AdExchanger News for June 19, 2018

Today's Must Read - Cannes 2018: At MDC Partners, Autonomy Is The Key To Success Sponsor Message [Clients asking for OTT buys?]( [Download this guidebook to transform their TV strategy.]( [( [AdExchanger | Optimizing the News] Today from AdExchanger Tuesday, June 19 --------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Must Read [Cannes 2018: At MDC Partners, Autonomy Is The Key To Success]( Where other holding companies are trying to break down silos across agencies to collaborate around clients, MDC still believes in the power of autonomous agencies. [More.]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( --------------------------------------------------------------- More from AdExchanger [Exchanges Are Under Pressure To Pony Up For Guaranteed Viewability]( GroupM, known for its hard line on viewability, has been working with AppNexus since last year on a viewability product in which the exchange assumes the cost of unseen impressions. [More.]( [Salesforce Marketing Cloud CEO Stutz On Data, Paid Media And The “Passing Fad” Of The CDP]( Salesforce has deferred to partners to provide online advertising. And while rival clouds contend for new data sources, Salesforce positions itself as perennial integrator. [More.]( [Magna: Global Ad Spend Is Set For Monster Growth In 2018 (Google, Facebook: ‘We’ll Take That, Thanks’)]( Magna predicts overall digital ad spend will hit $250 billion this year – accounting for 45% of global ad revenue – with mobile on track to make up 62% of the total. [More.]( [Data-Driven Thinking...Data Ethics: Permission Is Not The Problem]( It has to be better than seeing and hearing ads about products and services in which I am not interested. But if these same ads are used to sell shoddy products, trick vulnerable people or spread political misinformation, then I'm sure we are all opposed to it. [More.]( [On TV & Video...Live Ads: Fad Or The Future Of Advertising?]( For a live ad to work, it has to feel like an event that captures a specific moment in time. To do that, you need to promote it – an ad for another ad. That creates an added expense typically not associated with commercials. [More.]( Sponsor Message [Access OTT through FreeWheel.]( [Reach CTV viewers you want with the transparency you need.]( [freewheel.tv]( News Round Up Weed Whacks Influencers Influencer marketing has a fraud problem, and Unilever CMO Keith Weed has had enough of it. At the Cannes Lions festival, Weed said Unilever will no longer work with influencers who buy followers to inflate audience and engagement metrics. Unilever will never buy followers as a brand and will also prioritize partners that work to eradicate fraud in influencer marketing. “At best it’s misleading, at worst it’s corrupt,” Weed told The Wall Street Journal’s Suzanne Vranica. “For the sake of a few bad apples in the barrel, I believe there is risk in the area of influencers.” [More](. Ahead Of The Game Go back five years or so, and YouTube and Facebook dominated online gaming (Farmville, anyone?). Today, it’s all about Amazon. While Facebook set its sights on advertising after its IPO, Amazon outbid Google for Twitch, the video game streaming startup. At this point, “Amazon’s lead may be all but insurmountable,” writes John Herrman for [The New York Times](. The average number of people watching Twitch streams last quarter was 953,000, up from 788,000 the quarter before, according to data from Streamlabs, a monetization tech company for video game livestreamers. YouTube Gaming averaged 272,000 concurrent viewers, down from 308,000 the prior quarter. But this isn’t necessarily evidence that Google or Facebook were wrong to focus on ads over gaming revenue. The purchases and subscriptions that Amazon gets from Twitch are peanuts compared to the mobile game app ad dollars that flow to YouTube or Facebook. Retail Wagging The Dog Google announced a $550 million investment in JD.com, the second largest ecommerce seller in China. The tie-up helps JD get products listed in the US and Europe, where it doesn’t have much consumer traction, while Google is in a frenzy to add retail partners to stave off (or win back) Amazon product search market share gains, writes [CNBC](. Google launched a partnership with French retail giant Carrefour last week, and in March, it introduced Shopping Actions, a platform for retailers to sell and integrate loyalty card or Android Pay wallets – Google’s foray into the shopper marketing budgets that Amazon has lucratively brought online. The large investment in JD, as opposed to a partnership, also points to the impossibility of breaking into the Chinese market without going through one of the top national tech companies. The Writing On The Wall Google and Facebook policy changes this year for GDPR prohibit advertisers from connecting each platform’s IDs to broader campaigns, thereby wreaking havoc on agency services like omnichannel attribution or frequency capping. Not so long ago, agencies and attribution vendors were chasing the holy grail of multitouch attribution, but the unbreachable nature of walled garden platforms may make true multitouch more myth than possible reality. Even so, it’s not all doom and gloom for measurement companies. One marketer tells Digiday it’s now working with Amazon and Nielsen to cobble together targeting across platforms, since it can no longer do so with its DMP. [More](. 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