David Smith is CEO of Mediasmith, a digital advertising media agency.
The biggest impact will be the increased credibility and volume to the Exchange category. It should also give a big boost to the technology platforms like Turn, MediaMath and Invite which agencies are increasingly using to combine exchange purchasing with targeting options.
Our concern remains one of brand protection. There is little in the release that indicates that they are even aware of the issue.
PubX has acquired media-quality startup Compliant and raised a $5 million Series A as it expands its agentic ad-buying platform into the US.
Warner Bros. Discovery has a new white paper analyzing the data and methodologies of five top video measurement providers: VideoAmp, iSpot, Comscore, Innovid and Samba.
Google and the Department of Justice filed the next round of paperwork that will determine what Google’s punishment will look like in the ad tech antitrust case.
Advertisers can now use Vistar to activate both off-the-shelf and custom audiences built on T-Mobile’s first-party location and app data.
Apple’s WebKit crackdown appears to extend well beyond The Trade Desk, putting hundreds of ad tech, data and identity vendors on a mysterious, dynamically updated block list.
Zoom has 99% unaided brand awareness, which sounds great on paper. But there’s a catch: Most people still think it’s just a video-call app.
