Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Follow Your Intuition, I Guess Intuit, which owns Mailchimp and accounting software like TurboTax and QuickBooks, is launching an ad network called SMB MediaLabs, Adweek reports. As the name implies, Intuit’s media business is a “small business-focused media network.” But it’s focused on […]
The company’s immediate plans for reinvesting its new capital include hiring more executive leadership to spearhead sales and partnerships, growing its engineering team and expanding its presence in the US and Japan.
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rain or Shine Magna nudged its global ad spend forecast downward in its latest report, released over the weekend, but you can save the drama for your llama. The slide only amounts to a 0.2% drop. Magna expects that ad revenue will grow […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Upfront At The Upfront NBCUniversal’s upfront was quite the affair. Executives had to enter Radio City Music Hall through a side door because the entrance was blocked by Writers Guild of America protesters. (Guess Netflix was onto something.) Once everyone was settled, the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. NBCU Later Linda Yaccarino, NBCU’s (now former) chair of global advertising, is leaving the broadcasting giant to become Twitter’s new CEO. The news was confirmed in a tweet by Elon Musk, who will be stepping down as CEO within the next six weeks. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. “The DDL Difference” The TV industry says addressability is the future. But there’s more to the picture. This upfront season, Warner Bros. Discovery is combining its addressable and data-driven linear (DDL) tech stacks. These offerings were previously separate prior to the merge of […]
CEO Jeff Green pushed back against the idea that DSPs are increasingly competing with SSPs and vice versa, saying it was a fabrication of the trade press.
Proving value for gamers is only one half of the equation. Advertisers won’t spend on in-game advertising unless they can measure their return on investment using the same programmatic tools they use for other media channels.
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What Could Possible Go Wrong? Elon Musk was a splashy late get for the POSSIBLE marketing conference in Miami next week. He’s a major draw, but he comes with risks, as some brand leaders are concerned about Musk’s participation, Semafor reports. In previous […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Shop ’Til You Drop Instagram will shut down the ability to tag items and direct people to a sale during a livestream, TechCrunch reports. The feature had been available since 2020 and was part of Meta’s overall push into more direct payments after […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What Sorcery Is This The CNIL, France’s data protection authority, has been busy lately. The agency fined TikTok earlier this week, Apple a week before that and, on Tuesday, decided a case that could have important ramifications for ad tracking on iOS. What’s […]
National broadcasters, including Warner Bros. Discovery, Fox and NBCU, are forming a joint industry committee to create a standard for multiple cross-platform video currencies in time for the 2024 upfronts. Notably absent from that initial list: Nielsen.
In 2022, top players in digital advertising finally started taking gaming seriously, and the groundwork was laid for programmatic in-game advertising to grow thanks to a long overdue update to the IAB’s and MRC’s in-game ad standards. The scene is also set for in-game advertising to expand into console gaming, and we might even see the debut of the first sell-side platform dedicated to gaming.
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. All Of A Twitter Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition must be near, because Musk is sounding like the real-world owner of Twitter and not a troll trying to harm the business. “There has been much speculation about why I bought Twitter and what I […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Paid Upfront NBCUniversal says this year’s upfronts was its highest-grossing since Comcast acquired the programmer in 2013. Unsurprisingly, streaming media helped break the record. Of NBCU’s $7 billion in ad commitments, per a release, $1 billion is earmarked for its AVOD service Peacock […]
If you were at the Twitter NewFronts presentation on Wednesday evening in New York City and played a drinking game that required you to take a sip every time a Twitter executive said “Elon” or “Musk” … then you would have been stone-cold sober by the end of it.
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Kelly Abcarian joined NBCU last year to lead a team tasked with disrupting the measurement status quo. “Marketers don’t buy ratings,” Abcarian says on this week’s episode. “They buy results.” NBCU’s roster of alternative measurement and audience verification providers now includes seven partners – and counting.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Defunding Disinfo Is defunding disinformation the open web’s biggest challenge? The ad tech consultancy/watchdog Check My Ads made that case at SXSW last week, Fast Company reports. According to the group’s founders, the disinformation crisis is solvable but will require ad exchanges to […]
A new partnership between in-game ad tech company Anzu and NBCUniversal aims to build out the infrastructure for serving in-game ads using programmatic tech by solidifying the connection between brands on the demand side and game developers on the sell side. NBCU will serve as Anzu’s third-party sales partner for the US and UK, combining NBCU’s brand reach with Anzu’s in-game ad inventory.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. An About-Face Six years ago, Google and Facebook had won the digital ad market, or so said Stratechery’s Ben Thompson. After Meta’s latest earnings, he reflects on that prediction: The duo did consolidate most online ad revenue. And Google has outgrown everyone else […]
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During the Summer Olympics, iSpot went for gold – and won. The alternate measurement provider bested more than 50 companies NBCUniversal was trialing as a currency alternative to Nielsen. The testing ground? NBCU’s tentpole global sports event. “NBC didn’t just invite companies to submit RFP responses,” said Sean Muller, founder and CEO of iSpot.tv. “It […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. News It Or Lose It Influencer journalism is a dangerous trend, according to Jessica Lessin, editor-in-chief of The Information. “Long term,” Lessin writes, “the current obsession with treating journalists like influencers isn’t healthy for journalism.” For one, so-called “elite reporters” generally don’t abide by […]
Nielsen’s been through the wringer this year. After underreporting local TV viewing during the pandemic, long-standing frustrations in the television industry hit a boiling point and interest in alternative measurement currencies began to peak. In September, after the Video Advertising Bureau rattled its saber and formally called for Nielsen’s Media Rating Council accreditation to be […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Gotta Spend Money To Spend Money Amazon’s ad business is blowing up. You probably knew that already. But that growth for Amazon isn’t a win for many sellers, particularly the early power users on the platform. There is heavy demand for Amazon inventory, with […]
