80% of the consumers will reduce or stop buying a product if advertised in dangerous content

TAG this week revealed a study that highlights the financial risk to brands from a brand safety crisis involving their advertising.

Google Ad Manager API updated to include new reporting dimensions and allowed formats in programmatic

Google this week updated Google Ad Manager API (new version v201908) to include new reporting dimentions.

Triton Digital secures the IAB Tech Lab Podcast Measurement Compliance verification

Triton Digital this week announced that it is among the first companies to secure the IAB Tech Lab Podcast Measurement Compliance verification.

Pinterest opens an office in Sydney

Pinterest is opening an office Sydney, the company announced yesterday. The Australian office will serve Pinners, creators and businesses in Australia and New Zealand. According to Pinterest, Pinners in the two countries save nearly 4 million ideas to Pinterest each day. Pinterest’s Australian office is led by newly appointed

Uber hires Thomas Ranese as Vice President of Global Marketing

Uber this week announced the hiring of Thomas Ranese for the Vice President of Global Marketing role.

Index Exchange Earns “TAG Platinum” status by securing all 4 tag seals

Index Exchange obtained the four Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) Seals.

Google includes shopping campaigns in Google Ads’ Optimization Score

Google yesterday included shopping campaigns in Google Ads’ Optimization Score. Optimization Score is now including search campaigns and shopping campaigns.

Google to remove average position metric from Google Ads on September 30

The average position metric termination will happen on September 30, 2019.

GumGum names Patrick Gildea as new CFO

GumGum yesterday announced that it has named Patrick Gildea to lead as Chief Financial Officer.

ViacomCBS becomes the new media giant in the US with the CBS and Viacom merger

CBS and Viacom today entered in an agreement to combine in an all-stock merger both companies.

Snap launches Spectacles 3 capturing the world in 3D

Snap today launched the third version of Spectacles.

Spotify for Podcasters goes out of beta

Spotify today launched publicly the platform Spotify for Podcasters.

How to delete a TikTok account in 6 steps

Once the TikTok account is deleted, users can’t use the account to log in to TikTok, users will lose access to the videos they’ve posted, lose access to purchased items and won’t be able to receive a refund.

Google introduces support for price extensions on the Google Ads scripts

Google this week introduced support for price extensions in Google Ads scripts.

Audio

Spotify becomes the most popular podcast service in Austria, The Czech Republic and Romania

Voxnest this month revealed that Spotify has become the most popular service for podcast listnening in ria, The Czech Republic and Romania.

Facebook files lawsuits against alleged ad fraudsters in Facebook’s Audience Network

Facebook this month filed lawsuits against 2 app developers, LionMobi, based in Hong Kong, and JediMobi, based in Singapore.

Video

Teads now offers 100% viewability for all CPV campaigns

Teads last month announced that is now offering 100% viewability for all CPV (cost per completed view) campaigns, and VCPM (viewable CPM) campaigns.

Search

Podcast episodes now appear on Google search results

Google this week introduced podcast episodes on the Google search results.

Search

Google adds a preview box on image search results

Google last days added a preview box on image search results.

The Trade Desk’s revenue up 42% from a year ago

The Trade Desk’s revenue was $159.9 million for the last quarter, up 42% from a year ago and adjusted EBITDA was $58 million in Q2, the company announced this week.

Joyn reaches 3.8 million monthly active users in Germany

ProSieben’s streaming platform Joyn has now 3.8 million monthly total active users, the company announced on the financial results presentation of the last quarter.

Non-skippable YouTube ads available on DV360 reach planning tool

Google this week announced that non-skippable YouTube ads will soon be supported in the reach planning tool in DV360, Google Marketing Platform.

Audio

Spotify introduces Interest and Real-Time Context Targeting in Ad Studio

Spotify this month introduced Interest and Real-Time Context Targeting in Ad Studio. Ad Studio is Spotify’s self-serve ad platform.

O3 Industries buys Peer39, the contextual targeting provider from Sizmek

O3 Industries this month acquired Peer39, a division of Sizmek.

Microsoft acquires PromoteIQ

Microsoft yesterday announced that it has acquired PromoteIQ, a platform that helps retail and manufacturing clients with solutions to help them grow their e-commerce and in-store commerce businesses.