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

Communications leaders are reshaping the C-suite; Executive turnover continues at The Trade Desk; TikTok Shop earns dedicated RFP budgets.

In Connected TV Ad Land, proving performance is the priority for video advertisers. To drive more demonstrable reach and results, publishers are trying to expand their reach while wringing more data and AI features into their offerings. 

Connected TV has entered a new phase.

For years, the channel was primarily a reach vehicle, a way to follow audiences as viewing shifted from linear TV to streaming. That migration has reached critical mass. Audiences are engaged across CTV, and advertiser dollars are following. According to eMarketer, US CTV ad spending is projected to reach $53.42 billion, reflecting continued double-digit growth as streaming outpaces linear TV.

Nowadays, programmatic vendors, and SSPs in particular, are carving new paths of differentiation based on their type of adoption of cloud infrastructure.

The pitch for dynamic take rates is reasonable. Total volume goes up, and the publisher sees more impressions clearing. But the problem is where the extra volume comes from. 

YouTube’s remix tool sparks creator concerns; AI fuels World Cup ticket scams; Anthropic warns AI is moving too fast.

As performance takes center-stage in more advertising discussions, demands to solve fragmentation and cruddy measurement are reaching a fever pitch.

A word of caution to digital advertising companies, as they go all in on AI algorithms: They need to build these solutions with ownership, governance and accountability from the start – or AI could sink them with a single mistake.

To squeeze the most juice out of their live sports campaigns, many marketers are adopting programmatic buying and marketing mix modeling, both of which are also drawing more advertisers to the digital live sports cornucopia.

Enjoy this weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem … 

ChatGPT’s ad partners roll out incentives; Google introduces gen AI performance reports within the Search Console

Liftoff’s COO explains why the company hit pause on its first IPO attempt, what changed in the market and why ad tech is already proving AI’s value at scale.

Roblox is making its under-13 audience available to advertisers for the first time. And it named youth-focused ad marketplace SuperAwesome as its exclusive advertising partner for under-13 users.

The W3C’s proposed “Attribution Level 1” browser standard deserves far more scrutiny from the advertising and measurement community than it has so far received.

Search and web traffic is getting replaced by AI, so earned media placements don’t quite look the same. Plus: More scrutiny on principal media.

Prebid is turning the page on what might be called its second chapter as the organization navigates some major changes in the digital advertising landscape and within its own ranks.

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.

Verizon Value President David “DK” Kim digs into the lingering stigma around prepaid wireless – and how reframing customers as “prepaid by need” versus “prepaid by choice” changes the way Verizon markets and measures its eight-brand portfolio of prepaid plans.

Media fragmentation means marketers need better targeting strategies and data. AHS partnered with Audigent to improve its segmentation and targeting.

Amazon has third parties selling some of its ad inventory; Scope3 selling Adloox to Peer39 suggests sustainability is out; and “fabric” is the new AI-related buzzword for ad tech.

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

Meet Termzy AI, a browser extension that uses DeepSeek’s LLM to analyze and summarize online contracts and surface the most important clauses.

The real AI risk in digital advertising isn’t automation, it’s autonomous decision-making without clear accountability and sufficient oversight.

Meta AI is opening the door for hackers; Does performance marketing work for luxury brands?; and advertisers still don’t trust their agencies much.

Over the past few years, driven primarily by AI adoption, there has been a truly radical change to how quickly and easily brands will abandon old standards of quality ­– or even decency – in the name of performance.

ROAS who? Martinelli’s is testing how crisp its retail media spend really is by using a new metric called incremental ROAS.

The programmatic intelligence layer is owned by the same parties that are extracting margin from it. That structure is now being dismantled by an AI-underpinned protocol that moves the intelligence layer into the open.

TrumpRX might be collecting your medical data; Snowflake is trying to get into the AI content licensing game; and travel marketers are feeling the inflation squeeze.

Amazon Publisher Services released a host of tools, such as Signal IQ, to help publishers see which bidstream signals drive demand. Pinpointing which signals drive higher revenue is key for publishers.