Subtracting The Pluses; From Frenemies To Good Old Enemies
Apple TV is losing its plus; Agentic AI is ruining the ad tech equilibrium; and Google insists that search is still solid.
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Technology
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Who Knows A Platform Best?; Praying For A Fair Auction
Ask advertisers, not Meta, how best to use Meta’s ad platform; holdcos and big brands are pressuring Big Tech to self-regulate; and how data-driven animal husbandry is impacting marketing.
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OPINION: The Sell SiderStop Debating And Start Acting: A Unified Front Against AI Is Publishers’ Only Hope
Publishers must coalesce to gain a credible bargaining position and stop the bleeding caused by AI search. From there, we must put the processes in place to actually operate a licensing mechanism.
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingSearch Without Clicks: Rethinking Brand SEO In An AI-Fragmented Journey
ChatGPT and others continued the fragmentation of the search journey, which today hops between platforms and intents. The funnel no longer exists. Here’s how to pivot your brand’s SEO/GEO strategy.
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Judge Brinkema Has Had Enough Ad Tech, Thanks; The DSP Shop
Judge Leonie Brinkema is ready to be done with the DOJ v. Google saga; Amazon DSP comes out on top; and Mozilla brings programmatic ads to to the Firefox browser.
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HUMAN Expands Its IVT Detection Tool Kit With A New Product For Advertisers, Not Platforms
HUMAN has recently started complementing its bid request analysis by analyzing the time between when a bot clicks an ad and when the landing page loads. Now it’s offering the solution to individual advertisers.
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Index Exchange Launches A Data Marketplace For Sell-Side Curation
Through Index Exchange’s data vendor marketplace, curators gain access to third-party data sets without needing their own integrations.
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Everyone Knows How To Speak Money; Getting Over ‘Imbotster’ Syndrome
Duolingo now speaks the language of ad sales; marketers worry about writing like bots; and Microsoft is getting in on ad-supported platforms, too. Duolingo now speaks the language of ad sales; marketers worry about writing like bots; and Microsoft is getting in on ad-supported platforms, too.
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Can Publishers Trust The Trade Desk’s New Wrapper?
TTD says OpenAds is not just a reaction to Prebid’s TID change, but a new model for fairer, more transparent ad auctions. So what does the DSP need to do to get publishers to adopt its new auction wrapper?
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Putting UID2 Under the Legal Microscope
The Trade Desk is facing class-action lawsuits claiming its “privacy-safe” Unified ID 2.0 is really just repackaged cookie tracking.
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Advertisers, Join The Fun!; Finding Clarity In Discord
Law firms are targeting marketers for class action suits; Discord is trying to go mainstream; and ICE’s media presence is getting unavoidable.
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