By Todd Cohen, Vice President of National Video/CTV Strategy at Undertone This article is sponsored by Undertone. The first TV commercial aired 80 years ago. The 10-second ad cost only $9 and looked every bit the price. It included shaky camera work and five sparse words: “America runs on Bulova time.” Advertising has changed significantly […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Game On AppLovin is a gaming content fortress (in the parlance of Eric Seufert). It published nine of the top 200 highest-grossing US mobile games last quarter and topped global downloads. The logical next step is to dominate a new category – and AppLovin […]
Advertising has finally made it. Out of the Amazon “Other” category, that is. And it was about time, considering Amazon’s ad business earned $31.2 billion in 2021, the company reported during its quarterly earnings call on Thursday.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. LOL Remember Comscore Rankings? Digital publishing is in a period of self-reflection. Instead of bragging about mass reach, the new norm will be looking at rational numbers to evaluate reach and readership, writes Brian Morrissey, former president and editor-in-chief of Digiday who now writes […]
The programmatic industry just took the toughest body blow it’s felt since the GDPR became law in 2018. The Belgian Data Protection Authority (DPA) announced on Wednesday that IAB Europe’s Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF), the industry solution for conveying consent data in the programmatic auction, is illegal in its current form. The DPA also fined IAB Europe $280,000 and ordered the trade organization to appoint a data protection officer (which could end up costing more than the fine).
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Roku And Nielsen, Rating In A Tree … … M-E-A-S-U-R-I-N-G. Jokes aside, Roku has launched Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings on OneView, the rebranded dataxu DSP it acquired in 2019. With the partnership, Roku can promise that advertisers licensing the data only pay for […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Spot Of Bother Spotify weathered a weeklong storm as Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and others ditched the service in protest of The Joe Rogan Experience, Spotify’s crown jewel podcast … and a popular voice against COVID vaccinations. But, fact is, Spotify will continue […]
Ever since the blog post by Vinay Goel, product director for the Privacy Sandbox, announcing Google’s Topics API proposal went live last week, “my channels have felt like an industrywide echo chamber filled with Google bashing,” writes Ruben Schreurs, group chief product officer at Ebiquity. But Schreurs has something to say: he’s not hopping aboard the “Topics API sucks” bandwagon.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Eye Of The Iger Former Disney head honcho Bob Iger is a “pessimist” on a Big Tech breakup or European-style regulation in the US. Iger spoke with Kara Swisher of The New York Times just three weeks after retiring at the end of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Flix It Public investor Bill Ackman scooped 3.1 million Netflix shares, a 0.68% stake in the company. The bulk buy by Pershing Square, Ackman’s fund, was inspired by Netflix’s recent stock plunge, reports The Wall Street Journal. Netflix missed […]
