In a unanimous decision, a San Francisco jury sided with Epic Games, ruling that Google violated antitrust laws by unfairly stifling competition within Google Play.
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MOW doesn't see itself as a general services company. The organization was the original body that complained to the CMA, leading to the commitments that delayed the rollout of the Privacy Sandbox. Without MOW's complaint and the CMA, Google's Sandbox may have rolled out long ago.
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Alongside the Topics API and Attribution APIs, PAAPI is intended to preserve the ability of publishers to monetize Chrome users while simultaneously protecting those users from the perceived intrusiveness of the combined weight of the targeting capabilities of the existing advertising technology marketplace.
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In November, the marketing data firm WARC anticipated an 8.2% rise in advertising spending in 2024, following a modest 4.4% increase in 2023. However, newer reports from Dentsu and GroupM indicate more moderate growth rates of 4.6% and 5.3%.
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According to Whistleblower Aid, representing Dr. Donovan, in 2021, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative pledged $500 million over 15 years to found Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard. It was the largest single contribution in the school's history. Both Chan and Zuckerberg attended Harvard.
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Google Chrome’s loss of third-party cookies may mean a definite ending to decades of cookie-based targeting. However, other browsers waved goodbye to this tracking method long ago, and many Chrome users already opted out of being followed around the web for a while now. As a result, advertisers urgently need…
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In early December, the ANA published its Programmatic Media Supply Chain Transparency Study. It is a massive undertaking, as the researchers parsed the log-level data of 21 prominent advertisers to track the entire journey of their investments in the open web. Those campaigns represented $88 billion. Two years in the making,…
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A roundtable of ops leaders gathered at AdMonsters Publisher Forum New Orleans to discuss the most pressing issues facing the industry, including a cookieless future, what’s next with first-party data, and the Privacy Sandbox.
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Amazon’s unBoxed 2023 conference has been eventful. The retailer announced a plethora of new ad tools and expansion of existing ones that are likely to impact the industry in a big way.
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Carbon Intelligence Platform Cedara recently announced the launch of its Reduction Marketplace to make an immediate impact on sustainability efforts in digital advertising, particularly as the industry works toward a Net Zero Carbon Emissions goal.
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