Publicly Funded Social Media Roads; Good SSPs Get Treats
Would the internet be a better place if it weren’t run by billionaires? Plus, more brands are cutting out the ad tech middlemen.
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User Agents Or Double Agents?; Agencies, The Agents Of Arbitrage
In today’s newsletter: The “user agent” concept is dead; principal-based buying is just arbitrage by another name; and a deep dive into BuzzFeed’s doomed acquisition of Complex.
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The Trade Desk Tests Its Agency Legacy; Google’s Agency Relationships Change, Too
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trade Punches In 2016, The Trade Desk cracked open the DSP market by sticking with agencies. DSPs such as Turn and TubeMogul attempted to go brand-direct but were dropped by agencies and AppNexus, the top dog DSP at the time, refashioned itself as […]