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Nubai Ventures Sues Outbrain, Claiming Its Traffic Is Riddled With Bots

Nubai claims that if buyers don’t shell out for premium placements like on CNN and Fox News, Outbrain instead places their links on less-reputable sites that have been found to attract a high degree of sophisticated invalid traffic – aka bots.

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Joel Meyer, Chairman, Prebid.org

New Chairman Joel Meyer Dishes On Prebid’s Reset For The Agentic Ad Tech Era

OpenX CTO Joel Meyer, who was named Prebid’s new chairman, previews the org’s next phase and helping publishers navigate competing agentic protocols.

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After Years Of Fighting LGE, Alphonso Is Headed For An IPO – Unless Comcast Or The Koch Brothers Get There First

Alphonso – LG’s ad tech division – finally has a way out of its legal drama with parent company LG Electronics. Actually, it has three potential options.

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Micro1 Wants Human Domain Experts To Profit From AI And LLMs

Much like the ecosystem of life that surrounds a blue whale, a market of AI SaaS vendors is springing up around the biggest AI companies. And AI data startup Micro1 is emblematic of the shifting nature of these early-stage AI vendors.

How Programmatic Home Screen Ads Are Becoming More Standardized (And More Accessible)

How long does it take you to decide what to watch after you turn your TV on?

Nielsen’s Latest Updates Aim To Remove Bias From Its Measurement Strategy

Just in time for new TV programming to hit the screens in September, Nielsen is rolling out a few upgrades to its video measurement currency that will go live by the end of August

The Agency Black Box Is Breaking. Horizon Media’s Bob Lord Explains Why

According to Horizon Media’s Bob Lord, most agencies are trying to solve the wrong problem by obsessing over cost efficiency at a time when AI has quietly unlocked something far more valuable: the ability to become a growth partner to advertisers.

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Programmatic Gets An Agentic Brain

Agentic AI just ran a CTV campaign end-to-end through a new, agent-driven buying workflow with far less manual optimization and a lot less waste. Butler/Till’s Scott Ensign explains what that means for the future of programmatic.

The Big Story

Bridging The World Of TV And Ad Tech

Senior editors Victoria McNally and Alyssa Boyle chat about why ad tech insiders should learn more about the larger TV media industry (via our sister brand Cynopsis!), and what’s new in the world of home screen ads.