The Trade Desk Reframes Its Open Internet Vision As ‘The Premium Internet’

The Trade Desk delivered another smash earnings report. What’s new? The company’s total revenue in Q1 was $491 million, a 28% increase from last year, and net income (i.e. profit) jumped from $9 million in Q1 2023 to $32 million this quarter. Consistent revenue growth and profit has become the norm for TTD, which reported […]

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Magnite Makes Its Case As A Differentiated SSP

For Magnite, the biggest growth opportunity lies in supply-path optimization. The trade-off is the pressure to differentiate itself from other supply-side platforms competing for agency deals.

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Horizon: Audio Is The Next New Thing In Performance Media

Mix and attribution models have always been about the input data, and when Horizon Media began ingesting audio, it found a surprising result: better ROI.

New Ad-Supported Streaming Options See Little Backlash, Study Finds

Hub’s Q1 2024 TV Churn Tracker shows an overall jump in streaming business among those using only an ad-supported option at 18% – up from 8% in Q1 2023.

We Tried the World’s Most Expensive Racing Simulator

Dynisma’s $2 million rig is state of the art. Just ask Ferrari, which has one for its F1 team. Now a consumer model is in development, we decided to test the ultimate driving simulator.

TV Giants Coming To Upfronts With No Strikes Against Them

Star power — and Jimmy Kimmel, too — will return next week to the Upfronts now that last year’s actors’ and writers’ strikes are ancient history.

Why Ad Tech Is The New Change Management For Retailers

Mark Heitke has borne witness to great change in the retail media landscape over the past decade. He joined Best Buy in 2013 to help develop what was then called the Best Buy Media Network and today is Best Buy Ads. But being the ad tech expert inside a retailer means a certain amount of […]

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Will Congress Pass Kids Privacy Laws This Week?; Stop Demonizing Paid Traffic

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bill Rush Congress is scrambling to pass new children’s online privacy laws by Friday. The IAB and other organizations are voicing their opposition. Since late last week, senators have proposed three bills as amendments to the unrelated Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act, a […]

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CMO Strategies: Advertisers weigh success metrics and challenges on ad-supported streaming platforms

This is the fifth and final installment in Digiday’s multi-part series covering the top ad-supported streaming services and part of Digiday’s CMO Strategies series.

The first installment provided an overview of the various platforms’ offerings, including pricing and plans, ad options, and new ad formats, along with our methodology. The second installment examined which platforms receive the bulk of marketers’ ad budgets and ad placements. The third installment uncovered which ad attributes matter the most to marketers. And the fourth installment looked at which types of first-party data are most important to marketers for ad targeting on streaming platforms.

Impressions and engagement are standout metrics to gauge campaign success

Brands and agencies consider a range of metrics to measure the success of the campaigns they’re running on ad-supported streaming platforms — everything from engagement/watch time to impressions to click-through rates. 

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