AdExchanger News for May 23, 2018

Today's Must Read - Shopper Marketing Undergoes A Digital Evolution Sponsor Message [Make Sense of Invalid Traffic]( [Watch the webinar from Oracle’s Moat to learn how to handle IVT.]( [info.moat.com/invalid-traffic-webinar-on-demand.html]( [AdExchanger | Optimizing the News] Today from AdExchanger Wednesday, May 23 --------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Must Read [Shopper Marketing Undergoes A Digital Evolution]( A brand shopper marketer assigned to, say, Kroger or Target could spend on that respective retailer’s platform and feel confident the target audience will end up shopping at that chain and not with some other grocer where he or she doesn’t get credit. [More.]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( --------------------------------------------------------------- More from AdExchanger [What Was And Wasn’t Said When Zuckerberg Testified In Brussels]( Zuckerberg trotted out familiar talking points and was sheltered from the intensity and awkward eye contact of real interrogation by a strange format, in which members of the EU Parliament asked questions for nearly an hour and Zuckerberg spent about 20 minutes cherry-picking which he wanted to answer. [More.]( [Google Plans To Join The IAB Europe GDPR Framework, But The Devil Is In The Details]( Google said it will join once it has resolved technical and policy details so parts of its ad tech can operate with the framework. [More.]( [IAB: Agencies Fall Into Specialist Roles As More Brands Bring Programmatic In-House]( “It has to do with [agencies’] ability to optimize quickly,” the IAB's Orchid Richardson said. “It’s several layers of people to get through to make those adjustments. When there’s a chain of command, the sheer time it takes has a negative impact on ROI.” [More.]( [Data-Driven Thinking...For Better Targeting, Look For Clues In The Human Mind]( Storytelling is effective regardless of the medium you choose for your campaign, but it is especially impactful in video where sight, sound and motion come together to build an even richer experience. [More.]( Sponsor Message [Salesforce DMP]( [Capture, unify & activate data to deepen consumer engagement](. [( News Round Up CTV Scrapper Roku has maintained a leading position in the streaming device market in spite of heated competition from Google’s Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV, according to eMarketer data. And that’s despite Roku’s shift from pure hardware sales to a business model fueled primarily by advertising dollars, a maneuver many companies fail to execute. By 2020, Roku is projected to earn more ad revenue than Hulu and IAC, the video and web publishing company. And Roku is leaning into media with the Roku Channel, a network of syndicated content the company licenses and advertises against, which is the third most-watched, ad-supported channel for the OTT platform, Axios reports. [More](. Feathering The Nest Twitter wants to make money off-platform, so it’s launching an ad network pilot for Twitter Timeline Ads, similar to Google Display Network and Facebook Audience Network, Lauren Johnson reports for Business Insider. The program would let Twitter serve ads to publisher pages and expand its programmatic capabilities beyond the MoPub exchange. It’s launching the ad network at an opportune time, as publishers are fed up with Facebook’s constant algorithm changes and are wary of its bad press. "You already enjoy the power of real-time Tweets on your webpage through embedded Timelines,” according to Twitter’s Timeline Ads announcement. “Now, let it generate revenue for your site." [More](. At Your Self-Service Conversant launched a self-serve version of its platform called Mesobase that uses the company’s ID graph to roll up non-PII data for identity resolution and measurement. The self-serve aspect gives marketers more transparency and control over audience modeling and attribution. Mesobase is also decoupled from Conversant’s media business, so customers don’t have to buy through Conversant to use the tool. “Clients want access to that data and that full transparency because they’re seeing walls go up all around the ecosystem,” Conversant product management VP David Scrim tells AdExchanger. “They’re getting more sophisticated and comfortable with it.” [Read the release](. But Wait, There’s More! - [Small Brands Taking A Thousand Little Bites Out Of Campbell’s Biz]( - WSJ - [How To Improve Your App’s Visibility, Organically]( - eMarketer - [Xumo’s Streaming Views Added To Nielsen Digital Content Ratings]( - release - [JPMorgan Chase Is Moving Ad Dollars Back To TV]( - Business Insider - [Most GDPR Emails Are Unnecessary, Some May Be Illegal]( - The Guardian - [DAA And Other Trade Groups Launch Political Ad Guidance, Standards]( - release - [Is Facebook Just A Platform? A Lawyer To The Stars Says No]( - NYT - [Starbucks’ Mobile Payment System Outpaces Apple’s Or Google’s]( - Recode - [Forming The First Influencer Marketing Trade Organization]( - release - [Publisher’s Thoughts On Video Platforms]( - Digiday You’re Hired! - [Amazon Studios Names NBC Vet Vernon Sanders Co-Head Of TV]( - Variety - [Fox News Names Dan Realson VP Of Digital Ad Sales]( - release - [Kimberly-Clark Switches CMOs Amid Global Creative Review]( - Ad Age Podcasts [AdExchanger Talks Episode 77:]( Simpli.fi's Frost Prioleau [AdExchanger Talks Episode 76:]( Google's Bob Arnold [AdExchanger Talks Episode 75:]( Pivotal Research's Brian Wieser [AdExchanger Talks Episode 74:]( iSpot.tv's Sean Muller [AdExchanger Talks Episode 73:]( Getty Images' Kavata Mbondo [AdExchanger Talks Episode 72:]( NYIAX's Carolina Abenante [AdExchanger Talks Episode 71:]( Gartner's Martin Kihn [AdExchanger Talks Episode 70:]( Cognitiv's Jeremy Fain [AdExchanger Talks Episode 69:]( Prohaska Consulting's Matt Prohaska [AdExchanger Talks Episode 68:]( 4C Insights' Lance Neuhauser [AdExchanger Talks Episode 67:]( Goodway Group's Jay Friedman [Get More AdExchanger Talks Episodes >>]( Events [PROGRAMMATIC I/O](, New York, October 15-16, 2018 [Industry Preview 2019](, NYC, January 23-24, 2019 [PROGRAMMATIC I/O](, San Francisco, April 29-30, 2019 Share This Email: [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( [Google+]( | [Forward To A Friend]( AdExchanger | 41 E. 11th Street, Floor 11 | NYC | 10003 [Update your email preferences]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( [Blog](