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  • Amazon’s Ad Business Boxes Out Sellers; Mozilla Tests Switching Default Search Engine

    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 […]

  • Paramount Plus Launches AVOD; Facebook Takes A Potshot At Apple Over Creator Fees

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Plus Ads Paramount Plus rolled out its ad-supported version on Monday at $4.99 per month for those consumers who don’t feel like shelling out $9.99 for the commercial-free plan. The new AVOD offering is slightly cheaper than the $5.99 option that was part of […]

  • Twitter Integrates With Nielsen In Bid For TV Dollars

    Allison Schiff contributed Twitter is expanding its relationship with Nielsen to boost its ability to plan and execute video strategies. The company will integrate Nielsen Media Impact (NMI) and Nielsen Ad Intel — solutions that help advertisers to measure and plan campaigns across a variety of media platforms — into the Twitter Amplify video ad […]

  • Google CFO Ruth Porat Undaunted By Antitrust Suits; Amazon Scores With NFL Deal

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bring It, Joe  Google is certainly going through the ringer this week, especially with a House judiciary antitrust subcommittee hearing that will look into whether laws should be bolstered  to better address monopoly power. But apparently the increased regulator pressure is nothing new. That’s […]

  • Advertising And Audience Complicate The NFL’s Entry Into Streaming

    A week before ViacomCBS rebranded CBS All Access as Paramount Plus on March 4, George Cheeks, president and CEO of CBS Entertainment Group, noted that NFL football in particular will be fundamental to the platform’s growth.  “It drives more subscriptions than any other program, and significant engagement too,” Cheeks said during the company’s Feb. 24 […]

  • TikTok And WPP Ink Early Access Deal; Advertisers Worry About Tokyo Olympics Cancellation

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Brand Value TikTok has inked a partnership with media holding company WPP that will give its media clients early access to the social platform’s emerging services. With 1 billion monthly active users – the app has been downloaded more than 2.6 billion times worldwide […]

  • Tech Giants Lobby EU Lawmakers; The NFL Readies Makegoods As Ratings Drop

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Reining In Big Tech Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google continue to be in the antitrust crosshairs of regulators at home and abroad. According to Business Insider, European legislators were set to unveil a raft of new policy proposals Tuesday designed to curb the influence […]

  • Nielsen To Overhaul Its Currency; Super Bowl Advertisers Try To Predict The Future

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Give It The Ol’ Rip And Replace Nielsen recently updated its panel-based currency to include data from smart TVs and set-top boxes – but an even bigger change is on the horizon. According to The Wall Street Journal, Nielsen will completely replace its TV […]

  • Facebook political ads

    Facebook (Finally) Takes Some Action On Political Ads; Brands Demand Flexibility On Their TV Spend

    Baby Steps Facebook will block political ads in the week leading up to the US Presidential election in an effort to suppress misinformation. The platform will also flag posts that come from candidates either claiming victory before the official results are finalized or trying to dispute the outcome. Facebook has already restricted the ability to […]

  • Disney EVP Lisa Valentino On Social Change, And What Happens When Sports Pauses

    When Disney ad sales chief Rita Ferro approached Lisa Valentino about leading the entertainment giant’s client and brands solutions team, which had more than 500 people, Lisa knew it would be a big and different role, despite her background running sales organizations. As EVP of client & brand solutions, Lisa transitioned the organization through the […]

  • Adobe To End Transaction-Based Ad Cloud Biz; ANA Asks To Postpone Upfronts

    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 […]

  • The NFL Draft Sees Record Interest During Live Sports Drought

    So much chips and salsa is slowly growing stale, beer and soda going flat. If you think the average American TV viewer misses live sports, consider the desperation for brands that target sports advertising. The NFL Draft is seeing clearly enough, with a surge of demand from advertisers that are itching for the return of […]

  • What Happens To Sports Marketing Budgets Without Sports?

      March Madness. The Olympics. The NBA and NHL playoffs. Brand marketers spend billions on tentpole sporting events annually, but with live sports either canceled or postponed for the year, they must now figure out where to repurpose that budget – or decide if they can use it at all. Here’s how marketers are adjusting […]

  • The NFL Tackles Targeting With An Assist From Adobe

    National Football League players train during the offseason – and so does the NFL’s marketing team. From January through July, Aaron Jones, the NFL’s director for club and international marketing, is busily stress-testing his marketing stack and experimenting with new tools to prepare for August and September, when it’s all about activation. “Then, it’s like Black […]

  • What Ticketmaster Is Grateful For This Thanksgiving (Hint: It’s The NFL)

    Thanksgiving and watching football on Thanksgiving are American traditions. But this year will be the first celebration of what you might call Ticketmaster’s football Thanks-for-giving-us-your-business day. The ticket-sales company has secured the exclusive ticketing rights for the NFL and transitioned the league to digital-only tickets this year. Now Ticketmaster is spiking the football – which, […]

  • The Big Story Podcast

    The Big Story: New Faces In Challenging Places

    The Big Story is a breezy new podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. WPP and Nike have some new spokespeople. While Mark Read’s appointment at WPP was expected and uncontroversial, Colin Kaepernick headlining Nike’s new campaign was […]

  • Why The NFL Is Building Its Own Data Co-op

    In the National Football League, the whole team has to know the same playbook for the plays to work. And the same is true for the NFL’s marketing group, which in 2017 began centralizing its audience data to improve team-level marketing and the value of league sponsorships. “We’re building a data co-op, in a sense,” […]

  • How The NFL Adds Mojo To Media With Database Marketing

    The National Football League (NFL) customer database is about as diverse as it gets. Segments span season ticket holders, a millennial parent who loves football but might lack time for games and younger fans who may have been introduced to the sport in school. But the NFL recognizes that “a fan is not a data […]

  • How Frito-Lay Levels The Playing Field Between TV, Digital And Offline For NFL Promos

    Frito-Lay, the $14 billion chip-and-dip division of PepsiCo, wants to engineer 360-degree marketing programs. Ram Krishnan, CMO of Frito-Lay North America, recently outlined a 70-20-10 plan, which will enable it to do so.  The brand will allocate 70% of its resources to proven methodologies, 20% to partners who prove value (Krishnan called it “validated risk”) […]

  • Although Pro Sports Moves Fast, The NFL And NBC Sports Take It Slow In Digital

    Let’s be honest: For all of its success as a business, it’s hard to be impressed with the NFL’s digital presence. Good luck using its overdesigned, slow-loading website to find video highlights of your favorite team’s last game. But little by little, the NFL has opened up its assets to digital experimentation. In January, it […]

  • NFL’s Mobile Chief Moves To Tremor To Lead SSP Roll-Out

    The National Football League’s (NFL) GM of mobile, Manish Jha, has leapt to Tremor Video to spearhead sell-side relationships in his new role as president of publisher platforms. “Tremor has been working with the NFL for some time now and we were really able to manage our direct sales business and network relationship in a […]

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