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Danielle Coffey, CEO and president of the News/Media Alliance, believes journalism and generative AI can play nice. But first, gen-AI companies must get real about the value journalism brings to their products.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Board Games The LG Ads board of directors has three new members. Or, more accurately, two previous board members – Alphonso co-founders Ashish Chordia and Lampros Kalampoukas, who were fired as part of an orchestrated corporate coup in late December 2022 – have […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. When Ad Dependence Is Independence Buried in a worthwhile Economist longread about mainstream news and The New York Times struggling to balance revenue needs with journalistic standards is an interesting nugget about the value of an ad-based business versus one that relies on […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Not Buying It There’s been a burst of reports about new subscription-based, ad-free social media products. (Looking at you, Facebook.) It’s easy for these announcements to get caught up in trends like the pivot to subscriptions or revenue diversification.  But it is not […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rage Against The ML Google and Meta are all-in on machine-learning-based ad products that assign creative and optimization controls to the platform. But tools like Google’s Performance Max and Meta’s Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns have been rushed onstage – and they’re not ready for […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Begun, The Clone War Has The robots are taking over, and publishers are fighting back. A growing list of media outlets are attempting to stop AI bots from copying their content, CNN reports. Last week, The New York Times, Reuters and CNN led […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Cost Of Ad-Free(dom) Streaming is getting a lot more expensive. The average cost for major ad-free streaming services has risen nearly 25% over the past year, The Wall Street Journal reports. Case in point: Disney is hiking prices for its ad-free services […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Labels Amazon is dropping a large portion of its private-label products: 27 of its 30 clothing lines will soon be gone, The Wall Street Journal reports. On the one hand, who cares? It’s not like anybody notices the Amazon private labels. “Oh […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Slow Slide WPP reported lackluster Q2 results during its earnings call on Friday.  The agency holding company saw a “shortfall” in the US, accounting for about 37% of WPP’s biz, which “took us a little bit by surprise,” CEO Mark Read told […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Do We Ever Not Kick The Can? After Google Chrome first committed to third-party cookie deprecation, big advertisers and Google partners frankly didn’t expect the initial deadlines to remain. Google Ads and Chrome weren’t ready, not to mention needing the UK data regulator’s […]