Shadier Than Forbes? Premium Publishers Are Partnering With Content Farms To Make A Quick Programmatic Buck
The practice involves monetizing resold subdomains jammed with recycled MFA articles produced by notorious content farms.
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BuzzFeed Still Sees AI As The Savior Of Its Slumping Ad Business
BuzzFeed took another lap around its AI-related talking points as its advertising business took another lap around the drain.
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Life, Or Something Like It; Buyers Bet On Upfront Week
In today’s newsletter: Companies looking to sell data target the US market; which media companies to bet on at TV upfronts; and generative AI data licensing is the new publisher revenue stream.
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IAS Had A Better Q1 Than DV, But That Doesn’t Mean There Aren’t Elephants In The Room
Integral Ad Science had a decent Q1 – especially in comparison to its direct competitor, DoubleVerify. Even so, frustration with the opacity of third-party brand safety and ad verification providers is increasingly bubbling to the surface.
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Comic: Enough With The Pearl Clutching
Enjoy this weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem …
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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.
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Dotdash Meredith Looks To AI Partnerships To Protect Its Search Traffic
Dotdash Meredith previewed plans for how its OpenAI partnership could provide incremental traffic and scale its contextual targeting capabilities across a wider network of sites and media types.
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User Agents Or Double Agents?; Agencies, The Agents Of Arbitrage
In today’s newsletter: The “user agent” concept is dead; principal-based buying is just arbitrage by another name; and a deep dive into BuzzFeed’s doomed acquisition of Complex.
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Reddit’s First-Ever Earnings Call Centers On Success In Search
Advertising accounted for $222.7 million, up 39% YOY. CEO Steve Huffman attributed this growth to a boost in search traffic from Google.
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OPINION: On TV & VideoFixing CTV Ad Repetition Means Understanding How Ad Tech Enables It
Multiple factors such as buy-side practices, the CTV industry structure and shortcomings in ad tech contribute to CTV’s ad frequency problem. Yet there are several ways to overcome these limitations.
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Why Vodafone Is Giving Out Grades For Its Creative
One way to get a handle on your brand creative is to, well, grade your homework, according to Anne Stilling, Vodafone’s global director of brands and media.
Inside The Fall Of Oracle’s Advertising Business
By now, the industry is well aware that Oracle, once the most prominent advertising data seller in market, will shut down its advertising division. What’s behind the ignominious end of Oracle Advertising?
Criteo: The Privacy Sandbox Is NOT Ready Yet, But Could Be If Google Makes Certain Changes Soon
If Google were to shut off third-party cookies today and implement the current version of the Privacy Sandbox, publishers would see their ad revenue on Chrome tank by around 60% on average.
Platforms Are Autogenerating Creative – And It’s Going To Be Terrible
This week, we’re diving into the most important thing in advertising – the actual creative – and how major ad platforms are well on their way to an era of creative innovation. Actually, strike that. I meant creative desolation.
Disney Expands Its Audience Graph And Clean Room Tech Beyond The US
Disney expands its audience graph and clean room tech to Latin America, marking the first time it will be available outside the US. The announcement precedes this week’s launch of Disney+ with ads in Latin America.
Advertible Makes Its Case To SSPs For Running Native Channel Extensions
Companies like TripleLift that created the programmatic native category are now in their awkward tween years. Cue Advertible, a “native-as-a-service” programmatic vendor, as put by co-founder and CEO Tom Anderson.