OOH Is Getting New Rules For Categorizing Venues In Programmatic Buys
The OAAA’s new content taxonomy introduces new subcategories that OOH media owners can use to classify their inventory in OpenRTB bid requests.
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AI Made A Record Play During Super Bowl LIX
Putting aside Bad Bunny’s halftime show, AI companies stole the spotlight on Super Bowl Sunday, from Anthropic and OpenAI to Salesforce and Meta.
Alphabet Can Outgrow Everything Else, But Can It Outgrow Ads?
Describing Google’s revenue growth has become a problem, it so vastly outpaces the human capacity to understand large numbers and percentage growth rates. The company earned more than $113 billion in Q4 2025, and more than $400 billion in the past year.
BBC Studios Benchmarks Its Podcasts To See How They Really Stack Up
Triton Digital’s new tool lets publishers see how their audience size compares to other podcasts at the show and episode level.
People Inc. Says Who Needs Google?
People Inc. is offsetting a 50% decline in Google search traffic through off-platform growth and its highest digital revenue gains in five quarters.
The MRC Wants Ad Tech To Get Honest About How Auctions Really Work
The MRC’s auction transparency standards aren’t intended to force every programmatic platform to use the same auction playbook – but platforms do have to adopt some controversial OpenRTB specs to get certified.
Resellers Crackdowns Are A Good Thing, Right? Well, Maybe Not For Indie CTV Publishers
SSPs have mostly either applauded or downplayed the recent crackdown on CTV resellers, but smaller publishers see it as another revenue squeeze.
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The True Meaning of Holistic Media, With Carat’s Carrie Drinkwater
With so many video and digital media channels converging, is there even such a thing as a dedicated TV buyer anymore? Carat US Chief Investment Officer Carrie Drinkwater certainly doesn’t think so.
The Big Story
At the IAB Annual Leadership Meeting this week, IAB CEO David Cohen demanded publishers receive payment from AI companies who are taking their content. As publishers grapple with AI redirecting the attention they receive from consumers, what’s their path forward?