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According to emails seen by AdExchanger that were sent to Amazon customers this week, Amazon is officially naming integration partners to offload clients of the Sizmek ad suite, now the Amazon Ad Server.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Amazon Prime(s) Its SSP Play Based on its job listings, Amazon is getting ready to launch a supply-side platform. The company has 11 open job listings on a “PubTech team” tasked with building “the new Amazon Ads Supply Side Platform,” Insider reports. The […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pubs Crawl Publishers are more selective about ad tech vendors nowadays after suffering through incidents involving sequential liability, Digiday reports. Publishers are more discerning about ad tech but don’t expect much to change following the MediaMath bankruptcy, like the Sizmek bankruptcy before that […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Audiences Worth Waiting For Criteo announced the “next phase of its integration with Shopify,” which is an update to its Shopify App Store. It’s not news that’ll set the world on fire, but Criteo maintains a drumbeat of Shopify integrations. Criteo’s Shopify merchant […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. General Admission Dollar General is one of many retail chains to launch an ad platform business. And the Dollar General Media Network (DGMN), as it’s known, just added a new partner last week: Meta. The Meta ad platform can now attribute sales to […]

With so much reliance on third parties in all of our businesses, it is important to remain appropriately skeptical and vet each company.

Ad tech saw almost 1,500 M&As between 2020 and 2021. So is this consolidation trend here to stay? It looks like it’s a resounding yes, writes Matthew Papa, SVP of business and corporate development at Captify.

Zeta Global has hoovered up a lot of ad tech over the last two years, acquiring Sizmek’s DSP, Rocket Fuel’s DMP, IgnitionOne’s DSPand PlaceIQ’s managed media business. The spree was a departure for the 12-year-old marketing cloud, traditionally known for its CRM and data solutions. How’s the rollup strategy working out? CEO David Steinberg joins […]

The list of failed DSPs is getting long: Sizmek. IgnitionOne. Eyeview. Audience Science. Each DSP left unpaid invoices to suppliers they went bankrupt or closed, forcing exchanges to eat the losses or claw back money it already gave to publishers. Now exchanges are getting tough about getting paid. Nearly one year post-Sizmek, BidSwitch, TripleLift, PubMatic, OpenX, […]