A New Bill Targets ‘Bad Bots’ That Scrape Websites Without Permission
The newly introduced Stealth Bot Prohibition Act would prevent AI stealth crawlers from hiding their identities and illicitly scraping web content.
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The Trade Desk’s Revenue Growth Stalls As Big Brands Tighten Their Belts
“Our revenue growth is below our expectations and below the standard we hold ourselves to,” The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green told investors.
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AppLovin Asks For Patience As It Grows Its Ecommerce And Consumer Ads Business
“We’re deemed a new bucket, so a testing category,” AppLovin CEO told investors regarding its nascent consumer and ecommerce ads business. “And to graduate up takes time. This stuff compounds over quarters and years.”
Magnite Doesn’t Want To Be A DSP. It Just Wants To Own The Decisioning Layer
On Wednesday, Magnite CEO Michael Barrett painted a picture of a company that’s edging into the buy side by adding more DSP-style capabilities for planning and activation.
For Cuisinart, AI-Generated Ads Are As Handy As A Kitchen Blender
Cuisinart’s marketing team has been eager to take advantage of generative AI-based creative.
Paramount Skydance Insists The WBD Merger Will Be Good For The Media And Ad Industry
During Paramount Skydance’s Q2 earnings call, CEO David Ellison limited his remarks to a two-minute monologue about the company’s confidence in the intended merger.
AI Agents Are Giving Publishers A New Way To Monetize Their Data
Here’s how PubMatic and Optable are using AI to help publishers turn first-party data into new ad deals and reach more buyers.
Sweetgreen Tapped Atmosphere TV To Introduce World Cup Viewers To Its Wraps
Sweetgreen turned the World Cup into a marketing moment for its new wraps, running video ads in public viewing spaces through Atmosphere TV.
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Chalice AI’s COO and co-founder, Ali Manning, explains how the AI startup – don’t call it a custom algorithm company – is helping brands like Bayer use advertiser-specific bidding models to drive real outcomes as opposed to poor proxies.
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The Opportunity and Threat Of Google Buyer Direct
AI agents could replace direct sales. And a beta product tied to Google’s ad server, dubbed Buyer Direct, could solve this problem better than anyone else, according to our guest Gareth Glaser, co-founder of Gamera and co-host of the podcast Ad Tech Ad Talk.