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Apple Passes DMA Costs Back To Developers; Ad Fraud And AI-Generated Obituaries

AdExchanger

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Reg-U-Later Apple has a history of not quite breaching antitrust rulings, but blithely flaunting orders. In 2022, for example, a Dutch court ruled Apple must allow payment alternatives. Apple paid 5 million euros per week in noncompliance fines over months. It eventually acquiesced […] The post Apple Passes DMA Costs Back To Developers; Ad Fraud And AI-Generated Obituaries appeared first on AdExchanger.

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Optimized or maximized?

Seth Godin

Engineers can optimize a bridge. There are some bridge designs that satisfy aesthetic, financial, durability, safety and efficiency needs better than others. The work of optimization is finding the best set of tradeoffs. Maximization, on the other hand, seeks the solution that ranks the highest for just one goal. After it peaked, Yahoo sought to maximize short-term stock price (and the needs of its top executives) instead of optimizing for customer experience, innovation, resilience and utility.

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5 Data Privacy Trends to Watch in 2024

Ad Monsters

As data privacy remains a crucial focus in ad tech, upcoming concerns for 2024 include the enforcement of state laws like Washington’s My Health Data Act, the exploration of PETs to navigate restrictions on sensitive data, potential shifts in business models to secure opt-in consent, and the need for companies to prepare for audits, assessments, and accountability amid a lack of federal privacy regulations.

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Advertisers are coming back into esports — but with caution

Digiday

After a difficult 2023, brand sponsorships are trending upward in esports in 2024 — but in a more experimental manner than the blind trust of past years. The cold of esports winter is ongoing, but the weather has been feeling balmier in the first month of 2024. Brands such as Kia are re-entering the space by sponsoring both teams and leagues , and the Overwatch League, which died an ignominious death last year, is returning in the form of ESL/FACEIT Group’s Overwatch Champions Series.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Heinz, NotCo and more: top creative ads of the week

Bhatnaturally

Every week, I attempt to curate a list of clutter-breaking ads. I still love the business of advertising (I left the ad agency business in 2012) and finding ads which add value to a brand through creativity is a pleasure. Here are some ads which caught my eye this past week. Heinz: the wait Can [.] The post Heinz, NotCo and more: top creative ads of the week appeared first on Bhatnaturally.

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How IAB Tech Lab aims to calm concerns around Google’s Privacy Sandbox 

Digiday

Marketers are on the precipice of a new dawn as the biggest company in media prepares to pull the plug on third-party cookies, the cornerstone of the $600 billion online media business, in Google Chrome. While this is not exactly “news” and just about every company in the sector has spent the last four years trumpeting their diligent preparations, there’s a widespread (if muted) unease over levels of preparedness ahead of the official year-end 2024 deadline.

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Media Buying Briefing: Strategy veteran Anush Prabhu says agencies need for change how they help launch brands

Digiday

It’s an unavoidable reality that every few years the art and science of branding changes. Over the last three years, the changes have felt more tectonic, thanks to a pandemic that changed media consumption habits dramatically. But the rise of DTC companies and the effect of startup culture has bled into mainstream branding to create an altered environment in which agencies — especially media agencies — have had to adapt.

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A Complete Guide to Facebook Ads Agency Pricing

AdvertiseMint

Would you like to learn about Facebook ads agency pricing? It can be tricky to determine what Facebook advertising agencies charge and why. But don’t worry; you’re not alone in this. This blog post will break down the pricing models used by Facebook advertising agencies. Facebook Advertising Agency Pricing Models Facebook ad agencies typically employ various pricing models to cater to the diverse needs and budgets of their clients.

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Pitch deck: How Amazon is selling ads on Prime Video to advertisers

Digiday

Amazon bulldozes into new markets, upending the status quo and challenging rivals. Today, it’s the turn of the ad-supported streaming world, and Amazon is coming out of the gate strong. Why, you ask? Because Amazon is serving marketers an opportunity beginning today to reach a whopping 115 million monthly viewers in the U.S. alone, courtesy of its bold move to make the ad tier default for tens of millions of subscribers worldwide.

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U.K. publishers and the ICO still grapple with offering a ‘reject all’ cookies option amid revenue concerns

Digiday

In November, some of the top publishers by traffic in the U.K. were alerted by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the legislative department tasked with upholding data privacy compliance in the U.K., that their on-site cookie consent pop-ups do not meet the requirements set by the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Retail media advertising: How e-commerce is becoming AdTech’s next frontier

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AI Briefing: FTC and Congress put pressure on AI giants as GenAI misinformation spreads

Digiday

Regulators looking into the dangers of AI are turning up the heat. Last week, the Federal Trade Commission launched a new inquiry into five major AI players to investigate how their investments and partnerships impact competition. Along with new inquiries for Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft, the FTC also is investigating Anthropic and OpenAI. Both startups have received multi-billion-dollar investments from the tech giants.

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