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By partnering with GrowthLoop, GoPuff has beefed up its retail media offering with more specific audience targeting.

There’s a lot of healthcare data out there. The challenge is knowing how to access and make use of it while complying with privacy regulations.

Performance CTV tech company Keynes launched an AI-powered platform. Tuckernuck says it can finally “pop open the hood” and see what’s working.

Snap is trying to combine multiple views of performance with its new attribution product, which unifies Snap data with data from mobile measurement partners.

TikTok announces a wide array of new tools for advertisers, and they all have one thing in common: a focus on building its ecommerce business.

Magnite posted strong Q1 numbers and is confident that it will prevail in its battles with both Google and The Trade Desk.

Generative AI search has pushed traffic off a cliff across most of the internet, but not on social platforms. Reddit included.

Meta’s Q1 call sounded like an AI and hardware pitch, but under the hood it was still about one thing: investing in AI to squeeze more money out of its ads business.

Meta is simplifying its CAPI setup and teaching its pixel new tricks, including adding an AI-powered feature that automatically pulls in data from an advertiser’s website.

Not unlike last year, the mood during TikTok’s NewFronts presentation last week felt like cautious optimism, if not outright relief.

Can a good sales presentation offset the impact of a very bad news week? That’s a question for Meta, which collected two guilty verdicts in court this week for failing to protect children and creating additive products.

Brave’s chief of ads Jean-Paul Schmetz on competition in the search and browser markets, the fallout from the Google Search antitrust ruling and whether AI search will help smaller upstarts compete with Big Tech.

Google is getting to talk about its two favorite things during IAB’s NewFronts this week: AI and creators.

The deal is an example of OOH platforms building sales infrastructure that interoperates with agency workflows. It’s also an example of DSPs going direct to publishers.

Reddit reported on Thursday $690 million in ad revenue for Q4 2025, a 75% YOY increase. But the company’s stock is down 38% over the past month.

On stage at the IAB’s Annual Leadership Meeting, IAB CEO David Cohen tore into AI companies, accusing them of “free riding” on publishers’ work – and calling it “stealing.”

To those who knew him, John “JG” Gentry wasn’t just a CEO. He was a colleague who showed up with genuine care and curiosity.

Meta is channeling its booming ad revenue into a $135 billion AI drive to power its “personal superintelligence” future.

AirOps’ new Page360 platform helps brands update their content to better perform across traditional search, AI search and online forums.

Alphonso’s founders lobbed yet another lawsuit at LG Electronics – this one seeking up to $4.5 billion in damages – over claims the company sabotaged their IPO, diverted profits and unfairly diluted their stake.

Adswerve recently developed a custom bidding script to help Betterment generate more conversions from its leads.

OpenX’s new API suite provides ad buyers with a more detailed view of the bidstream and, as a result, more accurate targeting.

Who bought what and why this year? Here’s a (mostly) comprehensive list of all the notable ad tech, agency and digital content deals of 2025.

The Trade Desk is cutting its workforce. A company spokesperson confirmed the news with AdExchanger. The layoffs affect less than 1% of the company.

Fluency plans to invest its new funding into AI and engineering to bring more automation into the platform.

On Tuesday, Infillion launched fully agentic media execution platform built on MCP, marking a shift from the programmatic to the agentic era.

Spencer has exited The Trade Desk after 12 years, marking another major leadership change amid friction with ad tech trade groups and intensifying competition across the DSP landscape.

Two sources at ad tech platforms that observe programmatic bidding patterns said they’ve seen Omnicom agencies shifting spend from The Trade Desk to Amazon DSP in Q3. The Trade Desk denies any such shift.

With its latest funding, Agentio plans to expand its team and to establish creator marketing as part of every advertiser’s media plan.

The IAB Tech Lab’s latest framework proposes new standards for containerization and sets the stage for a fully agentic media buying process.