Video

A+E Networks, AMC Networks, and Cheddar join Xandr’s Community Video Marketplace

A+E Networks, AMC Networks, and Cheddar are the recent publishers joining Xandr’s curated marketplace named Community, Xandr yesterday announced.

Data

The end of free articles without a login? Google remedies loophole in Chrome

Google is updating Chrome next week, remedying a loophole that has allowed sites to detect people who are browsing in Incognito Mode, when they offer a limited number of articles without a login.

Social

Pinterest rolls out well-being search for people feeling down

Pinterest is rolling out well-being search for people feeling down.

Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI becoming the preferred partner

Microsoft and OpenAI today announced a partnership, where Microsoft will invest $1 billion in OpenAI.

Microsoft Advertising launches Experiments globally

Microsoft Advertising today launched Experiments globally, enabling advertisers to do clean A/B testings.

Baidu and Snap renew sales partnership in China, Japan and South Korea

Baidu and Snap renew sales partnership in China, Japan and South Korea. Through this partnership, advertisers in these countries can leverage Snapchat’s global reach to grow their business through advertising.

Amazon sold 175 million items on the latest Prime Day

Amazon yesterday revealed that it has sold more than 175 million items throughout the 2 days of Prime Day. According to Amazon, on July 15 and 16, sales surpassed the previous Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined. Amazon says Prime Day 2019 was another record-breaking for independent third-party sellers. Globally,

Display

AdStage integrates Quora Ads

AdStage yesterday integrated Quora Ads in their platform.

Data

Free HubSpot CRM now includes email marketing, Google and LinkedIn Ads

HubSpot this week announced that it now offers free email creation, sending, and analytics as part of the free HubSpot CRM.

Vendasta raises $40M in growth capital

Vendasta say these investments will enable the expansion of its Saskatoon-based team from 285 people to 650 in the next three years.

Amazon amends its terms for third-party sellers, pushed by the German regulator

Bundeskartellamt, the competition regulator from Germany, yesterday announced conclusions of the abuse of dominance proceedings against Amazon, initiated in November 2018.

Retail

European Commission opens antitrust investigation into Amazon Marketplace

The European Commission yesterday opened an antitrust investigation to assess whether Amazon’s use of sensitive data from independent retailers who sell on its marketplace is in breach of EU competition rules.

Display

Google depreciates User List dimensions and renames social metrics in Campaign Manager

Google is depreciating audience performance report dimensions. The reporting updates will happen in August and September.

Google to introduce detailed ads.txt reporting and to change Active View Viewable Time in DV360

Google is changing the Authorized Seller State dimension values on DV360. The change will happen in August and September.

IPA expecting 1.1% growth in 2019 for the marketing budgets in the UK

Latest Bellwether data, released yesterday by IPA, show that there is a stalling of growth of the available marketing budgets.

Display

Outbrain partners with Evolve Media

Outbrain yesterday announced it did a partnership with Evolve Media.

DuckDuckGo is now working with Apple Maps

DuckDuckGo this week announced that is using Apple to display maps.  DuckDuckGo says that it doesn’t share any personally identifiable  information such as IP address with Apple and that user’s approximate  location information, sent by the browser, is discarded immediately  after use on the local searches. Apple’s

Audio

Triton Digital wins ExchangeWire’s The Wires APAC 2019 Best New Product or Service – Sell Side

Triton Digital yesterday won the ExchangeWire’s The Wires APAC 2019 Best New Product or Service – Sell Side for their supply-side platform, Yield-Op.

Data

Dentsu to acquire a majority stake in Ugam

Dentsu yesterday reached an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Ugam Solutions, with an option of making it a wholly-owned subsidiary in the future.

Smart acquires InsideAll

Smart this month acquired InsideAll, a technology company that facilitates client-side Header Bidding for publishers.

DOOH

Daktronics Joins DPAA, the out-of-home marketing association

DPAA yesterday announced that Daktronics has joined its membership ranks.

Wavemaker names Toby Jenner as global CEO

GroupM agency Wavemaker this month named Toby Jenner Global CEO.

Video

RTL combines MPN Divimove, United Screens, and RTL MCN

RTL Group is combining its European multi-platform networks (MPNs) to create what it describes as “Europe’s leading digital studio”.

Social

TikTok launches Pro Accounts offering new insights to creators

TikTok this week launched Pro Accounts, offering creators visibility into how their videos are performing with fans. For now, TikTok Pro Accounts are for free.

Socialbakers releases a Content Hub

Socialbakers releases a Content Hub, a go-to place for marketers to collaborate, plan and create content.