Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trust But Verify An Instagram fraud scheme used free-to-set-up music creator personas on Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer and a spattering of sponsored posts and press releases to convince Instagram to dish out blue-check verifications to hundreds of undeserving or outright fraudulent accounts since […]
Mobile measurement provider Branch is expanding its offering with the acquisition of a first-party data platform. On Wednesday, Branch bought AdLibertas, a data platform that helps developers gather and analyze their first-party data in one place.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. VC You On The Other Side The food delivery app Gopuff is looking for a $300 million “cash cushion,” The Wall Street Journal reports, to help bridge tough economic times and diminishing returns in the superfast food delivery startup category. SoftBank, a gigantic […]
Although Molson Coors has hired a bunch of people who can manage programmatic – they sit on what the company calls its precision and digital marketing team – there’s a lot more to in-housing than media execution and getting hands on keyboards.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. AMPed Up And AMPed Out Last year, Google changed its search algorithm to take its thumb off the scale for AMP pages. Accelerated Mobile Pages are a plague on web publishers. Although they promise somewhat better site-loading times, historically, all they really do […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. EA Or Nay? EA Games is looking for a buyer, according to game news journal Puck. And the buyer will probably be a company with a streaming service. After a (debunked) rumor saying Amazon intends to buy EA, its stock surged 15% in […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Meme Machine Considering all the fuss over Facebook’s content moderation (as in, the lack thereof), it makes sense why Meta pushes out a quarterly “integrity update.” These updates include Meta’s Community Standards Enforcement Report and Widely Viewed Content Report, which are meant to serve […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Twitter Gets Bitter Just when Twitter thought Elon Musk was done scaring ad dollars away from the platform, a whistleblower jumped in with security breach accusations. As if advertisers aren’t already giving Twitter a wide enough berth. The whistleblower is Peiter Zatko, Twitter’s own […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Leaked Sneak Peek The TV industry waits with bated breath for Netflix’s and Disney’s ad-supported tiers to face off in 2023. In the meantime, Disney’s plans got leaked to Insider. Disney is pushing hard to promote its streaming inventory to advertisers before ads […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Brains, Brawn And Amazon Amazon’s next biggest competitor is … CVS? Amazon is placing bids on home health services provider Signify Health just one month after it bought One Medical Clinics for $4 billion, which CVS also had its eye on. Apparently, the more […]
