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Programmatic Advertising

Simpli.fi, Blackstone, GTCR | October 04, 2021

Simpli.fi, a leader in programmatic advertising and agency management software, announced that private equity funds managed by Blackstone (NYSE:BX) ("Blackstone") have completed the previously announced significant equity investment in the company. Blackstone joins existing investor GTCR, a leading private equity firm, as majority shareholders in the company. The investment, made through Blackstone's flagship private equity vehicle, values the company at approximately $1.5 bi...

Mobile Advertising, Ad Networks

Pixalate | January 17, 2023

Pixalate, which is an analytics platform for fraud protection, privacy, and compliance for connected TV (CTV) and mobile advertising, has released a compliance toolkit for CTV to find and evaluate child-directed apps in the Roku and Amazon Fire TV app stores. The toolkit is designed to enable Pixalate's customers to identify, review, and assess child-directed apps that run on Roku and Amazon Fire TV in order to ensure compliance with relevant laws such as the Children's Online Privacy Pr...

fool | April 15, 2020

In a memo obtained by CNBC, Amazon said it's reducing the commission rates starting April 21. A spokesperson for the tech giant wouldn't say if the move was driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the memo, commission rates for several affiliate product categories are getting reduced significantly. For example rates for furniture and home improvement products have been cut to 3% from 8% while grocery product commission rates fell to 1% from 5%. The commission on ads for headphones,...

Ad Networks

National Advertising Division | December 29, 2021

The National Advertising Division (NAD) of BBB National Programs determined that Chime Financial, Inc.'s advertising for its "SpotMe" program disclosed the material information necessary to ensure that claims about its program are substantiated and that Chime's "no overdraft fees" claims are supported. Further, NAD found that the Chime homepage adequately qualifies its "no fees" claim so that consumers understand that out-of-network ATM fees a...