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After adopting OpenPath, Freestar pubs now see 3x higher inventory fill rate from The Trade Desk demand and 27% higher programmatic revenue from these buyers.

AI-equipped consumer products keep failing; why the newsletter boom might be nothing but spam; and retaliatory tariffs hit America where it hurts.

Just because curated PMPs and direct-to-DSP deals are trendy doesn’t mean they should be the focus of every publisher’s tech stack.

Two perspectives have emerged on curation: The value argument highlights refined audience targeting, while the ad network argument emphasizes enabling smaller players to compete with scaled giants.

The first ever AdExchanger comic offers a look at how the ad tech industry has – and hasn’t – changed in the 13 years since it was published.

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.

Since 2020, brands have made commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in their ad campaigns and spending. In response, a number of ad networks have cropped up that specialize in connecting advertisers to diverse audiences via partnerships with minority-owned and minority-led publishers. My Code Founder and CEO Parker Morse believes the rise of multicultural ad networks over the past two years is great news for the advertising industry and for efforts to monetize minority-led publishers’ media inventory.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Working Their Retails Off Retail media is in growth-stage limbo. Retailers have flooded the category with no guarantee advertising will pay off.  The latest is the craft store Michaels, which launched a retail media platform on Wednesday in partnership with Criteo. Amazon sets the […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Buy What You Know Shopify and Roku announced a partnership to bring a Roku app for CTV ad creation and campaign management to the dashboard of all Shopify merchants. The idea is to crack into the $16.4 billion that small and medium-sized businesses spend […]

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Zynga might be in the market to buy some ad tech. The online and mobile gaming developer, which posted record Q4 earnings on Wednesday, fueled by an all-time best revenue and bookings quarter for Words With Friends, is in the midst of building its own ad network to expand its addressable market. Revenue for the […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. #Winning Netflix is outshining the competition. Last year, the streaming giant added subscribers even as it cut spending on advertising, The Information reports. By contrast, most of the older entertainment companies entering the streaming wars shelled out beaucoup bucks on marketing. A recent securities […]

Retail media networks are having a moment, because they’re positioned to add relevance in a cookieless world, says Luke Kigel, VP of Walgreens integrated media and head of the Walgreens Advertising Group (WAG). Walgreens put a bow on its retail media network, dubbed WAG, in early December. But the launch is part of a larger […]

The CVS Media Exchange (CMX), CVS Pharmacy’s new ad network, launched in August. But it was in the works before COVID-19 hit. The pandemic makes for interesting timing, though. “Ecommerce and omnichannel shopping were already on the rise,” said Erin Condon, VP of front store and omnichannel marketing at CVS Health. “But in a post-COVID […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Google Cuts Google plans to reduce marketing investments for the second half of 2020 by up to half, CNBC reported. A selective hiring freeze has also been imposed for both full-time and contractual employees. “We are reevaluating the pace of our investment plans for […]

Before Yieldbot CEO Jonathan Mendez laid off one-third of the company’s employees in mid-July, the company had suffered a series of setbacks. With $10 million in funding last year, Yieldbot bet on a header bidding wrapper that didn’t pay off. Instead, AppNexus won the header bidding wrapper wars with Prebid. Then it had a bad […]

Genesis Media revealed Thursday that it has merged with video ad platform Altitude Digital. The combined entity will do business as Genesis Media. Details of the transaction were not disclosed. The merger comes months after Altitude’s former CEO stepped down. The company, which started out as an ad net, was seeking to reposition itself as […]

It’s high time programmatic became available to the budding cannabis industry, which is projected to hit $8 billion by 2020, but regulatory hurdles have kept it from lighting up. Instead of examining the legal ramifications around cannabis marketing, many advertising platforms simply fall back on a blanket ban, said Paris Holley, chief technology officer of […]

When Undertone released its programmatic platform Virtuoso in September, the goal, according to co-founder Eric Franchi, was for it to eventually become the primary console of brands and agencies that want to purchase high-impact ad units, or ads that use unique formats designed to snag the audience’s attention. The onetime ad network has hired George […]

An ad-network stalwart is struggling. The earnings release on the SEC’s site has few details on the display advertising performance for ValueClick, but the earnings call was another matter. In spite of its acquisition of display ad retargeter Dotomi in 2011, ValueClick continues to search for solutions to shore up the company’s growth potential. Its Q2 2013 […]

Worldwide advertising revenue for Amazon will reach more than $800 million in 2013, as the company leverages its rich customer data and deals with the challenges of mobile advertising, according to a new forecast from eMarketer. “We’ve been looking at Amazon as a business for a while now, and at this point we felt there […]

Moving beyond smartphones and tablets, Opera Mediaworks introduced AdMarvel, an ad network for internet-connected TVs that brings together an ad exchange, ad serving and ad management functionalities. “A connected TV looks a lot like a tablet computer,” explained Opera Mediaworks CEO Mahi de Silva. “Given our experience in the tablet and smartphone space, as well […]

Based in Beijing, China, Redpoint Ventures-backed Domob says that its mobile in-app ad network is booming and well-positioned to take over the Chinese mobile ad market, according to its co-founder and COO Zhang He.  Moreover, the company’s executive team is now in place, plucked from Chinese internet services companies Baidu and Sohu.com among others. But […]

Having co-founded Collective in 2005, CEO Joe Apprendi has seen his company’s ad network reconfigured, if not entirely reimagined, as programmatic audience buying transforms the publisher ad network model. And as placement has given way to audience buying in recent years, Apprendi and his team have looked to keep pace with products such as its audience […]

AudienceScience has shuttered its publisher network business to focus completely on marketing technology. The move is yet another sign of weak demand for traditional ad networks, as buyers steadily migrate budgets to exchange-traded media bought through DSPs. President Mike Peralta tells AdExchanger, “The transition has been in the works for 12 to 18 months. Across […]

Ad networks are alive and well when it comes to certain discrete, vertical markets. Jim Barkow can attest. He was CEO of shopper media/e-commerce ad network Longboard Media, up until early November when he — along with his company — were acquired by Bazaarvoice. (See the release.) Barkow, who will stay on as Bazaarvoice’s GM […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Studying Facebook Ads A new survey on Facebook ad efficicacy leaves the reader wondering – just wondering – because there are so many opinions on whether the ads work or not Ad Age’s Michael Learmonth introduces the results of the study crafted by his […]

Despite AOL’s efforts to build up its owned & operated sites, including the Huffington Post Media Group its local content offering Patch, the portal’s real growth has always come from its Advertising.com ad network. So it wasn’t too much of a surprise when AOL announced a few executive shifts that are designed to highlight the […]

Facebook is keeping the door open to an ad network. Its recently updated Data Use Policy says, “We may serve ads, including those with social context (or serve just social context), on other sites.” But “may” doesn’t equal “will.” In conversations with AdExchanger, Facebook observers place bets on if and when Facebook will launch an […]

Mike Cassidy is CEO of Undertone, an advertising technology and services company. Cassidy recently spoke to AdExchanger about his company and industry trends. Click below or scroll for more: Is Undertone An Ad Network? The Agency Client and Blurring Lines Programmatic Buying’s Effect On Building “The Stack” Momentum and Milestones AdExchanger.com: People think of Undertone […]