Advertising Tech
Netflix to take on Google and Amazon by building its own ad server
The announcement signifies a significant shake-up in the streaming giant’s advertising approach.
Topsort develops retail media technology for small businesses to use auctions as a way to create effective advertising.
Meta will start requiring disclosures for political ads manipulated with AI
In 2024, Meta will begin requiring advertisers running political or issue ads on its platforms to disclose when their ads are “digitally created or altered” through the use of AI.…
TikTok ads expand to the real world with new ‘Out of Phone’ program
A few months after TikTok teamed up with Redbox to feature content on more than 3,000 kiosks, the short-form video app is partnering with more companies to expand its advertising…
Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform
Reddit said Wednesday that the platform is revamping its privacy settings with an aim to make ad personalization and account visibility toggles consistent. Most notably though, it is removing the…
TikTok content to be featured on 3K+ Redbox kiosks
Redbox, the operator of DVD rental kiosks, today announced a new deal with TikTok that allows the company to feature popular content from the short-form video app on more than…
Roku users can buy products from Shopify merchants with their TV remote
Roku is partnering with Shopify to give users the ability to purchase products from Shopify merchants through their TVs, the hardware company announced Tuesday. Viewers will be able to interact…
LinkedIn is the next social network to offer AI-powered tools for ad copies
Weeks after Meta launched a suite of generative AI-based tools to help advertisers create different campaigns, LinkedIn has introduced its own tool to suggest different copies of an ad. The…
Meta today announced an AI Sandbox for advertisers to help them create alternative copies, background generation through text prompts and image cropping for Facebook or Instagram ads. The first feature…
Major tech organizations are racing to ship generative AI tools. And yet, a few companies have remained silent, including Apple and Meta. Today, the organization led by Mark Zuckerberg said…
MiO Marketplace, a platform for media publishers and buyers, shared the deck it used to raise an angel round of $550,000 at a $3.6 million pre-money valuation.
TikTok adds new targeting and boosting features to its Promote advertising tool
TikTok is adding new targeting and boosting features for its Promote advertising tool, the company announced on Wednesday. Promote first launched in 2021 as a way for creators to turn…
Twitter partners with DoubleVerify and IAS on brand safety initiative amid advertiser exits
Amid declining ad revenue and advertiser exits, Twitter announced today that it has teamed up with adtech companies DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science (IAS) to tell advertisers if their ad…
TikTok parent ByteDance just bought a hospital group in China
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is making some pretty heavy bets on the healthcare space as it acquired Amcare, which runs high-end children’s and women’s hospitals across China. The buyout cost…
Hold-outs targeted in fresh batch of noyb GDPR cookie consent complaints
Just over a year after launching a major project targeting thousands of sites blatantly flouting cookie tracking rules in Europe, regional privacy campaign group noyb has fired off another batch…
DuckDuckGo removes carve-out for Microsoft tracking scripts after securing policy change
A few months on from a tracking controversy hitting privacy-centric search veteran, DuckDuckGo, the company has announced it’s been able to amend terms with Microsoft, its search syndication partner, that…
Sensitive data ruling by Europe’s top court could force broad privacy reboot
A ruling put out yesterday by the European Union’s top court could have major implications for online platforms that use background tracking and profiling to target users with behavioral ads…
How does one build, scale and navigate the headwinds of a recession, especially as consumer behavior changes dramatically?
Peacock’s paid subscribers stayed flat at 13 million, losses widen to $467 million
Peacock, the streaming service of Comcast’s NBCUniversal, ended the second quarter with 13 million paid subscribers, parent company Comcast reported this morning. In the first quarter, there were 13 million…
Google is again delaying plans to phase out Chrome’s use of third-party cookies — the files websites use to remember preferences and track online activity. In a blog post, Anthony…
Seedtag, the ex-Googler-founded, cookie-free, AI-based adtech startup, taps $250M+ in funding
As regulation, platform dynamics and consumer choice continue to eat into the adtech stalwart known as cookies, it’s leaving a gap in the market for advertising solutions that can work…
Chartbeat, a website that tells publishers about their readers, is getting the private equity treatment. Launched out of Betaworks in 2009, the service offered real-time analytics back when Google Analytics…
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Is the advertising market in trouble?
Are we seeing the ad market truly tumble? And if so, what should we expect to shake out from the decline?
Why investors see the potential in AI-powered, copy-generating adtech companies
Sophisticated AI systems like OpenAI’s GPT-3 can write prose that’s impressively human-like, or at least good enough to fool the average person. They’ve been used to generate essays, poetry, stories,…
Google tells staff to act ‘more entrepreneurial.’ Translation: Work harder, or else
Sundar Pichai, boss of Google and its parent Alphabet, told employees to “be more entrepreneurial” and work with “more hunger” in a staff-wide email that warned of consolidation, several news…
Disney strikes a big adtech deal with The Trade Desk as Disney+ expands into ads
Disney struck an advertising agreement with The Trade Desk, making it possible for brands to target automated ads across Disney’s linear and streaming properties — Hulu, ESPN+, ABC, Freeform, ESPN,…
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How e-commerce companies can brave the new retail environment
Even with inflation, and a potential recession on the horizon, now is the time to reach out to existing customers and stick with them through the ups and downs.
TechCrunch+ roundup: SaaS success stats, leveraging ad tech chaos, 2022 layoff trends
I remember the dread I felt as a startup worker during downturns when I read about mass layoffs at tech firms that had previously been considered ascendant.
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What to look for when hiring a growth marketing agency
The rapid expansion of the growth marketing industry has created a significant problem for startups looking to hire.
Google’s ‘deceptive’ account sign-up process targeted with GDPR complaints
Consumer rights groups in Europe have filed a new series of privacy complaints against Google — accusing the advertising giant of deceptive design around the account creation process that they…