A Google Ads Glitch Likely Triggered A Data Breach Within Google Merchant Center
A major Google glitch caused unencrypted customer and product info to be shared between Google Merchant Center accounts for at least two weeks.
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PODCAST: The Big StoryThe Looming Question Of Cookie Consent
What will Chrome’s third-party consent look like? We offer our best guess. Plus, we spotlight the controversy around ID bridging. The tactic supplies IDs for cookieless inventory through a spectrum of approaches, and not all of them are buyer-approved.
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IAS Is Battling DV For Moat’s Soon-To-Be-Former Business
Integral Ad Science CEO Lisa Utzschneider told investors during the company’s Q2 earnings call on Thursday that IAS is “in the thick of the Oracle opportunity, and we’re playing to win.”
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The First Programmatic Olympics Is Attracting New Advertisers
Athletes aren’t the only ones competing during the Paris Olympics. Advertisers are bidding to reach tens of millions of viewers during the first programmatic Olympic Games.
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Comic: The Adventures Of Cookie Monster
Enjoy this weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem …
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Why Retailers Lock Up Brand-Name Items; Walking Before They Crawl
Pharmacies, groceries and even convenience stores have taken to locking up large swathes of merchandise. Plus, Roblox reported Q2 earnings on Thursday.
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Criteo Touts Its Agency And Walled Garden Partners
Q2 was relatively ho-um for Criteo. Its revenue ticked up by just 1%, although the company did move from a net loss of $2 million in the year-ago quarter to a $28 million profit.
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Reddit Acquires Memorable AI To Build Its Version of Google PMax
The acquisition puts Reddit in a better position to compete with Google, Meta, Amazon and TikTok, which all built or expanded their AI creative generation and optimization tools within the past year.
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Magnite Tackles Fully Automated Prebid Wrapper Optimization
Ranker saw a 5% increase in demand from a new fully automated Prebid wrapper optimization feature in Magnite’s Demand Manager.
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A Black Box, But Show Me What’s Inside; A Scrape You Can’t Bandage
In today’s newsletter: Google Performance Max enables third-party brand safety measurement for YouTube; gen AI firms roll out new data-scraping bots to replace those blocked by publishers; and RAG deals give publishers more leverage in licensing their content to gen AI.
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Google And The DOJ Recap Their Cases In The Countdown To Closing Arguments
If you’re trying to read more than 1,000 pages of legal documents about the US v. Google ad tech antitrust case on Election Day, you’ve come to the right place.
NYT’s Ad And Subscription Revenue Surge As WaPo Flails
While WaPo recently lost 250,000 subscribers due to concerns over its journalistic independence, NYT added 260,000 subscriptions in Q3 thanks largely to the popularity of its non-news offerings.
How Kenvue Avoided $3 Million In Wasted Media Spend
Stop thinking about brand safety verification as “insurance” – a way to avoid undesirable content – and start thinking about it as an opportunity to build positive brand associations, says Kenvue’s Mark Proulx.
Based On Its Q3 Earnings, Maybe AIphabet Should Just Change Its Name To AI-phabet
Google hit some impressive revenue benchmarks in Q3. But investors seemed to only have eyes for AI.
Reddit’s Ads Biz Exploded In Q3, Albeit From A Small Base
Ad revenue grew 56% YOY even without some of Reddit’s shiny new ad products, including generative AI creative tools and in-comment ads, being fully integrated into its platform.
Freestar Is Taking The ‘Baby Carrot’ Approach To Curation
Freestar adopted a new approach to curation developed by Audigent that gives buyers a priority lane to publisher inventory with higher viewability and attention scores than most open-auction inventory.