TTD confirmed that this publisher’s errors would have made its UID2s useless for ad targeting. But TTD also said it wouldn’t have had enough information to flag anything wrong.
Criteo shares dropped by 20% Wednesday morning after the company reported shaky Q1 earnings and revised its guidance downward for the rest of the year.
On Wednesday, Josh D’Amaro led his first earnings call as the new CEO of Disney. The company closed last quarter with $25.2 billion in revenue, a 7% year-over-year increase. Disney Entertainment advertising revenue rose 5% YOY, but ESPN ad revenue was down 2% YOY, although subscription and affiliate revenue was up 6%.
People Inc. previewed plans to downsize by focusing mainly on its key properties. The strategy makes sense considering its publishing portfolio has lost about two-thirds of its Google traffic.
At POSSIBLE 2026 in Miami, the ad industry was over the hype around AI.
OpenAI announced a CAPI, along with the public launch of its self-serve ads manager, as the latest features of its rapidly evolving ads business.
Paramount Skydance’s planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is proceeding apace. It expects to finalize the deal by the end of Q3.
Manscaped’s Whole‑Body Media Strategy
Behind the scenes with Manscaped CMO Marcelo Kertész on the brand’s first Super Bowl spot – a musical ad starring singing hair balls (just watch it) – and how he’s shifting Manscaped’s marketing from performance-heavy DTC to a broader, brand-led strategy.
Take your sunglasses off for this one. Fresh off the POSSIBLE conference in Miami, our reporters debrief on how the marketing industry addressed the subject du jour: AI. Plus: the topics that were conspicuously absent from the conference.
