Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Labels Amazon is dropping a large portion of its private-label products: 27 of its 30 clothing lines will soon be gone, The Wall Street Journal reports. On the one hand, who cares? It’s not like anybody notices the Amazon private labels. “Oh […]
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The “Winner Take None” category of VC investments. Plus: Ad revenue is a shrinking slice of income for news publishers.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pubs Crawl Publishers are more selective about ad tech vendors nowadays after suffering through incidents involving sequential liability, Digiday reports. Publishers are more discerning about ad tech but don’t expect much to change following the MediaMath bankruptcy, like the Sizmek bankruptcy before that […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Slow Slide WPP reported lackluster Q2 results during its earnings call on Friday. The agency holding company saw a “shortfall” in the US, accounting for about 37% of WPP’s biz, which “took us a little bit by surprise,” CEO Mark Read told […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Visionary, Vision Is Scary CMO tenures are shrinking. Confidence in CMO decision-making is down. Yet the demands on the CMO are expanding and growing more difficult. “To add insult to injury, we’ve seen an overall lack of … competence, perhaps?” writes Chris Gadek, […]
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Premium YouTube TV inventory, including tentpole live sports, is finding its way down to general DV360 CTV auction campaigns, and is clearing at major CPM discounts compared to the direct deal rates.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Europe, You’re Down Meta may ask for specific consent to use data for advertising purposes in the EU, The Wall Street Journal reports. After GDPR became law, Facebook began requiring European users to allow the platform to use data for ad purposes by […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. How Amazon Ads Keeps Winning A recently ballyhooed eMarketer stat estimates current retail media advertising at more than $45 billion and on its way to $100 billion by the end of 2026. That may be true, but it misses some crucial context. Of the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. From The Ashes? When MediaMath’s defunct assets go up for auction in Delaware bankruptcy court next week, founder and one-time CEO Joe Zawadzki may be in the mix. Zawadzki wants to buy and revive the demand-side platform he founded in 2007 … and […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Snappy Comeback In 2021, when Apple announced ATT, Snapchat Co-Founder and CEO Evan Spiegel said he was “happy to see [Apple] making the right decision for their customers.” Fast-forward a couple of years, and Spiegel is less glowing about ATT, which severely […]
Amazon Web Services took another step in its development as a key ad tech integration hub on Wednesday, with the general launch of a product called Entity Resolution.
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Follow Your Intuition, I Guess Intuit, which owns Mailchimp and accounting software like TurboTax and QuickBooks, is launching an ad network called SMB MediaLabs, Adweek reports. As the name implies, Intuit’s media business is a “small business-focused media network.” But it’s focused on […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Overconsumed The 80/20 rule stating that relatively few people or causes create the vast majority of results isn’t new. But there’s a CPG craze underway to capture narrow slices of outsized customers. For instance, a growing and vocal subset of Americans proudly own […]
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Third-party data companies have a bad rap lately, especially in Europe. But to be a successful programmatic player requires serious adaption skills, said incoming Captify CEO Mike Welch.
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trading Up “Investors had gotten away from an industry they used to love, but the fundamentals are still there when you consider what percent of global ad spend is bought programmatically today versus what will be programmatic five or 10 years from now.” […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Unboxed The Chrome Privacy Sandbox is sorta-kinda-finally ramping up to testable scale. And Google is signaling more clearly that the training wheels are almost ready to come off. Chrome 115 went live for Android on Wednesday and will be available to all users […]
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When an ad tech company goes belly up – and its destiny is being decided by indifferent creditors – it becomes difficult for unfamiliar bankers to capture (or preserve) the value.
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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 […]
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 […]
