Comic: Not-So-Secret Sauce

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.

On Thursday, Nielsen entered into a definitive agreement to acquire DoubleVerify in an all cash transaction valued at approximately $2.15 billion.

Warner Bros. Discovery cited softer ad sales growth and the continued decline of linear TV as its reasons for missing investor expectations in Q2. Unsurprisingly, streaming ads are the biggest bright spot on WBD’s earnings report card.