The Big Story features a roundtable discussion with the AdExchanger editorial team on the week’s top news stories. New and previously published episodes are available on this page and on your preferred podcast app.
We take Google’s unstoppable growth for granted. And yet, on Monday, it might not have stopped, but it certainly slowed – dropping from 28% in Q1 2018 to 17% a year later. Seventeen percent growth isn’t bad for most companies, but it’s worrying for Google. And it’s still not clear exactly what happened. This week […]
This week “The Big Story” is all about coming together. First up, our editor Alison Weissbrot outlines how the Comcast-Cox-Charter sales consortium NCC Media and AT&T-owned Xandr are each in their own way trying to aggregate more addressable TV inventory. You’ll recall that multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) are granted two minutes of inventory to […]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Publicis Groupe spent billions on a tech company. That déjà vu you’re feeling? Could have a little something to do with the $4.4 billion Publicis just paid for Epsilon. This week on “The Big Story,” the team looks at this massive acquisition on the heels of Dentsu buying […]
The Big Story is a podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. This week on “The Big Story,” a bipartisan bill (Hey, it exists!) seeks to protect consumers against the encroachment of dark patterns. IBM jettisons the remnants […]
The Big Story is a podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. We ride hard and fast this week on “The Big Story,” with three tales of industry upheaval. First, we consider the prospect of a Google Chrome […]
It’s a challenging time for agencies, so it’s not surprising that the 4A’s Decisions conference in Washington, DC, this week served as an industrywide pep talk. But in many ways the messages about being strategic partners, transparency and incentivizing collaboration have been playing on repeat over the past two years. This week on “The Big […]
The Big Story is a podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. Agencies are moving to buy connected TV (CTV) inventory, but wherever there’s construction, there’s dust. The issue is that agency buying teams are at odds over […]
The Big Story is a podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. Online advertising grew up around the second-price auction, where the winning bidder pays the second-highest bid. It’s great for buyers because they have the opportunity to […]
The Big Story is a podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. It was a pressure cooker last week in ad tech land – but then again, when is it not? Comcast feels the heat from AT&T’s Xandr […]
When the world changes, sometimes you need to change with it. But evolution doesn’t always happen – or sometimes you just end up moving in the wrong direction. This week on “The Big Story,” AdExchanger looks at RockYou’s bankruptcy and, on a much larger scale, the major pain at Kraft Heinz. With RockYou, the publisher-slash-ad […]
