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  • Kochava And The FTC Head Back To Court; Troubles Abound For GroupM

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Location, Location, Location The FTC’s consumer privacy case against Kochava is back on the docket. Last year, the consumer watchdog accused the mobile app analytics platform of selling users’ geolocation data in an open market. However, the presiding judge threw out the FTC’s […]

  • Google AdSense Changes Publisher Payouts; The Costs (And Gains) Of Generative AI

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Making An Impression Starting early next year, Google AdSense publishers will see their payouts switch from a per click metric to per impression, the first change to its revenue sharing model in 20 years.  Paying per impression is the industry standard for how […]

  • Comic: The Wrong Side Of The Tracks

    Google And Apple Lay Their Attribution Plans; The Holdco Holdup

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Whoever Attributes, Wins When people refer to the control that Apple and Google exert over the mobile ecosystem, they usually focus on onerous app store fees. Which, okay, fair enough. But “there’s a looming, more subtle, and much more esoteric form of control […]

  • Comic: PII Shop

    Journos On Wall Street; IP Address Deprecation Means More Disruption

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Church And Stock News publishers have had some business model challenges lately. That’s not news to anyone.  But one startup hopes to avoid the news industry’s advertiser drop-off and subscription malaise.  The startup, called Hunterbrook, will commission news stories from journalists, while an […]

  • A Recipe To Cut SEO Crap; Who Dedupes The Dedupers?

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cook The Books Google is warning recipe bloggers to post pertinent information (which is to say, the ingredients and recipe) in visible, accessible parts of their site or risk being down-ranked in search results.  “To me, this seems like some sort of warning […]

  • GroupM North America Says Goodbye To Kirk McDonald; Meta’s Gambit Pays Off

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Heads Will Roll CEO Kirk McDonald is out at GroupM North America, Insider reports. WPP’s revenue growth tumbled in the US this year, which the company blamed on tech clients curtailing their ad spend. GroupM North America has fared particularly poorly, putting GroupM, […]

  • Performance Max Adds Search Themes; BuzzFeed Selling Complex Illustrates Digital Media Woes

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Variation On A Theme Google launched a new Performance Max search feature called “search themes,” a rare opportunity to learn from the black box that is PMax campaigns. Search themes are broad terms that can inform targeting, even if the company doesn’t bid […]

  • Comic: Cookies n' Chrome

    Only The CMA Can Kill The Cookie; AMC Makes Linear TV More Programmatic

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Another Cookie Delay? The third-party cookie might receive another stay of execution – and this time it wouldn’t be Google pushing the deadline. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) reiterated that Google won’t be allowed to kill cookies next year unless the […]

  • Amazon UnBoxes Its Latest Ads Tools; TV’s Ad Viewability Problem

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Help Me, Help Me Amazon announced ad platform upgrades at its annual UnBoxed conference, just ahead of quarterly earnings today. Like Google, Amazon is now a content fortress with its own cloud, which means that when it makes ad tech updates, the result […]

  • Chrome Joins The Private Relay Race; Did Snapchat Miss Its Shot?

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Mis-Addressed Google Chrome will reintroduce a way to disable tracking by IP address by giving users a toggle to block IP tracking. If that sounds familiar, it’s because the product works not unlike Apple’s Private Relay – and will have a similar impact on […]

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Alphonso Shareholders Win Their Suit Against LG Electronics Over Corporate Board Drama

After being summarily booted from the board of LG Ads in late 2022, Alphonso’s founding team has won its lawsuit against LG Electronics.

Bye-Bye Sizmek! Amazon Advances Flashtalking And Smartly As Alternatives In Advance Of The Shutdown

According to emails seen by AdExchanger that were sent to Amazon customers this week, Amazon is officially naming integration partners to offload clients of the Sizmek ad suite, now the Amazon Ad Server.

2024 Promises More Premium Inventory – And Bigger Budgets – For In-Game Ads

Given the deprecation of third-party cookies and the reemergence of contextual targeting, 2024 could be a big year for in-game ads – so long as game publishers position themselves as a source of premium inventory.

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AdExchanger’s Top 3 Connected TV Newsletter Issues Of 2023

This was such a busy year in CTV land that we had to launch a dedicated newsletter just to keep up with all the trends, from measurement, currency, targeting and attribution to streaming data, identity, supply-path optimization and new ad formats – just to name a few.

M&A 2023: Ad Tech Deals Were Muted, But That Could Be A Mark Of Maturity

Who got bought in 2023, and who did the buying? Here’s a non-exhaustive list of some of the most notable ad tech M&A activity from this past year (with a few media and agency deals tossed in for good measure).

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Snowflake Acquires Data Clean Room Startup Samooha

Snowflake has acquired Samooha, a startup that develops software to make clean room technology accessible to marketers who aren’t necessarily SQL wizards or data scientists.