12+ hour, 36+ min ago   (891+ words) The Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon on August 31 over its ad auction practices, alleging that the company has been quietly overcharging advertisers for more than seven years via a hidden “soft reserve price.” Basically, Amazon is being accused of placing…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago   (901+ words) By Toni Poulain, Goodway Group The industry’s first reaction was to debate whether this is a cash grab. The more consequential question is why the buy side remains so smitten with the idea of handing maximum control to autonomous buying…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (785+ words) By Charlie Castell, PubRev+ When news broke that ICE had issued a request for information asking how ad tech providers could support its investigations, the industry reacted with alarm. Executives like Brian O’Kelley of Scope3 warned publicly about what it could…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (797+ words) One surprise beneficiary of the Spirit Airlines bankruptcy debacle: Google. Google spent $10 million to acquire “a trove of deidentified business data, software code and operations records” from the now-defunct airline, Bloomberg Law reports. The data stockpile Google bought for a…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (627+ words) If you’ve bought Google Search or display ads at some point over the past decade or so, Ashley Keller thinks Google might owe you money. A few years ago, for example, the firm filed more than 75,000 arbitration demands over Amazon’s…...