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In today’s newsletter: Companies looking to sell data target the US market; which media companies to bet on at TV upfronts; and generative AI data licensing is the new publisher revenue stream.

The company’s total revenue was down 1% YOY due to a decline in ad revenue across its News Media and Dow Jones publishing groups.

In today’s newsletter: The Trade Desk opens up OpenPath to CTV inventory; subscriptions remain an important revenue source for news publishers; and a class-action lawsuit alleges PHE violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. SP-Oh, It’s On Call it supply-path optimization, transparency or premium publisher marketplaces. Whichever you choose, Digiday writes, it “amounts to disintermediation.” In recent years, DSPs have leapfrogged SSPs to establish direct connections with media companies. The marketers are interested in media, after all, […]

The Financial Times has long avoided chasing open web programmatic ad revenue. Now, with signal loss prompting a renaissance for contextual targeting and direct deals – and with momentum behind attention metrics, of which the FT was an early proponent going back to 2015 – the publisher’s longtime strategy seems prescient. Brendan Spain, the FT’s VP of advertising for the Americas, spoke with AdExchanger.

To better monetize branded content, the Financial Times is investing more in brand lift measurement. FT is partnering with analytics provider Brand Metrics to implement the firm’s ad exposure algorithms into FT’s multiplatform approach to branded content, said global insight director Enzo Diliberto.

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Brendan Spain, vice president of advertising for the Americas at the Financial Times. The subprime mortgage crisis of 2008 came to a head when mortgage-backed securities that had received AAA ratings were jammed with […]

Financial Times has started using automation to make selling long-tail inventory more efficient. Automation allows Facebook and Google to capture significant ad revenue from small buyers. But for publishers like the FT, managing those campaigns requires tremendous manpower. Consider that 55% of its global ad campaigns in 2018 had budgets under 10,000 pounds. Salespeople and […]

By Sarah Sluis, Ryan Joe, Allison Schiff, Alison Weissbrot and Rae Paoletta Programmatic is expanding, becoming a glossier way to transact and add value to both the buy and sell sides. “We are moving rapidly into a programmatic-first world,” said Sal Candela, president of enterprise partnerships at Omnicom. “There is a surge of quality inventory […]

Parsec, an ad network that creates what it calls “politely interruptive” ad experiences, raised $1.5 million in seed funding on Wednesday from a slew of big-name backers in the ad space. Some of those investors include Jonah Goodhart, the CEO of Moat, who made his contribution by way of early stage capital investor group WGI; […]