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  • Google’s Temporary Opt-Out; Finding Your Fans

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Maxxed Out Google will temporarily allow opt-outs for its search partner network, GSP, which serves ads for searches on non-Google sites, Adweek reports. Google is responding to a report last week by Adalytics, an ad tech auditing outfit. Adalytics demonstrated how Google advertisers […]

  • Blue-Chip Or Green-Chip Agency Accounts; Google’s Epic Mistake

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Win Is A Win? Blue-chip accounts are coveted on Madison Ave, but it’s impossible to tell which clients are really the key wins for the agencies involved.  Winning the McDonald’s or Coca-Cola account comes with cachet and solid earned media, but the […]

  • Comic: The New Bundle

    When AAA Is The New Three-Letter Acronym; A Bundle Of Exhaustion

    Under The Hood When Gary Numan sang, “Here in my car, I feel safest of all,” he didn’t know about the rapacious data collection practices of modern-day automakers. Ars Technica reports that, late last week, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) sent letters to 14 car companies, including Ford, GM, Honda and Hyundai, asking pointed questions about […]

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    Filling The Black Friday Sales Funnel; Traffic-Starved News Pubs Run To Reddit

    Lowering efficiency in exchange for volume can build up a funnel of potential customers who are retargeted with deals on Black Friday.

  • TikTok’s Pay-To-Play Problem Is That It Isn’t; Brands Relearn Buy One, Get One

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Organic Farming TikTok has had the same two business priorities for years. One, to develop an ecommerce marketplace on the app and, two, to create a conversion-based ad platform akin to Google, Amazon or Meta. TikTok has struggled mightily on both fronts. Its […]

  • Will 2024 Be The Year Of Addressable TV?; The New Cable Bundle Is Groceries

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Addressable Auspices Traditional TV advertisers are hesitant to try addressable products because they’re expensive and hard to scale. But programmatic TV ad buying is making addressable more accessible, said Sara Wallace, FreeWheel’s senior director of product management, speaking at an event on Wednesday […]

  • Comic: Schrems III

    Started Slow But Getting FAST; None Of Your Business Is Back To Business

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Think FAST ​​Free ad-supported TV (FAST) is more than just traditional TV streamed over the internet. From a marketing perspective, FAST is a complement to both TV and streaming, says Scott Reich, SVP of programming at Paramount-owned Pluto TV, speaking at Paramount Advertising’s […]

  • A New Industry Trade Org Is Born; Google Versus Publishers

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Addressing Addressable Say hello to yet another trade org that wants to address the current woes of TV advertising: Go Addressable. The industry initiative that TV and broadband distributors pushed is now a nonprofit organization, NextTV reports. Paramount is the first programmer to join […]

  • The Next RMN Is Now Boarding; How Private Is Private?

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. United We Target United Airlines may join the retail media network runway, reports The Wall Street Journal.  The appeal is obvious. Companies with a sliver of attention during a taxi ride, or even an elevator ride, boast of their “captive audiences” – and that’s nothing […]

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    Google Spills More Secrets; The Unblockables

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Share Tactics Another secret Google revenue-sharing deal was revealed during antitrust testimony. Google head of global partnerships Don Harrison disclosed during the Epic Games vs. Google trial that the standard 15% fee doesn’t apply to Spotify. Spotify only pays Google 4% of subscription […]

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Google Ads Will Now Use A Trusted Execution Environment By Default

Confidential matching uses a TEE built on Google Cloud infrastructure to create an isolated computing environment for ad targeting and measurement. It will now be the default setting for all uses of advertiser first-party data in Customer Match.

In 2019, Google moved to a first-price auction and also ceded its last look advantage in AdX, in part because it had to. Most exchanges had already moved to first price.

Unraveling The Mystery Of PubMatic’s $5 Million Loss From A “First-Price Auction Switch”

PubMatic’s $5 million loss from DV360’s bidding algorithm fix earlier this year suggests second-price auctions aren’t completely a thing of the past.

A comic version of former News Corp executive Stephanie Layser in the courtroom for the DOJ's ad tech-focused trial against Google in Virginia.

The DOJ vs. Google, Day Two: Tales From The Underbelly Of Ad Tech

Day Two of the Google antitrust trial in Alexandria, Virginia on Tuesday was just as intensely focused on the intricacies of ad tech as on Day One.

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A comic depicting Judge Leonie Brinkema's view of the her courtroom where the DOJ vs. Google ad tech antitrust trial is about to begin. (Comic: Court Is In Session)

Your Day One Recap: DOJ vs. Google Goes Deep Into The Ad Tech Weeds

It’s not often one gets to hear sworn witnesses in federal court explain the intricacies of header bidding under oath. But that’s what happened during the first day of the Google ad tech-focused antitrust case in Virginia on Monday.

Comic: What Else? (Google, Jedi Blue, Project Bernanke)

Project Cheat Sheet: A Rundown On All Of Google’s Secret Internal Projects, As Revealed By The DOJ

What do Hercule Poirot, Ben Bernanke, Star Wars and C.S. Lewis have in common? If you’re an ad tech nerd, you’ll know the answer immediately.

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The Wonderful Brand Discusses Testing OOH And Online Snack Competition

Wonderful hadn’t done an out-of-home (OOH) marketing push in more than 15 years. That is, until a week ago, when it began a campaign across six major markets to promote its new no-shell pistachio packs.