startup, specializes in selling on social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok, whereas Kargo’s main business is placing ads on the mobile web or within a network of app publishers. “We realized we were […]
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Would-Be Ad Earners Are Big Spenders; The Rise Of Shopping Bots
Spend Money To Make Money The proliferation of companies launching ancillary advertising businesses is a boon to total ad spend. Buy-now-pay-later players Affirm, Klarna, Afterpay and PayPal spent a combined $52.45 million on TV, print and digital media from January to September this year, Business Insider reports. That’s up 130% from last year. BNPL companies […]
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Can Amazon Help Itself?; The Mobile Ad Tech M&A Frenzy
Do Me A Favor Amazon told Congress in 2019 that it doesn’t favor Amazon-owned brands in search results. But that isn’t credible to sellers, who time and again see Amazon rivals shoot into the top three search results immediately. A former Amazon employee told The Markup that Amazon reserved a top search spot for new […]
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