Ad Tech
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Data-Driven Thinking
Seeing Through The Smoke And Mirrors: Transparency In The AI Age
Transparency has become the currency of credibility in advertising. As clients demand more outcomes-based accountability, agencies, media companies and online platforms promise more transparency. But how much of this is empty rhetoric and how much of it is an earnest commitment? For those folks who think clients are bluffing, I would advise waking up to […]
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Online Advertising
The Possible Show: Can It Possibly Be A Tentpole Already?
The dramatic art-filled lobby of Miami’s Hotel Fontainebleau was overtaken by the trappings of ad tech this week for the third-annual Possible conference, a show that has rapidly established itself as an influential industry event.
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Data-Driven Thinking
AI Is Everywhere, But Where Is It Really Adding Value?
Angelina Eng will be speaking at Programmatic IO in Las Vegas from May 19-21. Click here to register. AI has taken over the ad and media industry conversation. It’s in the room, the road map, the pitch, the QBR. If your company hasn’t mentioned AI in the last 48 hours, check for a pulse. But […]
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Online Advertising
As CTV Blooms, It’s Knives Out For The Trade Desk’s Take Rate
The Trade Desk’s (TTD) take rate has been one of the most sensitive topics in programmatic advertising for the past decade. From 2017 to the present, its take rate has hovered between 19% to 21%, a number The Trade Desk reports annually. Shortly after The Trade Desk’s IPO, founder and CEO Jeff Green told AdExchanger […]
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Marketers
How Shutterfly Used A Search-Powered Custom Algorithm To Zoom In On New Customers
Everyone in programmatic knows that the best way to drive outcomes is to use some kind of identifier … right? But a CTV campaign Shutterfly ran at the end of last year to promote its holiday gift packages and photo deals challenges that perception. Shutterfly’s goal was to uncover new pools of potential customers to […]
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Online Advertising
Q1: Google’s Earnings Are Up, AI Is Growing – And All Controversies Are Neatly Ignored
Alphabet executives spent the company’s Q1 earnings call on Thursday evening hyping AI and dodging questions about the landmark antitrust ruling against Google last week, declaring it an illegal monopolist in the online advertising market. Just kidding. Neither the ad tech antitrust case against Google nor the search antitrust case – a hearing over remedies […]
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CTV Roundup
EDO CEO Kevin Krim Has Hot Takes On AI For Programmatic CTV
Outcomes measurement company EDO is no stranger to large data sets. So I sat down with Kevin in March to learn how he thinks AI will continue to transform programmatic CTV advertising.
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Marketers
Comcast Might Be Losing Revenue, But Not NBCU’s Peacock
Parts of Comcast might be struggling, but the company still feels “well positioned” in advance of the TV upfronts in May, according to Chief Financial Officer Jason Armstrong. Comcast has confidence in “a healthy Peacock subscriber base” and strong content across entertainment and news, Armstrong told investors during the company’s quarterly earnings report on Wednesday. […]
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The Big Story
The Ad Tech Verdict On Google And Third-Party Cookies
Google’s SSP and ad server businesses have been ruled monopolies. And Google Chrome isn’t going to change its third-party cookie opt-ins, further preserving third-party cookies. Go inside this momentous news.
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Online Advertising
The FTC’s New Consumer Protection Chief Plans To Be Objective About Targeted Advertising
Back in 2022, the term “surveillance advertising” became common parlance at the Federal Trade Commission. But you won’t catch any of the current commissioners or key staff invoking that term anymore. Using pejorative labels, like “surveillance advertising,” for example, “does nothing to help us understand the practice,” said Christopher Mufarrige, the newly appointed director of […]
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