Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Free Reign Disney may ditch Comcast-owned FreeWheel as its video ad tech provider in favor of Google, reports Mike Shields of Business Insider. If Disney were to pick Google, it’d be a blow to Comcast and a huge step for Google in its pursuit […]
“The Complete Guide to CDPs” is presented by mParticle. “The Complete Guide To CDPs” is part 1 in a multipart series on the rise of the CDP and is an independent editorial report. The customer data platform (CDP) is the new “it” acronym, an emerging technology commanding a recent deluge of analyst and investor interest […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Survey Says… As more witnesses take the stand in the Department of Justice’s challenge to the $85 billion merger of AT&T and Time Warner, the telco’s legal strategy is coming into focus. The DOJ case rests in part of a pair of surveys, one […]
Despite broad concerns about the viability of online media and advertising, M&A in the sector is heating up thanks to the growth of ecommerce and commerce-based media solutions, like Apple’s purchase of digital subscription service Next Issue Media for an undisclosed amount. The total number of deals in media, marketing and technology dropped by 7% […]
Google header-bidding solution Exchange Bidding has exited beta and is generally available to all publishers who use Doubleclick for Publishers (DFP), the company said Wednesday. Google also said it is alpha testing an expansion of Exchange Bidding to new ad formats like video and buying methods like programmatic. It expects to release a beta version […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pub Crawl CBSi, ESPN, Meredith, Fox News and NBCUniversal committed $2.2 million to support TrustX, a nonprofit subsidiary of the publisher trade group Digital Content Next. Read the release. The TrustX platform is a collective private marketplace, with exchange technology licensed from Iponweb and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Proof Of Permission Facebook is launching tools to police marketers’ use of CRM data on its platform. One tool requires marketers to certify all email addresses used for targeting on Facebook were rightfully obtained, and the other will prevent marketers from sharing Custom Audiences […]
YouTube on Monday released a CPM-based pricing model for its skippable video format called TrueView for reach. Read the blog post. This pricing model optimizes not for viewability but for on-target reach – similar to YouTube’s six-second bumper ad format. Previously, TrueView ads were transacted on cost per view, with YouTube charging advertisers once consumers […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The ‘At Any Cost’ Cost Facebook is reeling from internal backlash after a 2016 internal post written by VP Andrew “Boz” Bosworth was published Friday by BuzzFeed. The post preaches the platform’s mission to “grow at any cost” and cites some of the ugly […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Snap Crackle Cut Snap on Thursday cut 100 employees, with this downsizing focused on the advertising team. The layoffs are the final step in a restructuring that began late last year, Bloomberg reports. Snap let go 120 engineers earlier this month and about two […]
LinkedIn made Video for Sponsored Content, video ads which appear as sponsored posts in the feed, generally available on Thursday. It also rolled out video-compatible Company Pages for brands and publishers. Since LinkedIn’s beta launch of sponsored video last October, more than 700 advertisers, including KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, GE and Philips, have signed on. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Over-The-Top Growth TV ad spend will shrink in the US this year by 0.5% to $69.9 billion, according to eMarketer’s updated forecast. TV’s share of US media spend will decrease as a result, from 33.9% in 2017 to 31.6% this year. TV ad spend […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. GDPRebuttle GroupM issued a response Tuesday to a Digiday article about its publisher Data Protection Addendum issued in preparation for GDPR. The agency group denies that the new policy asks publishers to share control of their audience data so GroupM can continue targeting ads […]
One would think Time Inc., which under new parent company Meredith will lay off 1,200 as well as restructure its ad sales org, wouldn’t be in the market for new vendor implementations. Nevertheless, the publisher is testing a publisher tool called Audience Manager Reporting for Publishers, which Adobe will roll out over the next few months. The […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trade Secret The Federal Trade Commission’s consumer protection bureau announced an “open non-public investigation” into Facebook’s privacy practices following the revelation that political data firm Cambridge Analytica used illicitly obtained Facebook data to target messages to US voters. Here’s the full statement. Bloomberg claims […]
