Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ring Airer Netflix is paying more than $5 billion for the rights to livestream “WWE Raw,” Variety reports. The 10-year deal is effective starting next January and represents Netflix’s biggest push into live content. Following a live sports debut with its “Netflix Cup” […]
Armed with Ads.txt and Sellers.json files, Nandini Jammi, co-founder of Check My Ads Institute, spends her days exposing how money flows through the twisted pipes of the programmatic supply chain. Her goal? To defund disinformation, toxic content and hate online.
After a hiatus from ad tech, Brian O’Kelley is back with Scope3, a new startup to help ad tech companies reduce their carbon emissions. The cynical POV: He’s cleaning up the mess he helped make. It’s a fair criticism, O’Kelley says: “I take accountability for my role in this.”
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Baby Steps Babylist began as a registry to combine a gift registry and services (like helping new parents by arranging dog walks) with an affiliate revenue model. Although the approach worked well, 85% of Babylist’s sales went to a single retail partner, CEO […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Defunding Disinfo Is defunding disinformation the open web’s biggest challenge? The ad tech consultancy/watchdog Check My Ads made that case at SXSW last week, Fast Company reports. According to the group’s founders, the disinformation crisis is solvable but will require ad exchanges to […]
Marketers have become increasingly conservative in their quest for brand safety. They’ve gone from blocking ads next to content that supports terrorism – such as ISIS beheading videos in 2017 – to shying away from content that simply makes them feel uncomfortable. In recent months, that’s meant blocking essential news about the coronavirus pandemic and […]
