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Comic: Retail Media Walled Gardeners
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Amazon Faces An Easy Boycott But An Existential Question
The Amazon advertising boycott last week wasn’t really about Amazon’s ad platform as much as it was a dispute over evolving seller economics. And this raises a fundamental question for many ecommerce marketers and entrepreneurs, one that’s been lurking in the back of their minds: Can you even build a brand on Amazon anymore?
Unity And Index Exchange Unite Behind Gaming Data In Non-Gaming Channels
For the first time, Unity’s gaming audiences will be available for ad targeting outside the Unity platform, with Index Exchange using Unity’s data to curate web and CTV inventory.
Brand-Trained Agents Can Give Marketers A Fuller View Of Their Customers
Agentic commerce company Envive builds on-site agents for brands like footwear company Clove, painting a clearer picture of what their customers are looking for.
Don’t Worry About Netflix – It’s Doing Fine Without Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount might have outlasted and outbid Netflix in the competition to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, but Netflix is not overly fussed about the loss.
Paramount’s Upfront Pitch Is About Three Things
Paramount is merging the ad tech stacks behind Paramount+ and Pluto TV, releasing a new performance product, offering more control over ad placements and introducing dynamic ad insertion in live sports.
Hard Truths For Retail Media At The IAB Connected Commerce Summit
The IAB’s Connected Commerce event in New York City this week felt to me like the retail media industry’s first sit-down explanation to a child who is now a “big kid” and must act accordingly.
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OPINION: On TV & VideoWhy CTV Is Becoming The First Real Test Of Agentic Advertising
CTV never fit cleanly into campaign execution models built for RTB-based trading. Whether agentic AI solutions can simplify the complicated CTV landscape for publishers will be their first real test case.
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Liquid Death Lets Incrementality Decide What Tactics To Kill And What To Keep
Behind its edgy marketing, Liquid Death faces a familiar CPG problem: Most sales happen at the register, where media measurement goes to die.
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The Tech Lab’s New Programmatic Governance Council Is So Over All The Ad Tech Drama
A new IAB Tech Lab group is working on ground rules for the very unruly $200 billion programmatic ad market. Godspeed!
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Why A 1967 Privacy Law Is Powering A New Wave Of Ad Tech Lawsuits
If you want to see a privacy lawyer who works in ad tech roll their eyes and heave a deep sigh, then speak aloud this acronym: “CIPA.”
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingWhat Happens When The Attribution Cartel Meets Advertising’s Halo Effect?
A proposed standard under discussion at W3C aims to redefine how ad effectiveness is measured across the web. This proposal would centralize measurement of ad effectiveness under the control of Google, Apple and Meta.