PODCAST: The Big Story
Prebid, Meet OpenAds
Shortly after Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green said the DSP would splinter off from Prebid, he showed up at the Prebid Summit. Then, at ScreenShift, we learn what the TV industry thinks about AI.
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CTV
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Everything You Want to Know About Being (And Working With) Media Buyers At Cynopsis Screenshift
What does it feel like to be a media buyer and planner in 2025? That question launched a fascinating “Ask Me Anything”-style discussion at Cynopsis ScreenShift in New York City on Tuesday.
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Scrapers Gonna Scrape; No More Fast-Forwarding The Ads, DVR Friends
Cloudflare restricts how bots can scrape content; TiVo’s customer base stays loyal, even as TiVo leaves the DVR business; and Nestlé announces a stark reduction in headcount.
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OUTFRONT Is Using Agencies’ AI Enthusiasm To Spur Wider Programmatic OOH Adoption
The desire for a data-driven reinvention of OOH inspired OUTFRONT to create agentic AI tools for executing and measuring OOH campaigns and comparing OOH to other channels.
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Agencies Swear The Tariff Recession Isn’t A Thing; Netflix Licenses Spotify Video Podcasts, Ads Included
Publicis celebrates as its growth aligns with the IAB’s downgraded ad spend projection; Spotify and Netflix partner to chase YouTube’s video podcast biz; and how investor cash keeps health data safe from advertisers.
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It’s Official: TiVo Is No Longer A DVR Company. What Now?
TiVo has officially halted the sale and manufacture of its once-revolutionary DVR products. Which raises the question: What does TiVo even do anymore, anyway?
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Mind The CTV Data Gap; TTD Tries Sponsored Listings
The Viant-Tubi integration offers new data insights; advertisers can buy sponsored product ads on Gopuff, thanks to TTD; and publishers continue to face traffic woes.
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People Inc. Cuts 6% Of Its Workforce
The layoffs reflect a strategic decision on People Inc.’s part to free up money to invest in growth areas, according to CEO Neil Vogel’s memo to employees.
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Who Knows A Platform Best?; Praying For A Fair Auction
Ask advertisers, not Meta, how best to use Meta’s ad platform; holdcos and big brands are pressuring Big Tech to self-regulate; and how data-driven animal husbandry is impacting marketing.
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CleanTap Says It Easily Fooled Programmatic Tech With Spoofed CTV Devices
CleanTap claims that 100% of the invalid traffic it spoofed was accepted into live auctions run by programmatic platforms and was successfully bid on by advertisers.
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For Publishers, AI Gives Monetizable Data Insight But Takes Away Traffic
Traffic-starved publishers are hopeful that their long-undervalued audience data will fuel advertising’s automated future – if only they can finally wrest control of the industry narrative away from ad tech middlemen.
Q3: The Trade Desk Delivers On Financials, But Is Its Vision Fact Or Fantasy?
The Trade Desk posted solid Q3 results on Thursday, with $739 million in revenue, up 18% year over year. But the main narrative for TTD this year is less about the numbers and more about optics and competitive dynamics.
IP Address Match Rates Are a Joke – And It’s No Laughing Matter
According to a new report, IP-to-email matches are accurate just 16% of the time on average, while IP-to-postal matches are accurate only 13% of the time. (Oof.)
The DOJ And Google Sharpen Their Remedy Proposals As The Two Sides Prepare For Closing Arguments
The phrase “caution is key” has become a totem of the new age in US antitrust regulation. It was cited this week by both the DOJ and Google in support of opposing views on a possible divestiture of Google’s sell-side ad exchange.
Alt Identity Provider ID5 Buys TrueData, Marking Its First-Ever Acquisition
ID5 bought TrueData mainly to tackle what ID5 CEO Mathieu Roche calls the “massive fragmentation” of digital identity, which is a problem on the user side and the provider side.
CTV Manufacturers Have A New Tool For Catching Spoofed Devices
The IAB Tech Lab’s new device attestation feature for its Open Measurement SDK provides a scaled way for original device manufacturers to confirm that ad impressions are associated with real devices.