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Every week, we publish an original comic inspired by trends in the online advertising industry. These are the stories – and the puns – behind AdExchanger’s top 10 comics of the year.

By this time next year, advertisers will need to have already put their post-cookie campaign strategies in place. Did advertisers and ad tech companies use the extra time they had thanks to multiple deadline delays wisely or did they procrastinate?

if programmatic audio keeps chugging along in its growth, it could make up a sizable share of audio in a few years’ time.

We’ve spent enough time and spilled more than enough ink this year talking and writing about Big Tech privacy fines, enforcement actions and the unutterably slow phaseout of third-party cookies in Chrome. So rather than rounding up the obvious online privacy trends of 2023, let’s dive into the weeds.

2023 saw SPO become further cemented in the strategies of DSPs and SSPs for capturing market share. But the long-term trend might see SPO become the default for programmatic advertisers.

In 2023, supply-path optimization took off, brands took their scalpels to made-for-advertising websites and DSPs and SSPs launched SPO products to cut down on hops. Plus: lessons from the year in data privacy.

Three themes dominated our coverage this year: consolidation, transparency and measurement.

Publisher frustrations with the algorithm-driven internet are boiling over – and the rise of generative AI-powered search, which rarely links to the stories it scrapes, will cause irreparable damage.

Welcome to Scandi-Land, where the cookieless future has been our online media reality for the last five years. Here are three lessons for media planners, buyers, sellers and platforms who are going to have a tough time navigating the thicket of change.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bean Counter A split between two state privacy laws in Maine shows how more data-driven businesses – not just Silicon Valley giants – are invested in the nuances of privacy standards and how consumer data can be used (or not). Lobbyists at the […]