Ad Tech

Microsoft is buying AT&T’s ad-tech business, Xandr, subject to regulators, to boost its connected TV offer. Xandr, named after AT&T founder Alexander Graham Bell, includes both demand and sell-side platforms and an ad server. Microsoft’s Mikhail Parakhin says: “With Xandr’s ...

Five years ago, the ANA highlighted the lack of transparency in the media and advertising supply chain in their ground-breaking report. My colleague at Media Marketing Compliance, Stephen Broderick, was part of the group of select advisers that helped put ...

Sean Lyons became CEO of R/GA in 2019, when he took over from the agency’s founder, Bob Greenberg. A native New Yorker, Lyons has worked in creative tech since graduating with a degree in painting and electronic media in 1998, ...

The general public is more educated and aware than ever before about data privacy. The combination of data legislation like the EU’s GDPR or Virginia’s recently-passed CDPA, and the industry’s advocacy has helped with this education, but regularly these discussions ...

We’ve had ecommerce, now it’s v-commerce or voice commerce as advertisers prepare to take orders and payments over the wireless – well maybe not the wireless. WPP’s giant GroupM media buying group has confirmed a deal with London-based Say It ...

There’s little doubt where WPP CEO Mark Read sees the future: ecommerce or commerce as WPP likes to call it (the ‘e’ is clearly so last year.) WPP has bought UK-based Cloud Commerce Group, described as a technology company that ...

Unesco is launching The Cookie Factory as part of a campaign against the aforementioned online menaces, aimed at persuading its 193 member states to adopt its Recommendation on the Ethics of AI. That is, stop A1-powered cookies spying on us. ...

An eerie silence seems to have descended on adland: we’ve had loads of Christmas/holiday ads – some good – but even these, in hindsight, seem mired in a post-Covid gloom. Lots of big media reviews too but these are now ...

Ad platform TPS Engage says it’s the first company to introduce crypto-currencies into media buying. It will now trade programmatic digital out of Home (DOOH) with Bitcoin and eGold. TPS says its ad platform will allow any advertiser (subject to ...