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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Is Free Social A ZIRP? Social media is free. Well, it’s supposed to be, anyway. That’s the point. All your friends join, it’s free fun, and rather than paying money you get served with ads.  But that could change. On Monday, Android Authority […]

The CEOs of the three largest advertising trade orgs – IAB, ANA and 4A’s – agree that we need a federal privacy law. They just don’t agree on exactly how to get there.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Buy, Build Or Borrow? When should brands in-house their media and when should they turn to an agency? Marketing consultant Alex Greifeld posts about this conundrum in her newsletter, No Best Practices. While practically every major brand needs advertising services in some way, […]

Looking for unvarnished, sharp views on transparency, the lack thereof, defining ad quality and the industry’s new obsession with made-for-advertising websites? Then this is the episode for you, with guest Tom Triscari, CEO and founder of programmatic advisory firm Lemonade Projects.

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 […]

YouTube is very much in the hot seat. However, let’s zoom out and consider all of the different media companies and platforms that are doling out “grab bags” of video inventory.

Albertsons Media Collective, the retail media network (RMN) operated by food and drug retailer Albertsons, released a working draft of a retail media standardization framework on Thursday.

According to the ANA, brands could save at least $20 billion a year by cutting out low-quality programmatic inventory on the open web.

Freddie Liversidge, HP’s global head of media, explains the benefits and challenges of building an in-house digital media agency from the ground up.

Health data and race are sensitive topics on their own. Put them together, and it’s easy to see why people struggle to thoughtfully tailor their marketing efforts to different audiences. Still, many health care marketers are opting in to race-based targeting to stay relevant and reach underserved populations.

Retail media networks overall still have a ways to go before they’re able to satisfy several basic buy-side demands, including better measurement, more transparency and some form of standardization.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Lost And Found If you’re wondering what happened to all the titles HBO Max just cut, they were rehomed across two other streaming platforms. On Tuesday, Warner Bros. Discovery announced that it’s making more than 220 canceled titles available on Roku and Tubi […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trust But Verify An Instagram fraud scheme used free-to-set-up music creator personas on Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer and a spattering of sponsored posts and press releases to convince Instagram to dish out blue-check verifications to hundreds of undeserving or outright fraudulent accounts since […]

Broadcasters have long been dissatisfied with Nielsen’s panel-based approach. But now, panels are making headlines again as a fresh way to measure streaming and TV consumption. But this time, the TV industry says it’s talking about “calibration panels,” not audience panels.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Since You Asked … When the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) asked what tech companies thought of Apple, Meta happily chimed in.  Meta, which has lost billions of dollars due to Apple’s new tracking prompt, says its ability to innovate has been […]

The advertising industry is taking a few hits these days. Legislators are looking hard at treating ad platforms like utilities. Nefarious state actors have hacked our political discourse and even our understanding of facts. But this isn’t the first time the ad industry is facing choppy waters. The ad world is in desperate need of a new position: the Chief Morality Officer, writes Marilois Snowman, CEO and founder of Mediastruction.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Improved Transparency (Sure … ) The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) has launched a certification program for addressable media identifiers (AMIs), which have become super important since ATT.  If you haven’t heard of AMIs, don’t worry. It’s not a common term, at least not […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Contextual Seed The contextual ad tech startup Seedtag raised $40 million, Business Insider reports. The Spanish company plans to add 30 employees and expand its US footprint. Before this round, Seedtag had raised $6 million to date. But contextual targeting is a buzzy category, […]

Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) recently commissioned a new programmatic study to identify where brands are wasting money and make recommendations that will bring more clarity and efficiency to this market. (Read the RFP.) In the most […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. New Crew With Biden in the White House, the Federal Trade Commissions and the Federal Communications Commission are playing the usual game of musical chairs triggered by a new administration. The Republican heads of both agencies – Ajit Pai at the FCC and Joe […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Martin Kihn, senior vice president of strategy, Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Measurement is a footnote – outglamorized by targeting and the opera of browsers, pushed into the corner during debates about the future […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. OMG A ‘Trusted Tech Partnership’ OMG OMG OMG For the first time in all recorded history, people went bats over a “trusted technology partnership.” That’s because the partnership is between Oracle and TikTok owner ByteDance. And maybe that means Oracle will buy TikTok, now that Microsoft […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Adobe’s Ad Cloud Drags Adobe is “significantly” accelerating its plan to eliminate its low-margin Advertising Cloud transaction-driven business and focus on the software side of the business. “The transaction business is very resource-intensive,” CEO Shantanu Narayen said Thursday when explaining the move during Adobe’s […]

You won’t catch Bob Liodice, president and CEO of the Association of National Advertisers, Instagramming his lunch or stress-baking sourdough bread during the day. He’s at his computer by 6 a.m. and working until 6 or 7 at night from his home office on Long Island (aka, his grown daughter’s former bedroom). These long days […]

Over the last two weeks, there probably wasn’t a lawyer in America who didn’t field at least one phone call from a stressed-out client asking about activating force majeure to get out of a contract. With events on ice for the foreseeable – media buys either canceled or postponed and commercial productions ground to a […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Sorry, Not Sorry Apologies, ad industry, it looks like enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act will kick off as planned on July 1. Trade orgs, including the Association of National Advertisers, requested that the attorney general hold off on enforcing the law until […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hold The Phone The smartphone industry took a beating this month, and Apple in particular has to rethink its plans for the long term. Thirty-eight percent fewer total smartphones were shipped last month, as consumer spending fell and manufacturing shuttered in China. Apple will […]

When ads positively portray people from a racial or cultural group, or contain cultural insights that resonate with members of that group, they measurably boost brand KPIs such as purchase intent, brand loyalty and brand relevance. But efforts to measure cultural inclusivity are in their infancy. One such effort – a new panel-based metric called […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. News You Can Use Many publishers face a tough choice with their COVID-19 coverage. A mix of anxiety about breaking news and being stuck at home means page views are way up, but the traffic surge goes to coronavirus stories that many advertisers wish […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cookie Crumbs Industry trade bodies are not pleased with Google’s bombshell announcement this week that it would phase out support for third-party cookies over the next two years. In an open letter, the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and the American Association of Advertising […]