News Corp Earnings Illustrate The News Industry’s Ad Woes
The company’s total revenue was down 1% YOY due to a decline in ad revenue across its News Media and Dow Jones publishing groups.
The company’s total revenue was down 1% YOY due to a decline in ad revenue across its News Media and Dow Jones publishing groups.
To build a first-party data strategy, the NY Post contracted Permutive and Prohaska Consulting for advice on monetizing its audience data and growing its addressable audience. The collaboration prompted Permutive and Prohaska to expand their combined services to all publishers.
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 […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Layser Focused Stephanie Layser, former News Corp VP of ad tech, data and identity products, joined Amazon Web Services a year ago as global head of publisher ad tech solutions. And she just recorded a podcast with Marketecture about what she’s been up […]
A lot of ink has been spilled about the value of a publisher’s first-party data, but publishers can’t effectively monetize their data programmatically if they don’t have a standardized way to categorize it. On Monday, ArcSpan released Contextual APP, a data processing tool that enables publishers to structure their first-party contextual data into salable audience segments, including seller-defined audiences, using the IAB Tech Lab’s content and audience taxonomies.
The IAB Tech Lab’s seller-defined audience (SDA) spec is touted as a key contextual targeting alternative for the post-third-party-cookie digital ad ecosystem – one predicated on privacy-friendly addressability and publisher first-party data monetization. Some publishers are enthusiastic about testing SDA campaigns in the run-up to Google’s 2023 deadline for the phaseout of third-party cookies in Chrome. There is growing concern, however, about a marked lack of advertiser interest in doing the same.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Compromise For Google Google’s reported offer to US regulators as a bid to avoid an antitrust suit was to spin off part of its ad business. But that news apparently landed with a thud. The Department of Justice is poised to move […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Get Connected The coveted prizes in programmatic right now are exclusive CTV contracts. In Cannes, the crème de la crème for handshakers and lunch-takers is Netflix. Google is meeting with Netflix there, Ad Age reports, and is an obvious choice as Netflix purportedly […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Movers And Shakers Did you feel that? There have been some seismic moves lately in Ad Tech Land – not even counting M&A or privacy rules. Stephanie Layser, longtime leader of News Corp.’s advertising technology, is taking her talents to the cloud. She […]
The Trade Desk recently made waves with the rollout of OpenPath, its direct-to-publisher offering, and its plan to turn off Google Open Bidding, a one-two punch in supply path optimization (SPO). Both of these SPO moves could reshuffle the ad buying ecosystem, making publishers less reliant on SSPs and cutting off a revenue source for Google’s Open Bidding.