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    The Parade Of Performance Pluses; YouTube And Netflix Battle It Out

    In today’s newsletter: Pinterest launches an ad optimization solution with familiar-sounding name; consumers can’t live without YouTube; and ad tech leaders try out trade journalism.

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    Can Retail’s Long Tail Tie Together?; Don’t Text And Drive

    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 […]

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    Publishers Grapple With The “Post-Social” Web; The Plight Of The 25-Year-Old Media Planner

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The ‘Post-Social’ Web The writing is on the wall: Big Tech is breaking up with news, and the traffic publishers used to rely on from search and social media isn’t coming back any time soon. Last week, Google cut about 40 positions from […]

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    TV Inventory Keeps Dwindling; The MFA And DEI Mixup

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rare Wares TV inventory is on track to become an even scarcer resource. US television (linear and streaming combined) will likely lose almost a quarter of its ad inventory volume over the next four years, according to media prognosticator Brian Wieser, writing at […]

  • Amazon Prime Shall Soon Have Ads; Programmatic Has Delicate Dynamics

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Primed For Ads Amazon Prime is the latest streaming service that will add ads, Variety reports. Early next year, ad units will start to appear in Prime Video shows and movies for subscribers in the US, UK, Canada and Germany. Though people will have […]

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    Game Apps Get Tougher For Ad Tech; Is The Newsletter Apocalypse Nigh?

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. All Fun And Games (For Some) A week ago, Google quietly made a large chunk of mobile gaming revenue disappear with the news that it would prohibit certain in-game formats – namely, full-screen ads that display unexpectedly, full-screen ads that display before the main […]

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    The Most Valuable Sites You’ve Never Heard Of; Facebook Tries Not To Piss Off Its Users

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. B2B Goes Back To Basics B2B publishers, intent-based media, SEO sites: They’re the biggest media companies you’ve never heard of, according to Brian Morrissey at The Rebooting.  It’s a category that gets little attention – at least not compared to the likes of Vox […]

  • Ad Targeting In The State Of The Union; Why Gaming Is The New Beating Heart Of Subscription Packages

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Not Kidding Around  During the State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Biden called on lawmakers to get cracking on legislation that bans ads targeted at kids. “It’s time to ban targeted advertising to children, [and to] demand tech companies stop collecting personal […]

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    Digital Media Tightens Its Belt After Feasting On Garbage Metrics; Social Media Gets A CAT Scan

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. LOL Remember Comscore Rankings? Digital publishing is in a period of self-reflection. Instead of bragging about mass reach, the new norm will be looking at rational numbers to evaluate reach and readership, writes Brian Morrissey, former president and editor-in-chief of Digiday who now writes […]