Roku announced a new partnership with Unity to help gaming and mobile app developers add CTV to their user acquisition campaigns by giving them performance marketing attribution for streaming.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Black Friday Indeed Black Friday is almost here. And while all advertisers are always nervous this time of year, ecommerce advertisers are really tweaking. First, there’s the macro-gloom. Credit is tight, prices are inflated and retailers warn of a consumer spending downturn. On […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Zero-Sum Game Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive, the video game developer that makes Grand Theft Auto, bemoaned the lack of pricing power for gaming properties during the company’s earnings report this week, eXputer reports. Zelnick believes video games should be priced […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Amazon Wins Again Last week, ecommerce market research company Marketplace Pulse disclosed that Amazon advertisers can serve ads directly on Facebook and Instagram using Amazon in-app checkout. This week, The Information reports Amazon has landed a similar partnership with Snapchat. Oh, and Amazon […]
The Missing Link Log another demerit for YouTube transparency. Four buyers say their post-campaign reports for YouTube Select are riddled with broken links, Adweek reports. Google introduced YouTube Select in 2020 as a way for buyers to purchase premium YouTube inventory, including top-performing channels and YouTube TV. YouTube sends buyers post-campaign reports with links they […]
Transparency is making its way into CTV bid requests, including supply source, content genre and, increasingly, show-level transparency. According to Rob Hazan, senior director of streaming TV product at Index Exchange, the right amount of transparency could make the open exchange a viable place for CTV ad budgets.
Viewers might want to watch trashy shows from time to time, but they certainly don’t want to watch trashy ads. For the solution to what ails CTV, the industry could turn to another rapidly growing marketing favorite: retail media.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Sweet Tooth In an alternate universe, perhaps, Chrome met its original deadline, and advertisers are 18 months beyond third-party cookies. But here we are, two can-kicks down the road, and some industry observers think Chrome won’t make its 2024 deadline either, Insider reports. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Long-Tail Retail Walmart Connect and Target Roundel are the two retail media players with the biggest adoption outside of Amazon, according to a recent Digiday survey. But both lag far behind Amazon’s 76% adoption rate. Twenty-four percent of those surveyed used Walmart Connect’s […]
DSPs and SSPs are being graded by TAG TrustNet on whether they comply with a key transparency initiative: sharing log-file data. Find out who’s passing and who’s failing. Then, we count the ways CTV suppliers are embracing programmatic buying.
A lot has already been said and cited during the Google ad tech antitrust trial, with more to come. Here are a few of the most notable quotables from the first two weeks.
The FTC’s latest staff report has strong message for social media and streaming video platforms: Stop engaging in the “vast surveillance” of consumers.
Publishers were encouraged to see the DOJ highlight Google’s stranglehold on the ad server market and its attempts to weaken header bidding.
Albert Thompson, a buy-side veteran with 20+ years of experience, weighs in on attention metrics, the value of MFA sites, brand safety backlash and how publishers can improve their inventory.
Someone will eventually need to make a Netflix-style documentary about the Google ad tech antitrust trial happening in Virginia. (And can we call it “You’ve Been Ad Served?”)
In the process of the investigation into Google, the Department of Justice unearthed a vast trove of separate evidence. Some of these findings paint a whole new picture of how Google interacts and competes with its main DSP rival, The Trade Desk.
