Ad Tech
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Data-Driven Thinking
Why Meta’s Exit From MRC Audits Should Be A Wake-Up Call For Marketers
Meta’s decision to withdraw from the Media Rating Council’s brand-safety audits and its subsequent loss of accreditation have sparked important questions for advertisers that depend on transparency and accountability to protect their brands online. When one of the world’s largest advertising platforms steps away from independent verification, it’s a reminder of how critical third-party accountability […]
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AdExchanger Talks
The Legal Analyst In Google’s Corner
Welcome to “remedy-palooza.” While that specific term may not take off, it’s not a bad way to describe the vibe right now. We recently got a final remedy decision in the DOJ v. Google Search antitrust case and we’re in the midst of the remedies trial phase of the DOJ v. Google publisher ad tech […]
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AI
How Agentic Advertising Platform Aimy Uses Comcast’s Universal Ads API
On Monday, Brand Networks announced that Universal Ads would now be buyable through the company’s agentic ad buying platform, Aimy Ads.
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Data-Driven Thinking
Why Your First AdCP Project Is Probably Going To Fail
Ad Context Protocol (AdCP) is being sold as a magic bullet. But let’s be honest: Your first AdCP project is probably going to fail. It won’t fail because the protocol is bad; it will fail because you’ve been sold a simplistic dream – a “universal API” for ad tech – and that’s what you’re budgeting […]
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The Big Story
The Power of Prebid
With its wide adoption and independent membership, Prebid is powerful. We discuss Transaction IDs and the remedies phase of the antitrust trial with those inside and outside the org to better understand this open-source project.
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CTV Roundup
Locality Wants Every Ad To Hit Close to Home
Ignoring the fact that early pioneers in the space didn’t plan to have ads in the first place (looking at you, Netflix!), even with targeting and personalization, most major players are still thinking of national reach – not local reach – as their default.
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AdExchanger Talks
Why Medium Said No To Easy Ad Money
Tony Stubblebine became CEO of Medium in 2022 and turned the struggling, loss-making platform profitable by cutting costs, improving content quality and refusing to rely on advertising.
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AI
When Buyers And Sellers Actually Talk To Each Other, Campaigns Run Better (Who Would’ve Thought?)
A DSP, an SSP, an agency and a publisher walk into a room. Believe it or not, that isn’t the lead-in to a bad joke. It’s the model used by Medialive, a new AI startup that brings media buyers, sellers and vendors together to collaborate directly in a shared (digital) space. Joe Prusz, former CRO […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
AdCP And The Math Of Agentic AI: Building For Today’s Economics, Not Tomorrow’s Dreams
While the promise of agentic AI in advertising is intoxicating, autonomous systems optimizing campaigns and making real-time adjustments still face a sobering reality: The economics don’t work for everything – yet. Let’s look beyond the generalized AI hype to a more actionable and immediate trend: using Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its advertising-focused cousin, Ad […]
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CTV Roundup
High School Football Can Have Streaming Ads, Too, Thanks To Platforms Like Hudl
High school sports are very different now than when I was a teenager. As is the case with basically all forms of modern entertainment, they’ve faced some disruption by the rise of streaming video – as well as the ads that often follow.
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