Publishers

Aditude plans to spend the money doubling its headcount and enhancing its cloud-based prebid wrapper and other publisher tools.

While Publisher Collective didn’t see a positive or negative revenue impact from decluttering its clients’ ads.txt, it learned a lot about which of its partners were valuable and the amount of waste hidden within unnecessary line items.

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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 […]

Armed with Ads.txt and Sellers.json files, Nandini Jammi, co-founder of Check My Ads Institute, spends her days exposing how money flows through the twisted pipes of the programmatic supply chain. Her goal? To defund disinformation, toxic content and hate online.

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 […]

Brands need to start preparing for a contentious election season, crafting strategies for how they’ll deal with hot-button issues.

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 […]

CTV’s over-frequency problem is as real as the pressure streaming services are under to grow their average revenue per user. But you don’t have to sacrifice one to achieve the other, says Jamie Power, Disney’s SVP of addressable sales.

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 […]