Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pod One Out Podcast advertising is in a tough spot. Although ad sellers are cautiously optimistic about 2024, as more listeners tune in and programmatic audio grows (albeit slowly), podcast advertising overall has been stuck in first gear for years, Digiday reports. What […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Can You Hear Me Now? Consumers wary about targeted ads are convinced their devices are eavesdropping on their conversations. Most marketers insist that’s not the case, and their use of other targeting signals has gotten so sophisticated that it just feels like your […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Nessie Lives The FTC is accusing Amazon of using Project Nessie, a secret algorithm, to fix prices in its favor and monopolize the retail market, Ars Technica reports. Amazon matched discount prices from rivals, spurring other retailers to slash their prices, too. This […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Snap Decision All sorts of non-advertising companies have recently launched ad businesses – and vice versa. Companies that rely heavily on ad revenue, including Meta, Twitter and Snap, want to diversify their one-pillar businesses. But diversifying an ad business is much harder than the […]
Programmers like free ad-supported TV channels because they’re an onramp to bring more viewers into ad-supported video-on-demand environments.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Two Become One Viant may buy MediaMath, knitting together the pair of well-known DSPs, Digiday reports. MediaMath is an OG player that sprang up back in 2007 and was once valued at $1 billion. But it’s been on the market for a long […]
The latest weapon in the streaming wars is HBO’s “House of the Dragon.” But behind the glamour of this high-profile project, the bean counters are busy cutting costs, as streaming services rationalize after the pandemic. Plus: the lowdown on the latest privacy lawsuit against Oracle.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Née AppNexus AT&T is reportedly in a rush to offload Xandr because the company is “losing tens of millions” of dollars per year, Axios reports. Xandr, formerly AppNexus, has been “grossly mismanaged” by AT&T, and InMobi is in talks to pick up the company […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ahead Of The Game Facebook was the designated beneficiary earlier this week when Microsoft gave up on the video game streaming platform Mixer, diverting its traffic and accounts to Facebook Gaming. But the big winner here could be Twitch. Mixer lured popular streamers with […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Movie Night (On The Couch) TV networks hope nostalgia will win over home-bound viewers. NBCU launched a franchise last week called “Stay-In Theater,” simulcasting family movies across its family of networks. NBCU will cut national commercial time for the broadcast from 35 minutes to […]
