Ad Tech
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Online Advertising
A Google Ads Glitch Likely Triggered A Data Breach Within Google Merchant Center
Call it a major GMC oopsey. Google Merchant Center (GMC), Google’s hub for commerce advertising and analytics, has been accidentally cross-pollinating data – including unencrypted customer and product info – between accounts on the platform going back at least two weeks, according to three ecommerce consultants and ad agency execs who each manage numerous GMC […]
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The Big Story
The Looming Question Of Cookie Consent
Here’s the old news: Chrome cookies are (eventually) going away. Here’s the new news: Only some cookies are going away. Google Chrome is proposing an “approach that elevates user choice,” which will undoubtedly mean more opt-outs. But will the opt-out rate be half? Two-thirds? 10%? 90%? For the past week or so, we’ve been so […]
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CTV Roundup
Why Toyota’s Olympics Exit Opens Up The Games For Hyundai
Hyundai returns to the Olympics as a national advertiser and the presenting sponsor of the USA women’s soccer team – with a new ad campaign to show for it.
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Online Advertising
Outbrain Acquires Teads From Altice For $1 Billion
Native ad platform Outbrain will acquire Teads, an SSP and video monetization company owned by European telco Altice. The acquisition ends advanced talks, first reported in July, between the two companies.
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Marketers
DoubleVerify Breaks The Moat And Storms The Social Castle
What do Pepsi, Ulta Beauty and AB InBev have in common? A year ago, they were Moat clients. Now they’re in DoubleVerify’s camp. “It’s always an interesting dynamic when a competitor just literally drops off the map the way Oracle did with Moat,” DoubleVerify CEO Mark Zagorski told investors during the company’s earnings call on […]
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Online Advertising
Innovid Wants To Solve CTV’s Most Annoying Issue
TV measurement platform Innovid has a new frequency management product that manages frequency caps across connected TV, mobile and desktop, including display and audio.
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Marketers
Vendors Like RTB House And Raptive Bought Into The Privacy Sandbox. Do They Feel Burned?
Google sent the online ad ecosystem reeling a week ago with the news that, upon reflection, third-party cookies will not be deprecated for the entire browser. But what about the ad tech vendor partners that committed serious energy and resources to test Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox proposals? Vendors like Criteo, RTB House, Raptive and MiQ placed […]
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Online Advertising
Google Says It’s Still Figuring Out How A Cookie Opt-In Model Will Work
Google is still figuring out what a cookie opt-in or opt-out model would look like — and how it would affect development and adoption for the Chrome Privacy Sandbox.
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Data-Driven Thinking
The Cookie Conundrum Proves Google Couldn’t Collaborate In The Sandbox
After years of delayed deadlines, Google has finally put third-party cookie deprecation to rest. Last Monday’s announcement begets a slew of industry questions about the implementation and impact of Google’s proposal for the user opt-in mechanism, and only time will tell when they will be answered. One thing is clear, however: Google is acknowledging its […]
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CTV Roundup
CTV Is One Of The Fastest-Growing Channels On Viant’s Platform – But There’s Still Value In Linear
I recently caught up with Viant co-founders Tim (CEO) and Chris (COO) Vanderhook – or, as I like to think of them, The Brothers Vanderhook – to get an update on their business. During Q1 this year, Viant reported that streaming audio and CTV combined represented more than half of the total ad spend on […]
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