How SHE Media Helps Diverse Publishers Break Barriers To Ad Budgets

Marketers want to reach underserved audiences. But the open programmatic marketplace makes that difficult. The phaseout of third-party cookies and other identity signals means that it’s harder to know who’s on the other side of an ad impression. And brand safety blocklists tend to flag content that appeals to women and minorities as unsafe. Terms […]

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TV Bigs Getting Out Front Of Upfronts With Early Announcements

Upfront Week announcements are already coming fast and furious from the big TV companies that simply cannot wait to reveal their outsized presentation plans.

What’s Behind Big Platform Partnerships?; Walmart’s Vizio Vision

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Sky Bridges Standalone walled gardens are transforming into an interconnected network of fortresses. It’s not that walled gardens are opening up, exactly, but individual platforms are now actively partnering to allow one-to-one user targeting and other use cases among themselves – but […]

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Marketers are starting to test alternatives to third-party cookies amid Google’s changes

Instead of waiting for a lifeline from Google, some marketers are taking matters into their own hands.

They’re testing alternatives to third-party cookies now that the tech giant has clipped one percent of them in its Chrome browser. These marketers understand the tests won’t be perfect, but they’re seizing the moment to make a start. After all, as they argue, if not now, then when?

“We’ve had more interest in this [alternatives to third-party cookies] during this early part of the year than we had for the whole of 2023,” said Georgie Haig, product lead of identity at programmatic marketing agency MiQ.

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In a booming influencer economy, creators seek standardization for payment terms

The creator economy is booming. And as creators have become a marketing must-have, they say they’re increasingly pushing for reasonable payment terms, asking for deposits, enacting late fees and employing other tactics to get their fair share of said boom.

Last year, both agency clients and brands reported that they were investing more in influencer marketing than they were in 2022, according to Digiday research. The influencer/creator economy is currently worth $250 billion and it’s expected to nearly double to $480 billion by 2027, according to Goldman Sachs estimates.

To some extent, the creator economy and influencer marketing are still considered marketing’s Wild West, especially when it comes to performance indicators and pay standards. But as it becomes a common line item within marketing budgets, creators and influencers say they’re campaigning for brands, their agency partners and influencer marketing platforms to revisit payment terms.

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Research Briefing: The Cut expands as publishers overall increase ad products

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In this week’s Digiday+ Research Briefing, we examine how publishers are growing their ad products, when agencies and publishers expect deprecation of the third-party cookie to actually happen, and how marketers relied on traditional celebrities for their Super Bowl ads, as seen in recent data from Digiday+ Research.

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Media Briefing: How 3 publishers are making their sites more/less habitable to AI crawlers 

To battle or embrace AI bots

Many publishers, like 404 Media and The Washington Post, have grown wary of AI crawler bots and their ability to scrape and take original content for unapproved uses, including training large language models or altogether regurgitating the articles with a new headline and no credit. 

Meanwhile, other publishers like Politico EU, are choosing to welcome AI crawlers with open arms.

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Leading Lab-Grown Meat Company Upside Foods Just Paused a Major Expansion

Upside Foods is putting plans for its Illinois-based cultivated meat factory on hold and laying off staff to focus on its existing plant.