Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Win Is A Win? Blue-chip accounts are coveted on Madison Ave, but it’s impossible to tell which clients are really the key wins for the agencies involved. Winning the McDonald’s or Coca-Cola account comes with cachet and solid earned media, but the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Google Gripe Google is refunding agencies for “billing discrepancies,” aka ads that ran in places where they weren’t supposed to, Ad Age reports. The refunds (which Google refers to as credits) closely follow the viral Adalytics report alleging that YouTube placed TrueView ad […]
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 […]
While American gamers are more open to in-game ads than many believe, any such activations must bear the hallmarks of creative and technical excellence.
In 2022, top players in digital advertising finally started taking gaming seriously, and the groundwork was laid for programmatic in-game advertising to grow thanks to a long overdue update to the IAB’s and MRC’s in-game ad standards. The scene is also set for in-game advertising to expand into console gaming, and we might even see the debut of the first sell-side platform dedicated to gaming.
For the most part, metaverse early adopters say they’re just exploring the possibilities rather than trying to really demonstrate ROI. And while hugely popular online games like Roblox and Fortnite are lumped in with metaverse platforms, they’re really Web 2.0 gaming without the decentralized interoperability promised by Web 3.0 and blockchain technology. The few actual metaverse environments in market, such as Decentraland and The Sandbox, don’t offer the audience reach advertisers crave.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The “Go” In Google There are two important privacy issues at the top of EU regulator agendas right now: a GDPR case against IAB Europe and Schrems II cases targeting Google Analytics. On the one hand, IAB Europe supporters seem heartened, counterintuitively, after […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bouncing Back The virtual Upfronts have concluded; the celebrities have bounced; the guest DJs are spinning on Brooklyn rooftops. And the time has come for advertisers to commit. The broadcast industry wants to know whether flashy presentations by Disney, NBCUniversal, ViacomCBS, WarnerMedia and others […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tim Talks Move over Epic, it’s Tim’s turn. The Apple CEO had his say in federal court on Friday as part of a lawsuit Epic filed after its hugely popular game Fortnite was removed from the App Store last year for flouting Apple’s requirement […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Swan Song? Telcos rushed headlong into the ad tech business, but will they survive it? Verizon washed its hands of ad tech with the sale of Verizon Media to Apollo; And Xandr is in limbo following AT&T’s mega-spinoff of WarnerMedia. But three’s a trend. […]
