Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cannot Fulfill This Request Generative AI products continue to fail in obviously foreseeable ways. The latest: Amazon listings that appear to have used OpenAI’s ChatGPT to generate product names and descriptions feature an identical error message, The Verge reports. Who doesn’t want to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ghosts In The Machine The rise of machine-learning-powered ad products from Google and Meta is changing the performance marketer’s job from a hybrid creative tactician, media hound and command pilot to, well, someone who just feeds data, text prompts and raw creative assets […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Voyage Of Discovery Newspaper publisher Gannett is suing Google for alleged ad tech monopolization. Google, of course, disputes the charge. Dan Taylor, VP of Google Ads, tells The Wall Street Journal Google will “show the court how our advertising products benefit publishers […]
Microsoft’s purchase of Xandr from AT&T in late 2021 might have looked like an embrace of third-party ad tech. But while parts of the Xandr tech are considered valuable by Microsoft, the future of Xandr as an SSP integrated with thousands of outside publishers is in doubt.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Stores Of Value From regional chains to the largest department and grocery stores, seemingly every retailer is in the retail media network business. Retail ad spend forecasts have leapt to $25 billion and more. Except those numbers mostly track Amazon’s growth, plus a […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trade Punches In 2016, The Trade Desk cracked open the DSP market by sticking with agencies. DSPs such as Turn and TubeMogul attempted to go brand-direct but were dropped by agencies and AppNexus, the top dog DSP at the time, refashioned itself as […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. It Takes Two ACR data and ad analytics firm Samba TV’s media sales business is now in the hands of programmatic firm MiQ, Deadline reports. As part of the multiyear commercial partnership, MiQ will directly handle all of Samba’s former sales operations. Meanwhile, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Mobility Ability The retail media boom has spawned a subcategory of first-party data owners in the travel and hospitality vertical, and they’ve got their own terminology. When Uber formalized its new advertising group last October, for example, GM Mark Grether referred to […]
After a hiatus from ad tech, Brian O’Kelley is back with Scope3, a new startup to help ad tech companies reduce their carbon emissions. The cynical POV: He’s cleaning up the mess he helped make. It’s a fair criticism, O’Kelley says: “I take accountability for my role in this.”
This article is based on interviews with participants. Martin Kihn speaks to all the main players. It was inspired by Microsoft’s supposedly surprising selection as Netflix’s ad tech partner. But driven by the acquisition of AT&T’s Xandr, that’s just the latest chapter in a breathtaking adventure of pivots, write-downs, partnerships and potential.
