Ad revenue in the US is set to grow in 2024. So pour one out for 2023 – and try not to make the same mistake as last year. Despite a more-than-decent ad market in 2023, media executives nearly manifested a recession out of fear that one was coming, according to professional advertising prognosticator Brian Wieser.
The strategy behind agency holding company reorgs makes sense: consolidation of related assets under one roof. But simply merging creative agencies doesn’t solve the bigger client need, which is bringing creative and media closer together, says Jellyfish CEO Nick Emery.
On its Q4 earning call this week, Criteo announced the start of a three-year global partnership with GroupM, shared an update on the IPONWEB deal, got frank about the privacy impacts of ATT and made the case for moving away from a focus on take rate.
Now that the drama has died down around the merger process between The Stagwell Group and MDC Partners – the two finally became one in August – Stagwell, as the new entity is being called, has its eye on cracking into media. The Stagwell Media Network was born in August as the combination of eight agencies in […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Searching For Something? Breaking into the search engine category is hard, borderline impossible. But one familiar name is taking a new approach. Sridhar Ramaswamy, Google’s former SVP of ads and commerce, co-founded a search engine called Neeva that doesn’t collect user data or sell […]
