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When The Trade Desk sneezes, ad tech catches a cold.

The Trade Desk continued its shaky 2025 earnings schedule when it reported Q2 results on Thursday.

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The Trade Desk on Thursday announced its first native app built for use with a separate cloud or data warehouse. It’s called the Connector App on Snowflake.

The Trade Desk is adding a new retail tool to its data marketplace toolkit – or a new element to its periodic table, if you will.

For The Trade Desk, about 90% of campaigns using structured deal IDs via private marketplaces don’t scale at all. Fixing this frustrating deal ID failure rate was the impetus for a new product called Deal Desk.

The Trade Desk released OpenSincera on Tuesday, a free API integration that posts ad impression data on publishers and tech vendors.

If you felt a strange gust around 5 p.m. ET on Thursday, it was probably just the cumulative sighs of relief across Wall Street as The Trade Desk shook off its Q4 blues with a better-than-expected first quarter earnings report.

It’s knives out for The Trade Desk’s take rate as competitors slash the demand side’s margin and pile on the incumbent during a moment of rare vulnerability.