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 […]
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 […]
In the data-centric online ecosystem, it’s typical for app users to feel like they’re a product being sold to advertisers. Klover is betting it can flip that dynamic by offering to compensate people for their data when they use the Klover app.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Let’s See, LG Smart TV manufacturer LG is on board with the outcomes-based buying trend, but with a twist – advertisers that don’t hit performance goals don’t have to pay. On Wednesday, LG Ads Solutions launched Guaranteed Outcomes, which promises brands they’ll only pay […]
Advertising can be cheap. But acquiring new users is almost always expensive. Which is why the Instacart ads team is focused on creating new advertising opportunities to reach the customers it already has. On Wednesday, the company introduced its first display ad units, as well as branded pages that serve as the hub for CPG […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. You Got Peltzed Unilever will cut jobs and reorganize to fend off activist investor Trian Fund Management, led by Nelson Peltz, The Wall Street Journal reports. Peltz unseated a Procter & Gamble board member in a shocking shareholder vote in 2017 – winning […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Microsoft Is Not Playing Around Microsoft announced a $69 billion deal for Activision Blizzard, the game developer that owns Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and King, the mobile studio behind Candy Crush, among many other game franchises, The New York Times reports. […]
The retail media craze kicked into hyperdrive in the past year. Because of the pandemic, the number of people ordering groceries online for the first time skyrocketed, but the trend was already underway. The rush of retailers into the programmatic platform business meant they tended to follow the playbook laid out by the by the […]
Instacart is at the forefront of a movement among data-driven companies over the past two years to launch ancillary ad platform businesses, including direct competitors like GoPuff, partner competitors like Kroger and unrelated product or payment companies. The sailing hasn’t always been smooth, but the company is committed to building a major ad tech business.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hard Of Hearing Podcasters are rushing to add programmatic to their bag of monetization tricks. But they’re confronting familiar issues for publishers when software decides what ads to run and where, The Verge reports. An ad for HBO’s “The Sex Lives of College […]
If you’re trying to read more than 1,000 pages of legal documents about the US v. Google ad tech antitrust case on Election Day, you’ve come to the right place.
While WaPo recently lost 250,000 subscribers due to concerns over its journalistic independence, NYT added 260,000 subscriptions in Q3 thanks largely to the popularity of its non-news offerings.
Stop thinking about brand safety verification as “insurance” – a way to avoid undesirable content – and start thinking about it as an opportunity to build positive brand associations, says Kenvue’s Mark Proulx.
Google hit some impressive revenue benchmarks in Q3. But investors seemed to only have eyes for AI.
Ad revenue grew 56% YOY even without some of Reddit’s shiny new ad products, including generative AI creative tools and in-comment ads, being fully integrated into its platform.
Freestar adopted a new approach to curation developed by Audigent that gives buyers a priority lane to publisher inventory with higher viewability and attention scores than most open-auction inventory.
