Getting cozy with agencies wasn’t always a priority for Criteo, which has direct relationships with more than 20,000 clients. But now that Criteo has commerce and retail media aspirations, it needs to strike agency partnerships, says its CRO Brian Gleason.
This article is based on interviews with participants. Martin Kihn speaks to all the main players. It was inspired by Microsoft’s supposedly surprising selection as Netflix’s ad tech partner. But driven by the acquisition of AT&T’s Xandr, that’s just the latest chapter in a breathtaking adventure of pivots, write-downs, partnerships and potential.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Dos Va Donya IPONWEB founder and CEO Boris Mouzykantskii published an open letter and update on the company’s actions since the start of the war in Ukraine. There was theoretical concern the war would be a wrench in the $380 million acquisition of IPONWEB […]
Is Criteo building an “anti-Google machine” with its proposed $380 million acquisition of IPONWEB? Criteo CEO Megan Clarken and Todd Parsons, chief product officer, weigh in and explain the vision. In short: the open web needs a hero.
Criteo is buying IPONWEB, the engineering company that built most of the underlying infrastructure for the ad tech ecosystem. The deal represents a huge chess move on the part of Criteo. So, what does Criteo get from acquiring the company responsible for building the foundation of programmatic advertising as it exists today?
Is ad tech’s cookieless future bright or bleak? “We are about to find out,” said Boris Mouzykantskii, CEO and co-founder of IPONWEB, speaking onstage at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO event in New York City on Monday. About to find out we are. Ready or not, third-party cookies will eventually be tossed onto the dust heap of […]
