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Microsoft Is Shutting Down Invest, The One-Time AppNexus DSP Business

Microsoft Invest – formerly Xandr DSP and formerly AppNexus before that – will soon just be formerly, full stop. On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that it will shut down Microsoft Invest by March next year. The DSP will be replaced by a chatbot-style ad-buying product powered by Copilot, Microsoft’s generative AI solution. However, the change only applies […]

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The Force Of Data Gravity, With Snowflake

Why bring data to SaaS applications when you can bring the applications to your data? That’s what modern data platforms do, says Erin Foxworthy, global industry go-to-market lead for marketers and advertisers at Snowflake. Cloud-based platforms, meanwhile, are becoming the foundation for technologies that are increasingly integral to how digital advertising functions.

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Online Advertising

Sincera Offers A Free API For Some Of Its Prized Metrics

The ad industry speculated a great deal about how The Trade Desk might put Sincera to use after its acquisition of the ad metadata and analytics startup in January. We now have one indication of how Sincera will be put to use. TTD publicly announced OpenSincera on Tuesday. The free API integration posts ad impression […]

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AI

Amazon Is Bringing Contextual, AI-Generated Pause Ads To Prime Video

Contextually relevant pause ads were just one of three new formats that Amazon unveiled in advance of its Upfronts presentation on Monday.

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Marketers

AI Will Replace Marketing Jobs As CMO Budgets Stagnate, Says Gartner

It’s official: AI is coming for marketing jobs. CMOs’ ad budgets are flat this year compared to last year, according to Gartner’s annual CMO Spend Survey. Fifty-nine percent of CMOs said they don’t have enough budget to execute their strategy this year. Overall, brand marketing budgets will average 7.7% of company revenue in 2025, the […]

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CTV Roundup

This Year’s Big NewFronts Trends: Interactive Ads, Programmatic Possibilities

Instead of simply watching ads on the big screen, consumers are now being encouraged to interact with those ads – a shift in marketing that was particularly apparent at the 2025 NewFronts presentations in New York City this week.

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Online Advertising

The Trade Desk Returns To Form With A Strong Q1 Earnings Report

If you felt a strange gust around 5 pm ET on Thursday, it was probably the cumulative sighs of relief across Wall Street as The Trade Desk shook off its Q4 blues with a better-than-expected first quarter earnings report. In February, when TTD reported a bad miss on Q4 revenue, its shares plummeted by one-third, […]

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The Big Story

The CTV DSP

Does a connected TV DSP need lower take rates? Inside the battle among DSP’s to take on The Trade Desk’s dominant market position. Plus: an on-the-ground report from the TV Newfronts.

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Data-Driven Thinking

Rethinking Brand Safety In The Age Of Compulsive Media Experiences

The reason why TikTok will likely never face a full ban is also the strongest argument for why it should: It’s simply too effective at capturing attention. Beyond issues of geopolitical surveillance and data privacy lies a deeper, less-discussed concern: the quality of the attention platforms like TikTok capture and the methods used to capture […]

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The Behavioral Economist’s POV On Marketing Measurement

Marketing measurement is messed up – it’s hard to argue otherwise – and most people agree on the reasons why: vanity metrics, imperfect models, unrealistic expectations. But there’s another issue at play, argues Julian Runge, an assistant professor of marketing at Northwestern University – and that’s a simple lack of communication.

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