Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Section Off Late last week, two House Democrats introduced a bill that would require social media platforms to share and implement content moderation policies and would revise Section 230 by allowing the Federal Trade Commission to bring enforcement actions against tech companies that fail […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Upfronts Back In Front Streaming dollars are becoming a key part of upfront negotiations as the market bounces back after a tough 2020. Last year, uncertainty reigned. Sports were on pause and marketers wanted flexibility. But this year, the market is on the rebound […]
After a tough year for the out-of-home industry, the world is starting to open up – and so are advertiser budgets. Digital out-of-home (DOOH) alone is projected to grow 20% next year, according to MAGNA. There are an estimated 1.25 million digital screens in the US across billboards, street furniture, service kiosks, screens in bars, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Playing It Safe Who needs the razzle dazzle? There’s nothing sexier than safety and incremental reach, and Twitter touted both during its NewFronts presentation on Wednesday. “The TV-like quality of the content is clear,” said JP Maheu, Twitter’s VP of US client services. To […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Roku has a message for TV buyers: traditional linear’s decline continues, with a 39% loss in ratings and a median age creeping over 60. Sure, prices for traditional TV advertising haven’t dipped. But it’s fair to argue that old school programmers are surfing […]
Pinterest and Shopify have globally expanded a social commerce partnership that launched last year. The partnership began in the United States and Canada with the Pinterest Shopify app, which allows businesses to quickly upload their product catalogs to Pinterest and convert them into shoppable Product Pins. The app is now available in 27 other countries, […]
Ad verification company DoubleVerify went public on Wednesday, a month after it filed an S-1, and a week after it set the terms for the IPO, which had it valued at $4.2 billion. However, the company’s stock opened at $35 a share – nearly 30% above its IPO price – valuing the company at more […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Not So Safe Eighty percent of the more than 3.3 billion pieces of content removed from social media platforms – including Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest and Snapchat – is either spam, adult or explicit content, or hate speech, according to a new report from the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. FLoC Fears There’s no love lost for FLoC. In a blog post on Sunday entitled “Proposal: Treat FLoC As A Security Concern,” a WordPress developer called Carike suggested that users of the open source content management software block FLoC by default. If that happens, […]
Google is adding a new tool to its suite of advertiser controls that aims to make it easier for ad buyers to dynamically block sites and domains that don’t meet their brand safety standards. These dynamic exclusion lists, announced on Thursday, will be available to all Google Ads users “within the coming weeks,” which is […]
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.
