monetization

Josef Najm, director of programmatic and partnerships at Reuters, has a message for advertisers: Don’t be afraid of journalism.

When will Meta monetize Threads, its new text-based app? Too soon to say, according to Alvin Bowles, Meta’s new sales leader. But if past behavior is the best indicator of future performance, it’s only a matter of time (and user engagement).

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Great Search TikTok has made waves because of its organic traction as a new kind of search engine. People use it to look for stores and restaurants nearby, where to travel, where to stay – you name it. But TikTok hasn’t effectively […]

Brands and tech vendors can do a lot more to make good on their public promises to support diverse and Black-owned media, says Rhonesha Byng, the CEO and founder of Her Agenda, a digital media platform for millennial women, and co-creator of the Black Owned Media Equity and Sustainability Institute.

Premium publishers are some of the least compliant with Google’s Core Web Vitals. The result, writes Alexander Azarov, CEO and founder of Clickio, is bad advertising outcomes, such as accidental clicks and low engagement. Here’s how to fix the problem.

Content recommendation doesn’t have the best reputation. It’s primarily known for spammy clickbait around the web. But it doesn’t have to be that way, said Alon Rosenthal, CEO and founder of WhizzCo, a startup that allows multiple content recommendation vendors to compete for native inventory so publishers can maximize their yield. Typically, publishers only work […]

Local news publishers aren’t waiting around for ad tech vendors to solve their third-party cookie problems for them. In late March, the Local Media Consortium (LMC) launched NewsPassID, a single sign-on solution and ad network, designed to help the 5,000 local publishers represented by the LMC to aggregate their first-party data and clean up their […]

Snap wants investors to know that monetization is and will continue to be a top priority. At the company’s first investor day event on Tuesday, executives emphasized Snap’s focus on investing in its ad stack, expanding into new international markets and growing its advertiser base, including small and local businesses. After revamping its self-serve ad […]

Newly public livestreaming TV service FuboTV hired its first SVP of ad sales in June. “That in itself speaks to the importance that we’re putting on the ad sales piece,” said Diana Horowitz, the Scripps and Comcast vet now filling that newly created role at Fubo. Fubo, which reported its first earnings in early November, […]

Facebook and Twitter both acknowledged this week that they’ll be taking revenue hits due to the coronavirus situation. These admissions aren’t surprising – but they are telling. Late Tuesday, Facebook said that its services are experiencing “unprecedented” growth and “new records in usage almost every day,” but that this isn’t translating into ad revenue gains. “Our […]