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AI agents are moving fast, but MadConnect says ad tech’s slow, messy plumbing still needs an overhaul before agentic marketing can really work.

Your TL;DR on MCP, the open standard that lets AI models connect to tools, remember context and run workflows across platforms.

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.

Ad spending across RMNs and CMNs is still hindered by incomplete data access and connectivity. Here’s how to bridge that gap.

There are two paths to transforming your business to capitalize on first-party-data-based advertising: mergers and acquisitions, or making nonrecurring investments. Here are the pros and cons of each.

The advertising and ad technology industries undergo a major landscape shift every five years or so, and we’re in the middle of a seismic change with third-party signal loss. As with every exploration and monetization of a new frontier, the next era of digital advertising requires a recommitment to shoulder-to-shoulder collaboration, writes Bob Walczak, CEO of MadTech Advisors.

Cookie deprecation is hanging over the media and advertising industry like a storm cloud. New identity solutions built on first-party data are clearly one solution, but publishers and advertisers differ on whether they’re building their own proprietary solution or a shared shelter that will scale – and explained why at AdMonsters’ Ops conference in New York City.

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Bob Walczak, CEO, MadTech Advisors.  The future is cookieless. This we all know. But the industry faces a long road ahead before cookieless audience targeting becomes the norm. Sure, context and cohort targeting provide […]

“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Bob Walczak, general manager of mobile and video at PubMatic. When it comes to publishers, premium is the operative word, a designation that, like VIP access to any major event, opens up a whole new […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Bob Walczak, general manager of mobile and video at PubMatic. For those of us in the digital advertising community, there has arguably been no development that has inspired so much […]

“Now Serving Mobile” is a column focused on the audience-buying opportunity in mobile advertising. Bob Walczak is VP Mobile Product at Pubmatic. Mobile is a massively fragmented market, making a simple action like delivering a static banner ad a fairly involved process today. At this point we have figured out the basics. When an ad […]