Brands Want To Know What LLMs Are Saying About Them, And This Startup Has Answers
Spotlight recently partnered with Cheil UK to help the agency give its clients better insights that they can use to stand out in AI search.
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Publisher Payment Plans; The Details Of Retail Data Deals
Meta’s AI vibes have been very different lately; times are tough for The Trade Desk; and fingerprinting has a bad reputation.
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Critics Say The Trade Desk Is Forcing Kokai Adoption, But Apparently It’s Up To Agencies
Is TTD forcing agencies to adopt the new Kokai interface despite claims they can still use the interface of their choice? Here’s what we were able to find out.
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More Than Just Brick And Mortar; Surfing The CPCs
Walmart’s CTV and DSP business shine in a meh Q2; plummeting search traffic is blowing up cost-per-click pricing; and TikTok annoys brands with its black box optimization.
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OPINION: On TV & VideoDon’t Break The Funnel: Why OLV Still Matters In A CTV-First World
The IAB Tech Lab video classification updates introduced much-needed clarity. But valuable inventory, now categorized differently, is being deprioritized or rejected, even though its performance hasn’t changed.
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Meta’s Latest Whistleblower Report; It’s QVC, But A Nightmare Dystopia
Former Meta employee files a complaint regarding the company’s illegal business practices; virtual AI salespeople are hosting 24/7 livestreams; and Google SPN advertisers will now receive a list of URLs where their ads appeared.
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The IAB Tech Lab Isn’t Pulling Any Punches In The Fight Against AI Scraping
IAB Tech Lab CEO Anthony Katsur didn’t mince his words when declaring unauthorized generative AI scraping of publisher content “theft, full stop.”
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Here’s Who’s Testifying During The Remedy Phase Of Google’s Ad Tech Antitrust Trial
Last week, the DOJ and Google filed their respective witness lists and the exhibit lists for the remedy phase of the ad tech antitrust trial. Lots of familiar faces!
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Extending An Invitation; LG Ads Gears Up For Its IPO
Web publishers are seeing revenue and traffic evaporate thanks to AI searches; LG Ads is finally preparing to go public; and women’s dating safety app Tea has some shady marketing practices.
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Walmart’s Brand-to-Seller Balance; For Everything Else, There’s WPP
Walmart has some new rules for third-party sellers; WPP wins Mastercard; and marketers should get into VTubers.
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Google Pulls The Plug On Topics, PAAPI And Other Major Privacy Sandbox APIs (As The CMA Says ‘Cheerio’)
Google’s aborted cookie crackdown ends with a quiet CMA sign-off and a sweeping phaseout of Privacy Sandbox technologies, from the Topics API to PAAPI.
The Trade Desk’s Auction Evolutions Bring High Drama To The Prebid Summit
TTD shared new details about OpenAds features that let publishers see for themselves whether it’s running a fair auction. But tension between TTD and Prebid hung over the event.
How Google Stands In The DOJ’s Ad Tech Antitrust Suit, According To Those Who Tracked The Trial
The remedies phase of the Google antitrust trial concluded last week. And after 11 days in the courtroom, there is a clearer sense of where Judge Leonie Brinkema is focused on, and how that might influence what remedies she put in place.
The Ad Context Protocol Aims To Make Sense Of Agentic Ad Demand
The AI advertising agents will need their own trade group eventually. For now though, a bunch of companies are forming the Ad Context Protocol, or AdCP.
OUTFRONT Is Using Agencies’ AI Enthusiasm To Spur Wider Programmatic OOH Adoption
The desire for a data-driven reinvention of OOH inspired OUTFRONT to create agentic AI tools for executing and measuring OOH campaigns and comparing OOH to other channels.
Inside PubDesk, The Trade Desk’s New Dashboard That Shows What Buyers Actually Care About
A peek inside PubDesk, The Trade Desk’s new dashboard that gives sellers detailed info on how buyers value their inventory.