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Threads will introduce ads to capitalize on users fleeing X; Perplexity tests ads and sponsored queries; and Amazon pulls the plug on Freevee.

On Monday, PMG acquired Camelot, an independent media and marketing agency that specializes in buying video, OTT and CTV. This acquisition marks PMG’s first since its founding 13 years ago.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Apple’s Sauce As Apple wades deeper into the advertising industry sea with its own ad network and attribution system, the company might have to navigate a tricky riptide if it upsets iPhone customers or attracts a regulator’s ire. For instance, Apple doesn’t apply […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Point Of No Return Amazon set the bar with its liberal refund policy – it’s quick to credit consumers for missing or unsatisfactory items – and one- or two-day shipping. Matching Amazon’s standards is a brutally expensive challenge for retailers, who must […]

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. Marvelous Marketing Disney and Target are a bellwether case study for how deeply interwoven major enterprise marketing partnerships can be nowadays. In 2019, Target and Disney announced an advertising attribution product based on the Google Cloud Platform to attribute retail sales to TV […]

While tapping into purchases helps advertisers close the loop around the actual conversion, the use cases for purchase data have evolved far beyond measurement. The use of transactional data is maturing in media activation, as is the ability to commingle it with other data sources like behavioral, location and even panels in channels like addressable […]

The convergence of retail and ecommerce accelerated with a blockbuster Friday when it was announced that Amazon would buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion and Wal-Mart is snapping up ecommerce men’s clothing company Bonobos for $310 million. The market response to the deals was clear, particularly to Amazon’s 11-digit investment in a brick-and-mortar footprint. The […]