Ad Tech
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CTV Roundup
America’s Test Kitchen Puts Direct And Programmatic Access On Its Menu
America’s Test Kitchen introduced direct and programmatic buying for its free ad-supported TV channels – marking the first time it’s selling ad inventory as a standalone package.
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The Big Story
The Media Spend Skim
Principal-based buying is on the rise, and it’s causing conflict between agencies and ad tech partners. Plus: What are sell-side agents, and how could they help publishers?
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AdExplainer
What Does A Beta Test Of A Sell-Side Agent Look Like?
Using machine learning to automate and optimize ads is familiar to publishers. For years, this tech has helped publishers tune floors and serve the best ads behind the scenes. Now, publishers are exploring automation and optimization through agentic AI. Many publishers have identified a similar use case: sales agents who actively make decisions in the […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
Why Programmatic Quality Control Needs To Focus On The Bid Request, Not Domains
For years, “inventory cleanup” (or “rationalization”) meant one thing: curating the domain list. Whitelists, blacklists, inclusion lists, MFA lists, premium lists, “approved publisher” lists. The industry uses them to reduce risk, improve quality and create a sense of control in an open marketplace that often feels chaotic. That era is ending. It’s not because domain […]
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Marketers
The Rise Of Principal Media And The End Of The Agencies As We Knew Them
When one hears “agent” these days, one automatically thinks “AI” – but that’s not what this story is about. This is a story about how agencies are losing what makes them agents – as in, putting the interests of their clients first. Ad agency holding companies are among the most adaptable businesses out there. In recent […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
Optimization Isn’t A Growth Strategy: The Leadership Decisions Hidden Behind Marketing Metrics
For senior leaders, marketing performance has rarely looked more measurable. Dashboards are cleaner, efficiency metrics are stable and optimization systems promise continuous improvement at scale. Yet many organizations are encountering a paradox: Performance appears strong, while durable growth remains elusive. Today, there’s a widening gap between what modern marketing systems are designed to optimize and […]
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Marketers
MyFitnessPal Wants To Start The Health And Wellness Subsector Of Retail Media
Amit Patel had been a longtime user of MyFitnessPal, a health and nutrition tracking app, before joining a year ago as CRO. One of the reasons he joined, Patel told AdExchanger, is that he felt there was “untapped potential” in the app’s approach to advertising. Fast-forward to today, and MyFitnessPal has just announced the launch […]
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AdExchanger Talks
Perion Is So Over The AI Hype Cycle
Perion CEO Tal Jacobson is more than a little sick of talking about AI as if it’s some brand-new innovation. The industry has been using similar techniques to steer ad spend for years, just under a different name. “You know, we’ve been doing AI for 15 years and we called it ‘machine learning,’” Jacobson says […]
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AI
NBCUniversal Is Launching An AI Version Of Andy Cohen (And Yes, It’ll Do Brand Sponsorship Deals)
Someday soon, marketers may be able to pay NBCUniversal to have an AI-generated approximation of “Real Housewives” executive producer Andy Cohen namedrop their brand to hundreds of thousands of fans.
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CTV Roundup
Are CAPIs The Next Phase Of Performance TV?
Netflix unveiled its own conversion API, which is meant to help marketers and media buyers prove their streaming campaigns are actually producing real business outcomes. The news is part of the rising trend of CAPIs becoming more popular in streaming advertising environments.
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