U of Digital Newsletter: March 26, 2025 (free)
Oracle’s Role in TikTok’s Future Gets Capitol Hill Scrutiny - TikTok has until April 5th (10 more days) to find a buyer in the US or face a ban.
Oracle’s Role in TikTok’s Future Gets Capitol Hill Scrutiny - TikTok has until April 5th (10 more days) to find a buyer in the US or face a ban.
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It's Google’s third delay in its effort to sunset cookies. Bowing to pressure from all sides, Google said yesterday that it won't be able to fully deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome until early 2025 at the earliest, rather than the second...
Mark Zuckerberg testified Monday and Tuesday in what could be the most consequential threat to Meta's business empire in its 21-year history.
Google blew through its witnesses relatively quickly, rested its case, and then the DOJ rebutted with a final publisher witness. The entire case lasted only three weeks, much shorter than the four to six weeks initially expected.
In a bid to drum up more business from small publishers, supply-side platform (SSP) Sovrn is offering flat CPM pricing based on how many impressions a publisher auctions programmatically through Sovrn’s header bidding tool called “Ad Management”.
The streaming audio giant is going after more ad spend by making it easier for advertisers of all sizes to buy its inventory programmatically, beginning with video ads before expanding to audio ads soon.
The traffic apocalypse is no longer theoretical. Google's AI Overviews (AKA Google Zero) have exploded to over 2 billion monthly users🔒, up from 1.5B last quarter, and they're devastating publisher traffic.
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Become a digital advertising data master. This course explores targeting techniques used in digital advertising to help advertisers optimize towards their campaign goals while reducing waste. We'll explore the different types of ad targeting, then dive into the technology...
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Habu's interoperable data clean room tech allows companies to share and match their first-party data in a privacy-safe way. The platform is integrated with a bunch of companies, clouds, and platforms, including Google Cloud, Google Display & Video 360, Microsoft Azure, AWS Clean...
More Q4 EarningsWarner Bros. Discovery (👎): Q4 revenue was down 7% to $10.28B, missing estimates. Linear TV advertising fell 14%, but WBD became the first Hollywood conglomerate to have a profitable streaming unit, with Max delivering $103M in 2023 profits.Streaming subscribers reached 97.7M....
After much speculation last week, Walmart has made its move on Vizio. The acquisition would give Walmart Vizio’s SmartCast operating system—which has grown 400% since 2018 to 18M active accounts—and all the data those accounts generate.
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The recorded version of this event is available here. Big changes might be looming for digital media. TikTok faces a possible ban in the United States and Google is fighting off regulators who want to break it up. 😬 In the...
Mark Read will exit his role as WPP's chief executive by December, ending a seven-year run that saw the British agency holding company lose its crown as the industry's revenue leader.
The Trade Desk will buy programmatic metadata startup Sincera for an undisclosed price tag. Launched in 2022, Sincera will continue to operate independently, according to Sincera CEO Mike O’Sullivan, providing advertisers, publishers, and ad tech vendors with data from the...
Customers of The Trade Desk, the industry's largest independent demand-side platform (DSP), will be able to target Roku's audiences and buy Roku inventory through private deals.
TV has undergone rapid change in the last few years, with new platforms, new rules—and an entirely new language.
Criteo's testing of Google's Privacy Sandbox found that publishers would lose 60% of their revenue on average in Chrome if third-party cookies were deprecated today.
CES 2024 kicks off with the rapidly expanding impact of AI on media and marketing front and center - The 2024 conference season officially got underway this week with the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
View the recording from U of Digital's Live Learning Event on 26 July 2024 and download the deck that explains Google's latest announcement that third-party cookies will not be deprecated.