Tuesday Wake-Up Call: AT&T's ad-tech ambitions. Plus, CBD brands explode

Welcome to Ad Age's Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. You can get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Search for "Ad Age" under "Skills" in the Alexa app. What people are talking about today: AT&T quickly followed up its acquisition of Time Warner by making a deal to buy AppNexus, an ad tech platform. As George Slefo writes in Ad Age, "The move will undoubtedly shake up the current ad landscape as well as challenge the so-called duopoly of Google and Facebook" by giving advertisers an alternative major destination for their spending. AppNexus offers publishers software to automate ad sales in formats like display, audio and over-the-top video. The experts Slefo talked to say AppNexus will provide the newly expanded AT&T the ad-tech "plumbing" it needs to sell its expanding portfolio of inventory. But AT&T still has other hurdles, like how to tie together consumer data across mobile, TV and other devices as it capitalizes on Time Warner's content. Mike Baker, CEO at ad tech company DataXu, told Slefo: "While AppNexus would bring them all the ad tech plumbing they need, this kind of next-generation analytics would still be a missing piece."'A real bike for real Americans'Harley-Davidson, a Wisconsin-based brand heavily steeped in Americana, has been caught up in a trade dispute between the Trump administration and the European Union. And as a result, it's shifting some production abroad. (It... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

[ Advertising Age | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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To deal with native ad pains, Vox Media brings distribution in-house

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Can Volkswagen Rebuild Its Brand?

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Child calls for children's books to be 'taken seriously'

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Industry Notes: Wattpad Opens a Paid Subscription, BookExpo Calls for Submissions

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A ‘World Without Mind’: Big Tech’s Dangerous Influence

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Frankfurt Book Fair: ARTS+ Equals Tech and Innovation

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Weinstein Books 'terminated' in wake of assault allegations

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The tech giants operate like cars without brakes. They must be reined in | Simon Jenkins

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Publishers find Google AMP loads too fast for ad views

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Dove apologises for ad showing black woman turning into white one

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AMC Brings Six-Second Ads to 'The Walking Dead'

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French publisher Liberation now gets half of mobile ad revenue from Facebook Instant Articles

Over half of Liberation's mobile revenue comes from Facebook Instant Articles, which accounts for 10 percent of its mobile pageviews. The post French publisher Liberation now gets half of mobile ad revenue from Facebook Instant Articles appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday

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Amid “Fake News,” Magazines Can Offer Credibility, Safer Ad Environments, Argues New MPA Campaign

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'Abuse of the marketplace': Rupert Murdoch lashes out against tech companies

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