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Google adtech antitrust trial: Everything you need to know

Martech

9) DOJ laid out their accusations as follows: Google controls the advertiser ad network. Google dominates the publisher ad server. Google runs the ad exchange connecting the two. Google’s defense: Disputed the definition of open-web display ads. Day 1: Accusations and badgering of witnesses (Sept.

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Header-bidding Wrapper Landscape in 2019

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Header-bidding is an AdTech solution for publishers that allows running parallel auctions, in which multiple ad exchanges and networks bid on the same impression simultaneously. Higher competition ensures increased revenues for publishers and holistic yield management.

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2019 Mobile App Monetization Trends [New Research]

InMobi

What are the biggest mobile app monetization trends of 2019 and 2020? What we found was that while in-app header bidding adoption was nascent, it was already providing real benefits to the mobile apps where it was in place, and thus was likely to be included in everyone’s business models in 2019. So did our prediction come true?

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2019 Trends: Header Bidding, Mobile Apps and The Future of In-App Ad Monetization

InMobi

Even though it seems at times like everyone from the world’s biggest ad platforms down to tiny ad networks was talking about in-app header bidding in 2018, actual adoption of unified auctions among mobile publishers, app developers and their programmatic demand sources was low. But, expect all that to change in 2019.

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UK finally opens antitrust probe of Google’s role in the adtech stack

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“The CMA is assessing whether Google’s practices in these parts of the ad tech stack may distort competition. “The CMA is also concerned that Google may have used its publisher ad server and its DSPs to illegally favour its own ad exchange services, while taking steps to exclude the services offered by rivals.”

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The Ad Tech Company That Keeps Getting Acquired By Brands

AdExchanger

McDonald’s bought Dynamic Yield in 2019 for roughly $300 million dollars to help modernize and personalize its drive-thru experience, outdoor menus and digital ordering kiosks. Personalization platform Dynamic Yield has the distinction of having been acquired by not one but two large brands.

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Benefits of UPRs Management for Publishers to Boost Programmatic Revenue

YieldBird

In 2019, Google’s shift to a first-price auction significantly transformed how publishers managed pricing rules. To streamline and centralize the process, Google Ad Manager (GAM) replaced the previous pricing rules with Unified Pricing Rules (UPRs), ensuring consistent pricing across all channels.

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