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Expect more ad agency holdco consolidation in the next year; people are starting to talk like ChatGPT; inside the weirdness of matching political funds.

Google has agreed to pay $17 million to settle charges it dropped cookies on Safari Web browsers in defiance of the browser’s privacy settings. According to the settlement, from mid-2011 to early 2012, Google rejiggered DoubleClick coding to get around Apple’s default blocking of third-party cookies in Safari. When the charges were first publicized last […]

AppNexus can be a tough company to draw a bead on. First, it’s not public and so isn’t required to disclose revenues, profits, or cash on hand. Second, it functions as a marketplace intermediary, sitting between media buyer and seller, and sometimes between other intermediaries. As such it’s not directly measured by the likes of […]