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On Tuesday, self-serve CTV platform Vibe.co announced its new suite of four different AI-powered features, including a video ad generator.

The Connected Commerce Council (CCC), a lobbying organization based in Washington, DC, hosted a virtual press conference to spotlight small businesses and their concerns with the APRA, the latest attempt at setting national privacy standards.

TV-focused demand side platform Madhive acquires Frequence, an omnichannel marketing platform with roots in broadcast TV. Both companies have a foothold with local advertisers.

Landing page specialist Unbounce is buying attribution and analytics software provider LeadsRx in a bid to help its SMB clients increase the quality and volume of their conversions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Opera Ads, the online ad platform launched by Norwegian browser maker Opera in 2019, is serving up some self-serve. On Wednesday, Opera launched Opera Ad Manager, a self-serve ad platform to buy inventory on Opera News (not to be confused with a publication of the same name about the actual opera) that doesn’t use third-party […]

Here’s something meta for you: Facebook is running a targeted ad campaign to promote the importance of … targeted advertising. On Thursday, Facebook launched a national push that aims to demonstrate the value of personalized ads, especially for small businesses reeling from the ongoing pandemic. The campaign, under the title “Good Ideas Deserve To Be […]

Facebook’s got its claws out, calling Apple’s move to require an opt-in for the IDFA “an attack on personalized advertising” that will harm small businesses, creators and kittens. Well, not kittens, necessarily. It’s just that it’s a little hard not to be facetious when a multibillion-dollar company that just got hit with twin antitrust lawsuits […]

Facebook launched a new feature on Friday that will allow small businesses to promote, host and monetize live online events on its platform – and took aim at Apple in the process. The paid online events feature, which will initially be available in the United States and 19 other countries, enables anyone with a monetizable […]

This Isn’t Even My Final Form Will Sony acquire anime streaming service Crunchyroll from AT&T and pair it with its existing service Funimation? According to The Information, the big sticking point keeping that dream from happening is the price: AT&T reportedly wants $1.5 billion. While the initial move to offload Crunchyroll began in May, it […]