AdExchanger News for July 3, 2018

Today's Must Read - Here’s How California’s Privacy Law Needs To Change To Satisfy The Ad Industry Sponsor Message [Build Your Own Identity Garden]( [Solve customer blindspots with Drawbridge Full-Resolution ID]( []( [AdExchanger | Optimizing the News] Today from AdExchanger Tuesday, July 3 --------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Must Read [Here’s How California’s Privacy Law Needs To Change To Satisfy The Ad Industry]( The new law gives consumers a host of new rights, including the ability to compel companies to share what data has been collected about them, the right to completely opt out of having their data collected and sold and the right to have their personal data deleted by any business that has collected it. [More.]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( --------------------------------------------------------------- More from AdExchanger [IPG Acquires Acxiom Marketing Solutions]( Interpublic Group said Monday it acquired Acxiom’s legacy data management business for $2.3 billion. AMS represents about three-quarters of Acxiom’s total revenue. [More.]( [Bacardí Takes A Shot At IGTV]( Bacardí is one of the first brands to raise a glass. On Friday, less than two weeks after the service was launched, the liquor brand was already running its first live experience. [More.]( [Fox News Uses Search To Win At Breaking News]( Search used to be about evergreen content,” Fiedler said. “But Google has been shifting toward supporting breaking news feeds and the most timely results are showing up at the top of the [top stories] carousel.” [More.]( [The Programmatic Transparency Challenges That Still Must Be Solved]( Our industry has taken great strides improving transparency in recent years, and it’s about to do so again with the IAB’s release of OpenRTB 3.0, the largest overhaul of the OpenRTB protocol since its inception in 2010. [More.]( [Missed Opportunities: Creative Testing For TV]( It goes without saying that a creative can make or break an ad campaign. TV advertisers spend millions to create visually memorable, emotion-driven and even humorous ads that will resonate with viewers. But there’s a “fire-and-forget-it” mentality when it comes to TV creatives, and it’s detrimental to campaign effectiveness. [More.]( Sponsor Message [Increase Back-to-School Sales]( [Annual B2S purchase insights report & tips to gain B2S share]( [( News Round Up The Business Of Media Atlantic Media is selling its mobile-first business property, Quartz, to Uzabase, a Japanese media company with a business news app and corporate intelligence tool. The deal is valued at between $75 million and $100 million, Quartz reports. Founder and editor-in-chief Kevin Delaney and publisher Joe Lauf will become co-CEOs as founder David Bradley continues to divest his stakes in Atlantic Media properties. This is the first acquisition by Uzabase, which is looking to expand its international footprint. For Quartz, Uzabase offers a foundation of subscription tools. “We’ll quickly be developing paid products for the loyal audience Quartz has accrued over the past six years, building on and learning from the success that NewsPicks has had with community and paid content,” Delaney and Lauf wrote in a memo to staff. [More](. Broken Oath? What’s up with Oath? One year after Verizon unveiled the brand with a splashy party in Cannes, buyers are wondering whether CEO Tim Armstrong’s vision for a duopoly competitor will ever come to fruition. Oath has some strong assets, especially in ad tech, but a coherent strategy isn’t coming across to buyers. That’s reflected in Oath’s ad revenue, which is expected to hit $4.8 billion this year, up only slightly from $4.6 billion in 2017. "The vision is muddied, the strategy is unclear," a top ad buyer told Business Insider’s Mike Shields. "They are a jack-of-all-trades, but it's hard to discern what they are masters of, if anything." Armstrong has a big job to bring together two struggling companies and five ad tech platforms, but he’s aware that marketers are getting impatient. "Our customers are really anxious for us to become a bigger partner [in the industry]," Armstrong said. "We're making progress." [More](. The Email Trove As major platforms restrict access to user data, email apps remain an exception. Email service operators like Gmail, Microsoft and Yahoo allow app developers such as Return Path and Edison Software to scan user emails to A/B test or personalize campaigns. Often the email app sells itself as a way to facilitate price comparison or manage travel itineraries, but the user agreements give it access to email content and may even allow it to sell data in partner networks, reports The Wall Street Journal. “Some people might consider that to be a dirty secret,” says Thede Loder, former CTO of one such email data company, eDataSource. “It’s kind of reality.” [More](. But Wait, There’s More! - [How The Ad Tech Sector Is Correcting Itself Post-GDPR]( - The Drum - [Tech’s ‘Dirty Secret’: The App Developers Sifting Through Your Gmail]( - WSJ - [Tesco And Carrefour Plan ‘Strategic Alliance’ To Buy Products]( - The Guardian - [The IAB Introduces Publisher Studio Content Directory]( - release - [Norwegian Browser Maker Opera Files To Go Public]( - TechCrunch - [Initiative’s Baxter: The Measurement Crisis And Consultancy Coattails]( - AdNews - [Why There’s Hope For Smartphone App Reinstallations]( - eMarketer - [US Publishers Continue To Block Or Divert EU Traffic For GDPR]( - Digiday You’re Hired! [Former AOL And MediaMath Director Rob Blake Join Realeyes As CRO]( - blog Sponsor Message [Learn The Better Way To Engage]( [Activate your ideal audience with better personalization. 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