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A new report from the Adalytics has advertisers and brand-safety experts asking new questions about the effectiveness of AI systems. The latest report from the digital watchdog, released today, claims to have found hundreds of brands appearing next to unsafe content on user-generated content (UGC) websites such as Fandom wiki pages and other websites. Many […]

Reddit’s investments in its ad platform are paying off, big time. But it’s still got a long way to go to catch up to its social media peers. The company reported $253 million in Q2 ad revenue on Tuesday, good for a 41% year-over-year (YOY) growth rate. Reddit’s ads business drove its overall Q2 revenue

It’s widely accepted that last-click attribution is flawed. While publicly it’s much derided, however, privately it shows no sign of going anywhere. Unfortunately, retail media and commerce media have their own version of last-click addiction: add-to-cart (ATC) rates.  And just like last-click attribution, it’s a metric not fit for consumption. It also highlights the real

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. C(heap) TV When Netflix introduced ads in 2022, the CPMs were set at an eye-popping $65. Some advertisers were willing to pony up that first year for the cachet of being among the first advertisers on the platform. But then rates dropped from

A federal judge has ruled that Google monopolized search and the ad dollars it generates through illegal commercial deals. So, what’s the next step? First up, the jury’s still out on what consequences Google could face. These could range from forcing Google to overhaul its business practices to possibly breaking up the company entirely. Not

This week’s Future of TV Briefing updates the list of the key terms that can cause confusion when talking about the TV, streaming and digital video industry. The future of TV, defined Netflix’s new ad prices, MrBeast’s game gone wrong, Nvidia’s YouTube scraping and more The future of TV, defined Welcome to the third edition

X is dragging a global alliance of advertisers to court, accusing them of mob-like behavior. The advertising industry, of course, finds this beef utterly ungrounded. But in typical X fashion, it went completely off-script. There was no press release from corporate comms, no statement on social media. Instead, they announced the lawsuit against the Global

In 2024, publishers look for revenue opportunities anywhere they can and two of the most prominent vendors for incremental ad revenue — Outbrain and Teads — announced last week that the former was acquiring the latter in a $1 billion deal. While unexpected at first, two publishers said in the days following the announcement that

Elon Musk, the controversial owner of ad-funded platform X, has followed through on his threat to sue a global alliance of advertisers over alleged antitrust activity. His company filed the federal lawsuit today against the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), targeting its members CVS Health, Mars, Orsted, Unilever, and the trade body behind it,