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Tim Vanderhook, CEO and co-founder, Viant

Viant’s Vanderhook Brothers Want To Make Your Next CTV Ad

Tim and Chris Vanderhook explain why Viant bought Waymark and how it fits into their ambitious plans for CTV.

Comic: Revenue "Sharing" (starring Marck Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai)

Custom Ad Algorithms Are Helping Schibsted Media Win Budgets Back From Meta

Schibsted is working with Nodals AI, a company that creates custom ad optimization algorithms for publishers, to court brands who’ve been wooed by Meta’s own optimization tools.

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WPP Media’s Angela Steele On AI, CTV And The ‘Trusted Growth Partner’ Pitch

AI is taking over the media and tech industries in the name of simplification, and marketers are pining for provable campaign outcomes, including from TV. These shifts are also causing significant change in Agency Holdco Land, according to Angela Steele, the first chief client officer for WPP Media US.

Shopify Noses Further Into Ad Tech With Campaign Autopilot Expansion

No major retail media player has taken as circumspect an approach to ad revenue as Shopify. But the company has recently taken its next important step with a product called Campaign Autopilot.

Benji Shomair, VP of monetization, OpenAI & Terry Kawaja, CEO, LUMA Partners (photo credit: Jenna Bascom Photography / LUMA Partners)

In OpenAI’s Ad Business, Advertisers Come Third

OpenAI’s head of monetization, Benji Shomair makes the case for ads as a way to bring ChatGPT to more people, with user trust taking priority over advertiser demands.

The Trade Desk’s Revenue Slipped In Q3. If It Wants To Grow, It Must Evolve

In Q3, The Trade Desk beat the admittedly pessimistic revenue forecast it set for itself earlier this year. But growth has stalled.

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Stop Buying Lemons, With SWYM.ai

DSPs only see a fraction of available ad supply, and SSPs have no idea which impressions actually drive results, says SWYM.ai CEO Ravi Patel. That’s how buyers end up paying again and again for low-performing inventory. But it’s time to break the cycle.

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Will The Blue Wave Midterms Put A Damper On Ad Tech M&A?

Why the midterms may not spell doom for ad tech consolidation. Plus, how sports leagues are putting ad revenue before player safety.