Ad Tech
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Data-Driven Thinking
What Advertisers Need To Know About The FTC’s Shifting Priorities And Evolving Enforcement
Under the new leadership, the FTC is signaling a pivot away from sweeping rulemaking efforts to let Congress play that role. Instead, the agency will likely stay laser-focused on enforcement actions. Expect deceptive practices, fraud, consumer redress and select privacy concerns to take center stage. While the agency has historically looked to Congress for federal […]
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The Big Story
Ever-Elusive Transparency
CTV transparency remains a flashpoint between advertisers who want it and broadcasters who won’t provide it. Our special guest, Jounce Media’s Chris Kane, weighs in. Plus, we examine a persistent issue in ad tech: the chronic mislabeling of instream video.
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CTV Roundup
Nielsen’s Long-Awaited Measurement Offering Is Ready For The Upfronts
Nielsen told ad buyers that it plans to drop panel-only ratings later this year. The decision signals an inflection point in media measurement that publishers and buyers have both been waiting for.
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Online Advertising
CTV, Retail And Measurement Will Spur Ad Tech M&A This Year
This year, expect ad tech consolidation to center on the biggest growth opportunities in advertising: retail media, connected TV and addressing the gaps in measurement.
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Data-Driven Thinking
The Hidden Dangers Of Privacy-Preserving Attribution – And A Smarter Solution
Meta and Mozilla have proposed a new browser-based attribution system for web ads that they’re calling Privacy-Preserving Attribution. The goal is to track how advertising leads to conversion with less privacy risk to users. Unfortunately, while PPA appears to solve an interesting math problem, if applied to real-world advertising, it will increase privacy risks for […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
Why – And What – Marketers Need To Know About AI Agents
Who would you hire if you were picking your marketing team from scratch? Team members that carefully strategize their work ahead of time, proactively collaborate and know when to look for external help to achieve the objective, with the right level of autonomy? If this sounds good, then you will love AI agents. And they […]
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CTV Roundup
Atmosphere TV Is Capitalizing On The “Sorta CTV” Trend
In light of T-Mobile’s plans to buy Vistar Media, Atmosphere TV’s business model shines a brighter spotlight on the grey area between connected TV and DOOH billboards.
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The Big Story
TikTok On The Clock
TikTok was granted a 75-day stay of execution this week. We discuss what’s next for the social media platform, why it was classified as a threat to national security and how advertisers are responding.
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Data-Driven Thinking
Brands Have A Right To Control The Ad Placements Around Political Content
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan recently initiated investigations into the World Federation of Advertisers, the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, advertisers and agency holding companies based on concerns that brands are not advertising on conservative social media platforms like X. Jordan has also opened an inquiry into the merger of Omnicom and IPG based […]
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Online Advertising
People Managing Google Ad Campaigns Are Getting Their Accounts Seized By Scammers
Multiple different criminal rings around the world are orchestrating surgical phishing scams that target ad industry media buyers. Specifically, fraudsters are duping ad buyers who log into Google Ads after running a Google search. The scammers serve fraudulent sponsored search links to these ad executives, and then hack into their accounts and use their funds […]
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