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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Email Spreads Its Feathers Ultra-trendy CTV networks are turning to an old-school method for retaining users: email marketing. NBCU’s Peacock is using good-old-fashioned email blasts to reduce churn and increase viewership, Marketing Brew reports. Free and paid subscribers receive three to five emails […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pulling The Strings  Disney-owned TV channels went dark on Charter Spectrum last week when the two companies failed to reach an agreement on a new carriage pact, Variety reports. The blackout affected over 25 networks, including ESPN. It was particularly bad timing, too: […]

AdExchanger is taking the day off for Labor Day! The daily news round-up will return September 5. Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Perverse Incentives In March, the IAB Tech Lab issued updated video ad inventory classifications and urged the ad industry to follow them. But so far, only […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Two Kinds Of ECGs The TV industry is riled up over Nielsen’s plans to incorporate Amazon’s streaming data in time for the next season of Thursday Night Football. On Wednesday, the ratings giant responded to the letter the Video Advertising Bureau (VAB) sent […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Begun, The Clone War Has The robots are taking over, and publishers are fighting back. A growing list of media outlets are attempting to stop AI bots from copying their content, CNN reports. Last week, The New York Times, Reuters and CNN led […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Add To CART Instacart filed for its initial public offering (IPO) on Friday. Shares should start trading next month (under the stock ticker CART, of course). Call it a thawing of the tech IPO market, which has been frozen for a year and […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tracking Shot The bad news keeps coming for YouTube. The platform has been under intense scrutiny from research firm Adalytics. Its latest report, which accuses YouTube of serving targeted ads on kid-focused content, may have also uncovered evidence that YouTube has been violating […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Floor Plan The Trade Desk will start undercutting SSP price floors in its bids starting next month, Insider reports. Publishers often set minimum asking prices for their ad inventory. But their SSPs then typically tack on their own costs on top of these […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tick Tock TikTok Shop isn’t doing so hot in the US. On average, the shopping service is making between $3 million and $4 million per day from US consumers compared with $50 million and $60 million in Southeast Asia, one of its most […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hammer Time Infillion is emerging as the top bidder in the bankruptcy auction for MediaMath’s assets, which include its demand-side and data management platforms, Insider reports. Sources say Infillion is making a bid of around $22 million. That’s a steal for a company […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Results Are In YouTube told clients earlier this month about plans to start billing some of its video inventory based on its own co-viewing numbers starting in January. Now the buy-side backlash is rolling in, Ad Age reports. This plan “contradicts the […]

Verizon wants a distribution partnership with Disney for ESPN. Plus: Why Tumblr has been copying X (the artist formerly known as Twitter).

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Leave Those Kids Alone Adalytics is taking a second swing at Google. On Thursday, it released its second report about YouTube this summer, this one alleging that the tech giant is targeting ads to content made for kids. Adalytics claims that the installation […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Work Behind The Patchwork Big Tech has long railed against the US adopting a patchwork of state privacy laws instead of a single national standard. But, oh the irony, tech companies lobbying at the state level is actually helping create that dreaded patchwork, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Cost Of Ad-Free(dom) Streaming is getting a lot more expensive. The average cost for major ad-free streaming services has risen nearly 25% over the past year, The Wall Street Journal reports. Case in point: Disney is hiking prices for its ad-free services […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Google Gripe Google is refunding agencies for “billing discrepancies,” aka ads that ran in places where they weren’t supposed to, Ad Age reports. The refunds (which Google refers to as credits) closely follow the viral Adalytics report alleging that YouTube placed TrueView ad […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Amazon Prime(s) Its SSP Play Based on its job listings, Amazon is getting ready to launch a supply-side platform. The company has 11 open job listings on a “PubTech team” tasked with building “the new Amazon Ads Supply Side Platform,” Insider reports. The […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Labels Amazon is dropping a large portion of its private-label products: 27 of its 30 clothing lines will soon be gone, The Wall Street Journal reports. On the one hand, who cares? It’s not like anybody notices the Amazon private labels. “Oh […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Uncapped Streaming TV viewers know what it’s like to be hounded by an ad for days or weeks at a time. Shira Ovide of The Washington Post explores how to avoid this unfortunate phenomenon – although it’s not an encouraging report. People can jump […]

The “Winner Take None” category of VC investments. Plus: Ad revenue is a shrinking slice of income for news publishers.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pubs Crawl Publishers are more selective about ad tech vendors nowadays after suffering through incidents involving sequential liability, Digiday reports. Publishers are more discerning about ad tech but don’t expect much to change following the MediaMath bankruptcy, like the Sizmek bankruptcy before that […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Slow Slide WPP reported lackluster Q2 results during its earnings call on Friday.  The agency holding company saw a “shortfall” in the US, accounting for about 37% of WPP’s biz, which “took us a little bit by surprise,” CEO Mark Read told […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Visionary, Vision Is Scary CMO tenures are shrinking. Confidence in CMO decision-making is down. Yet the demands on the CMO are expanding and growing more difficult.  “To add insult to injury, we’ve seen an overall lack of … competence, perhaps?” writes Chris Gadek, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. CMax, LOL Criteo reported earnings on Wednesday. It wasn’t a blockbuster – gross revenue ticked down from $495 million in Q2 2022 to $469 million this year – but Criteo clawed back to about even in terms of profitability after dipping into the […]

Premium YouTube TV inventory, including tentpole live sports, is finding its way down to general DV360 CTV auction campaigns, and is clearing at major CPM discounts compared to the direct deal rates.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Europe, You’re Down Meta may ask for specific consent to use data for advertising purposes in the EU, The Wall Street Journal reports.  After GDPR became law, Facebook began requiring European users to allow the platform to use data for ad purposes by […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. How Amazon Ads Keeps Winning A recently ballyhooed eMarketer stat estimates current retail media advertising at more than $45 billion and on its way to $100 billion by the end of 2026. That may be true, but it misses some crucial context. Of the […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. From The Ashes? When MediaMath’s defunct assets go up for auction in Delaware bankruptcy court next week, founder and one-time CEO Joe Zawadzki may be in the mix. Zawadzki wants to buy and revive the demand-side platform he founded in 2007 … and […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Primed For Peacock Comcast is zeroing in on NBCUniversal’s Peacock to buoy revenues while cable declines. Broadband subscriptions are still evaporating – Comcast lost 19,000 US customers last quarter – but revenue is up thanks to Peacock subscriptions and ad revenue to offset […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Snappy Comeback In 2021, when Apple announced ATT, Snapchat Co-Founder and CEO Evan Spiegel said he was “happy to see [Apple] making the right decision for their customers.” Fast-forward a couple of years, and Spiegel is less glowing about ATT, which severely […]