Audio advertising is maturing (or going through puberty?): Spotify is the latest platform to weather a content controversy (over Joe Rogan’s misinformation). Meanwhile, competitor SiriusXM is building first-party identifiers. Plus: the quiet Olympics, and why B2B advertisers love the Super Bowl.
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Last week, Google cracked open its black box to divulge its take rates across its buying platforms DV360 and Google Ads, as well as for its publisher tech Google Ad Manager. This week on The Big Story, we’re going to take a look at those fees, including what they mean, what we know and, most […]
What do people do when they’re mostly stuck at home? They stream, they game and they eat pizza. Papa John’s saw double-digit growth in June, with sales up 24% year over year in North America and 5% internationally amid the ongoing pandemic. In order to deliver that growth, Papa John’s had to, you know, literally […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Facebook Unfriend How at-risk is Facebook, really, from the flurry of brands suspending ad campaigns? Facebook has weathered worse. Its market cap plummeted $43 billion in one day in 2018, after reports of the Cambridge Analytica data violations, but bounced back within two […]
More big names are joining the Facebook ad boycott, including Unilever, Verizon and Honda, and Mark Zuckerberg is doing damage control. On Friday, Zuck went live on his Facebook page to outline how Facebook is preparing for the 2020 presidential election, cracking down on voter suppression and trying to regulate hate speech on its platform. […]
Brands are getting involved as civil rights and activist groups pressure Facebook to stop the spread of misinformation and hate on its platform. Last week, REI, The North Face and Patagonia said they would suspend their ad spend on the platform for the month of July as part of the Stop Hate For Profit campaign, […]
