U of Digital Newsletter: April 9, 2025 (free)
WPP has acquired data clean room provider InfoSum, a move that was widely anticipated since current GroupM CEO Brian Lesser previously ran the company before joining WPP last July.
WPP has acquired data clean room provider InfoSum, a move that was widely anticipated since current GroupM CEO Brian Lesser previously ran the company before joining WPP last July.
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Digital Advertising Creativity kicked off Monday in the South of France, and we're seeing all kinds of interesting hookups.
The Information reported last week🔒 that Walmart renegotiated its deal with The Trade Desk and removed its exclusivity clause, which will let advertisers use Walmart's shopper data through other DSPs.
Macy's just became the first major retailer to partner with Amazon's Retail Ad Service, allowing Amazon to power sponsored product ads on Macy's website.
Takeover interest has inspired Integral Ad Science (IAS) to take a look at a possible sale. The brand safety and ad verification vendor has tapped Jefferies Financial Group to help it consider its options.
Costco, America's third-largest retailer, is entering the commerce media industry with a new ad network that will leverage data from its 74.5M members.
The Trade Desk, the industry’s largest demand-side platform (DSP) is drawing a line in the sand between the garbage content that proliferates on the open web and the high-value, premium content that is monetized by The Trade Desk and other...
Adalytics has struck again with another report illuminating shady digital advertising practices. This time, the publisher Forbes is in the hot seat for running a secret made-for-advertising (MFA) subdomain (www3.forbes.com) that served ads which brands thought would be running on Forbes' flagship...
The Last Of Q4 EarningsMagnite (👍): Q4 revenue was up 7% for the largest, independent SSP to $186.9M, beating estimates. Full-year 2023 revenue was also up 7% to $619.7M. Shares rose nearly 15%.
 In an analysis released Tuesday, the IAB found that only a small number of the 44 digital advertising use cases it studied would still work with Google's Privacy Sandbox APIs.
All eyes are on the Privacy Sandbox now that Google has kicked off third-party cookie deprecation by turning off cookies for 1% of Chrome users. Companies across the ecosystem are testing the Privacy Sandbox APIs—and not always liking what they see.
Mediaocean says it will merge Innovid, a video ad server, with Flashtalking, the independent digital ad server Mediaocean acquired in 2021, also for $500M. Mediaocean’s core solution provides media billing, planning, and buying workflow automation tech for marketers and agencies.
Publicis is beefing up its Epsilon marketing tech and data arm with the acquisition of Lotame. One of the original data management platforms (DMP) founded 19+ years ago, Lotame pivoted to identity and data collaboration as privacy restrictions tightened and data clean...
The Wall Street Journal has published a report based on Adalytics research claiming that the digital ad industry's top verification companies—DoubleVerify, Integral Ad Science (IAS), and Human Security—are failing to catch bots in digital advertising, even when those bots openly...
HP Is Launching an Ad Business With Laptop-Targeted Ads and a Streaming Service - The tech manufacturer is pitching advertisers on its HP Media Network, which leverages data from 160 million US users across 19 million devices to serve targeted ads...
Revenue was up 19% to $694M, beating estimates, but growth decelerated from 26% a year ago. CFO Laura Schenkein departed, replaced by Alex Kayyal.
In a surprise deal, Disney will launch a new virtual multichannel video provider (vMVPD) offering by combining its Hulu + Live TV business with Fubo.
Programmatic media buying is becoming more efficient, according to the latest update to the ANA's 2024 Programmatic Transparency Benchmark Study.
The recorded version of this event is available here. Attention metrics have emerged as a new currency for digital media buying and measurement. You probably already know that. Here's what you may not know: How attention metrics actually work. Why we...
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