CTV Has Trust Issues
CTV sellers are promising measurable outcomes – even guaranteed store visits – but winning advertiser trust takes more than just measurement.
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Google Will Now Tell You Exactly How Much It’s Crediting You For Invalid Traffic
For the first time, a new feature in Google Ads breaks down the dollar amount a campaign saved from IVT blocking and exactly how much Google is crediting the campaign for bots caught post-billing.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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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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AI Creative In The Programmatic Loop
The latest bolt-on to a DSP isn’t solving for media or measurement – it’s AI-generated creative. Inside the Viant-Waymark acquisition. Plus: CEO Jeff Green said The Trade Desk is open to M&A. So what kind of company could The Trade Desk buy?