Amit Chaturvedi, EVP of revenue and operations and product management for Turner, will speak at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO conference on April 10-11 at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco. At Turner, Amit Chaturvedi’s job is to support ad sales and drive revenue. He’s the guy responsible for vetting vendor partners and building a stack to ensure the […]
With the May 25 start date for GDPR enforcement approaching fast, companies across the digital media, tech and data ecosystem are in overdrive to finalize product changes and prep their data governance and legal teams for scrutiny by the European Union. Tech takeover: Technology upgrade costs will likely remain high for a couple of years […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Ton Of Bricks Target and Kroger are considering a merger, sources tell Fast Company. The combination of the Kroger, the second-biggest grocery retailer in the US (behind Walmart), and Target’s general merchandise sales would create another power retailer as the space consolidates to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trust Or Antitrust Opening statements began on Thursday in the closely watched antitrust trial between the US Justice Department and AT&T challenging the telco’s $86 billion deal for Time Warner. Both sides’ arguments were laid out earlier this month in pre-trial briefings [more on […]
French supply-side platform Adyoulike has acquired Paris-based video ad platform Pulpix, the companies said Thursday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Pulpix had raised only about $1 million in funding since it was founded four years ago. Pulpix’s co-founder and CEO, Sabry Otmani, and the entire Pulpix team will join Adyoulike. Otmani will move […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Time To Go Meredith laid off 200 employees Wednesday and plans to eliminate 1,000 more positions over the next 10 months in an effort to maximize its acquisition of Time Inc. The layoffs will help Meredith realize $400 million to $500 million in cost […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Viewability Budge The Media Rating Council (MRC) will review its digital viewability standards, which require 50% of a display ad’s pixels be in view for one second and that a video ad play for two continuous seconds. Four years ago, big brands and agencies […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. RIP “Super Cookie” WebKit, the open-source browser infrastructure operated by Apple, has updated its code to prevent HSTS-based tracking. HSTS is a great feature that automatically redirects traffic to secure page connections if a person accidentally uses an insecure URL – and then remembers […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Once More Into The… Facebook suspended the accounts and admin rights of SCL Group and its subsidiary Cambridge Analytica, the data vendor for the 2016 political runs of Ted Cruz and, later, Donald Trump. The offense: breaking company policy by collecting and storing data […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Prime Numbers Reuters obtained audience numbers for Amazon’s Prime Video subscription service. According to the internals, by early 2017 Amazon Video had drawn more than 5 million people into the Prime loyalty program, and about 26 million people overall were watching content on the […]
Video supply-side platform Beachfront Media is expanding its partnership with White Ops, the digital verification vendor that specializes in bot detection, to include over-the-top (OTT) inventory. All inventory passing through Beachfront’s marketplace is now vetted and verified by White Ops, according to Frank Sinton, Beachfront’s founder and chief product officer. But is OTT fraud a […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Take That Rubicon Project reported Q4 and full-year 2017 earnings Wednesday. As expected, eliminating buy-side fees took a serious bite out of its revenue. For the quarter, revenues were $31.4 million, down from $72.7 million in Q4 2016, and full-year revenues fell to $155 […]
Condé Nast has appointed the company’s first chief data officer as it doubles down on data and tech across its business groups. Karthic Bala, most recently Condé’s head of data strategy, is also responsible for creating new data-driven revenue streams and expanding ad-supported products. Its acquisition of data solutions company Lighthouse Datalab in late January […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Eat Your RFPs Media RFPs are falling out of fashion as more direct channels develop between buyers and sellers. The traditional RFP process is rushed and, with a focus on audience and ad specs, doesn’t account for the nuances in publisher strategies. As media […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Still Spoofing British publisher News UK “did a test where we turned off all our programmatic supply and tried to buy our own inventory when it wasn’t available, and we found that we could,” said Ben Walmsley, commercial director at The Bridge, the company’s […]
