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Innovid added a new machine learning feature to its measurement product that automatically optimizes CTV campaigns based on how they’re performing.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Nessie Lives The FTC is accusing Amazon of using Project Nessie, a secret algorithm, to fix prices in its favor and monopolize the retail market, Ars Technica reports. Amazon matched discount prices from rivals, spurring other retailers to slash their prices, too. This […]

Bryan Gildenberg of The CPG Guys, a brand and retail industry podcast with about 24,000 LinkedIn followers, talks Amazon, Instacart and product discovery.

On Monday, PMG acquired Camelot, an independent media and marketing agency that specializes in buying video, OTT and CTV. This acquisition marks PMG’s first since its founding 13 years ago.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Apple’s Bite Apple will now let paid subscription apps (think The Economist or meditation app Calm) offer audio content exclusively for their subscribers, a trendy tactic in Podcast Land. Spotify has a similar idea, but it partners with the subscription service Patreon. And […]

It may look as if there hasn’t been much progress with alternative currencies – at least not commensurate with the hype. Just because alt currencies didn’t take over the upfronts this year doesn’t mean there hasn’t been movement.

The widening “trust gap” between consumers and the ad industry is enough to make a chief privacy officer quit. So Arielle Garcia did. She explains why.

Digital media and television have been playing by different sets of rules due to the nature of ad delivery and tracking. But these worlds are slowly colliding.

Media mix modeling is back in fashion. Meta, Amazon and Google are finding ways for marketers to measure the effectiveness of their entire advertising spend. Should we trust them?

Samantha Bukowski, who leads GroupM Nexus Commerce as global head of commerce, talks social commerce, retail media, AI and how all media has become performance media.

The three largest walled garden advertising platforms are investing in new measurement solutions, namely media mix modeling ­– even if it means giving credit to their competitors for driving conversions.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Email Spreads Its Feathers Ultra-trendy CTV networks are turning to an old-school method for retaining users: email marketing. NBCU’s Peacock is using good-old-fashioned email blasts to reduce churn and increase viewership, Marketing Brew reports. Free and paid subscribers receive three to five emails […]

Publicis Groupe Chief Commerce Strategy Officer Jason Goldberg talks commerce trends, how he got into commerce and his podcast, “The Jason & Scot Show.”

Historically, there’s been no easy way to do all that at the account level in a DSP because a DSP’s main reason for being is to find the lowest-cost media and audiences possible for its advertisers.

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How will gen-AI content resonate – or not – with consumers? That’s the big question, according to Todd Hassenfelt, Colgate-Palmolive’s ecommerce director.

Magnite’s still enamored of CTV. CTV’s contribution to Magnite’s revenue was up 8% YOY, from $52 million to $56 million.

Though some early media coverage of the program suggested participants will get greater access to Roblox-provided data, that’s not actually the case. But partners will get a direct line to Roblox personnel for support.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Slow Slide WPP reported lackluster Q2 results during its earnings call on Friday.  The agency holding company saw a “shortfall” in the US, accounting for about 37% of WPP’s biz, which “took us a little bit by surprise,” CEO Mark Read told […]

Folgers used TikTok’s click-to-buy video overlays and Gopuff’s quick delivery platform to deliver Folgers products to Gen Z shoppers.

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On Tuesday, PubMatic entered the crowded retail media space with the launch of a self-service ad platform for commerce media called Convert.

Political advertising restrictions are among the challenges that direct marketing agency MissionWired helps its progressive nonprofits and political campaign clients tackle.

Organic revenue growth for IPG sank 1.7% YOY, with a 2.5% drop in the US. The holding company said a weakened tech sector is partly to blame.

Agency holding company Omnicom’s going all in on generative AI – a topic that dominated its earnings call Tuesday.

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The programmatic digital out-of-home (DOOH) market has been growing at a steady clip, and ad buyers are now looking at media quality metrics beyond audience reach and impressions. But assessing the quality of physical screens across a variety of real-world locations requires new mechanisms. To encourage more brands to enter the channel, programmatic DOOH platforms […]

Bank-Erupted The private equity firm and empty LLCs schlepping MediaMath through its bankruptcy process face a new class-action suit brought by former employees over alleged labor violations. Justin Adler-Swanberg, until recently MediaMath’s director of product strategy in charge of marketplace quality and compliance, is the named plaintiff. The filing says roughly 200 MediaMath employees who […]

The company’s immediate plans for reinvesting its new capital include hiring more executive leadership to spearhead sales and partnerships, growing its engineering team and expanding its presence in the US and Japan.