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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tough Math MediaMath came to the end of its decade-long venture capital tether last year when it sold a stake to PE firm Searchlight Capital, wiping out the equity of its founders, early investors and employees. It’s a bitter outcome, reports Insider in […]

In its Q4 earnings report Tuesday, PubMatic highlighted how SSP consolidation is an opportunity for the company to pursue its goal of capturing a fifth of the SSP market.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Let’s Get Real Last year, BeReal was flying high on organic growth. Apple named it “App of the Year,” a coveted title, because the prize is sweet, sweet App Store homepage visibility.  But can BeReal keep the magic alive long enough to, uhhh […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trade Desk Trade-Offs The investment bank Needham has both the bullish and bearish takes on The Trade Desk after the DSP reported earnings this month. And there is a compelling case in both directions.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Ad-Supported Bird Gets The Worm Free-to-play reigns supreme in the mobile game market. Angry Birds, a mobile gaming OG that found early success using paid downloads, is now putting all its eggs into the ad-supported basket, Ars Technica reports. Rovio had already […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Artificial Ads Advertisers can use AI to generate entire TV commercials. Wait, what? Spectrum Reach launched an AI tool on Wednesday that clients can use to input basic company information (name and location), select the desired tone for the commercial and choose one […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Green Means Go Privacy and sustainability are critical topics for the future of humanity, and both are top priorities for many high earners in the US and the UK. So, of course, they’re used for cynical marketing purposes and anti-competition skullduggery. With an […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. 230 Unhurty? The US Supreme Court held oral arguments on Tuesday in the case of Gonzalez v. Google, which challenges the Section 230 legal protections for companies that host user-generated content. In the suit is the family of a victim of the 2015 […]

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 […]

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 […]