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Marketecture Buys AdTechGod (No, Really)
Only in advertising is God himself up for sale. On Wednesday, the ad tech information resource business Marketecture announced it had acquired AdTechGod, an anonymous ad tech Twitter poster turned one-man content studio, and The AdTech Forum, an information resource hosted by AdTechGod and Jeremy Bloom, founder and CEO of the advertising and technology career […]
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Meet The New Media Consultants Thriving Despite Disruption And Macroeconomic Woe
It’s been a tough couple of years for people working in media and marketing, including mass layoffs and uncertainty about the future of ad tech. But while these changes have been difficult for those involved, they’ve also created fertile territory for individual consultants with in-demand expertise. These are people who either left their jobs or […]
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Adalytics Claims Colossus SSP Is Misdeclaring IDs In Its Bid Requests
Call it another colossal error in the long history of ad tech spoofing. Colossus SSP, a DEI-focused supply-side platform owned by Direct Digital Holdings (DDH), is the subject of Adalytics’ latest report released Friday. Through matching data logs and the Chrome developer toolkit, it documented the SSP repeatedly misrepresenting IDs in openRTB fields. What’s more, […]
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The Trade Desk Reframes Its Open Internet Vision As ‘The Premium Internet’
The Trade Desk delivered another smash earnings report. What’s new? The company’s total revenue in Q1 was $491 million, a 28% increase from last year, and net income (i.e., profit) jumped from $9 million in Q1 2023 to $32 million this quarter. Consistent revenue growth and profit has become the norm for TTD, which reported […]
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Why Privacy Sandbox Testers Are Relieved Google Delayed The Cookie’s Demise
Google gave third-party cookies yet another stay of execution. And the digital ad industry is not shocked. For companies that have been testing Google’s cookie alternative, the Chrome Privacy Sandbox, another delay was starting to feel inevitable, even before Google shifted its deprecation deadline Tuesday to an undisclosed date “early next year,” citing “ongoing challenges…reconciling […]
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Google’s Ad Network Biz Dips, But Search Brings Home The Bacon
By next year, Google will have three separate business lines – Search, YouTube and Cloud – that each generate roughly twelve digits per year. That’s around $100 billion apiece. To put this into perspective, it took 15 years for Google to grow into a $100 billion per-year business – and just six years to triple its […]
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Cookie-Related Quips To Get You Through Google’s THIRD Third-Party Cookie Delay
Third-party cookies: Can’t live with ‘em, can’t seem to get rid of ‘em. Earlier this week, Google delayed third-party cookie deprecation in Chrome for the third time. The end of third-party cookies will now happen in 2025, likely towards the beginning of the year. The exact timing is TBD. 🤯 😮 😱 Not really. The […]
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The Countdown For TikTok Begins. What’s Next For Marketers And Media Buyers?
President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that will ban TikTok from US app stores unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, sells the platform within a year. We asked the experts what marketers and media buyers should do to prepare for the possible ban.
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The IAB Predicts Social Video Will Overtake CTV This Year
The IAB projects digital video ad spend will rise to $63 billion in 2024, representing a 16% increase from last year. Of the three video ad categories the report breaks out (social and online video and CTV), the clear winner is social video.
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Google Won’t Pull Cookies In 2024
Google announces it’s delaying its self-imposed deadline to deprecate third-party cookies on Chrome for the third time.
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