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A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

This week saw a big flex from LiveRamp, which a few days ago reported its first profitable quarter since it spun off from Acxiom. All very cool, especially when you consider that this measured success happened during a global pandemic when the rest of the digital advertising community – and, really, the rest of the […]

Ad tech companies are starting to make their voices heard at the W3C as the clock ticks down on third-party cookies in Chrome. At an Aug. 6 meeting of the W3C’s Advisory Board – the closest thing the W3C has to a board of directors – a handful of ad tech companies, agencies and data […]

The Trade Desk’s stock was up nearly 5% in after-hour’s trading on Thursday, despite posting a 13% year-over-over dip in revenue in the second quarter. To what does TTD owe this optimism? Two words: connected TV. “We believe that the COVID pandemic has permanently accelerated the growth of CTV,” CEO Jeff Green told investors on […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Let Us Track A who’s-who of industry trade groups, advertisers, ad tech companies, agencies and publishers has banded together to form the Partnership for Responsible Addressable Media. The group wants to preserve methods of targeting and measuring consumers, which browsers and platforms have been […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Microsoft Returns?  Microsoft has been in talks to acquire TikTok from its Chinese parent company ByteDance, The New York Times reported Friday. And then those talks were placed on hold after President Trump signalled opposition, The Wall Street Journal reported. Regardless of outcome, the […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rob Rasko, founder and CEO at The 614 Group. It’s hard not to look at 2020 as annus horribilis, if I may quote the Queen. We all entered the new year very much aware that our […]

Keith Eadie, VP and GM of Adobe Advertising Cloud and head of product for Adobe Analytics, is a man confident enough to cut his own hair. His wife takes care of the back and the sides, and then “it’s my own doing on top,” Keith jokes from his garage (aka home office). “It’s a little […]

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

In January, Google Chrome said it would phase out third-party cookies over the next two years. No problem, right? The W3C, which creates common standards for web browsers, will figure out an alternative. Except, man, it’s certainly taking its sweet time. Two years might sound like ages but it’s not, when you consider how foundational […]