AdExchanger: Pie Contest

Gaming apps are filled with ads for more gaming apps. Why not other advertisers? We go inside AppLovin’s play to bring non-gaming advertisers into the fold.

AI can help make media buying more efficient. But it’ll take some more time before AI agents are a seamless part of the modern media buying process, says Goodway Group’s Andrea Kwiatek, director of strategic partnerships.

Pinterest expanded tvScientific CEO and Co-Founder Jason Fairchild’s title to general manager of programmatic and affiliate. The title upgrade comes less than a year after Pinterest acquired the performance-focused CTV ad startup.

Liftoff used its market debut to school investors on mobile ad tech – and make the case that travel, finance and shopping apps could be its next growth engine.

Liquid Death is all jokes and dark humor on the surface, but the canned water brand’s chief media and digital commerce officer, Benoit Vatere, takes measurement deadly seriously. He’s tackling one of the gnarliest problems in CPG: proving that media actually moves product off the shelves.

“Our revenue growth is below our expectations and below the standard we hold ourselves to,” The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green told investors.