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Data-Driven Thinking
Why Amazon Is Gaining Ground In CTV And The Trade Desk Is Losing Its Lead
CTV advertising is booming, with the channel growing by 13% in 2025 to $26.6 billion and projected to hit $51 billion by 2029. In this environment, you’d expect to see sustained overperformance from The Trade Desk, a CTV aggregator with video representing a high-40s percentage of its business. But for some time now, TTD has […]
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Dstillery Has A New Agentic AI Interface For Refining Audiences Faster
DS-1, a new agentic AI interface developed by audience platform Dstillery, aims to reduce manual inefficiencies within audience curation.
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The Trade Desk Welcomes OpenTTD, The Partner Integration Portal To Rule Them All
Add another “Open” to the list. The Trade Desk has OpenPath, OpenAds, OpenSincera and, as of today, a new platform portal called OpenTTD. The OpenTTD product, which will be announced by the DSP during LiveRamp’s RampUp conference in San Francisco later this morning, creates a single login and integrated analytics for companies that span different […]
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AdExchanger Awards
The AdExchanger Awards celebrates excellence in digital marketing and advertising.
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Data-Driven Thinking
Why Binary Audience Decisions Aren’t Fit For The Agentic Era
Every era of advertising has been defined by the moment its infrastructure became the bottleneck. In the late 1990s, the bottleneck was the fax machine. Media buyers negotiated insertion orders over phone calls, signed paper contracts and waited days to confirm a campaign was live. The industry did not abandon that process because it was […]
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The Big Story
Feeding A DSP With Shopper Data
The strategic value of commerce data continues to rise, as Infillion snaps up Catalina. Then, a court filing reveals where agencies spend clients’ money.
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CTV Roundup
Horizon Media’s David Campanelli Shares His Strategy For Breaking Down Media Silos
Who says TV is the only media channel that could benefit from converged buying?
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WPP Braces For Big Change, As New CEO Cindy Rose Says It Will Ditch The Holdco Label
During Thursday’s earnings call, CEO Cindy Rose announced a new plan to reposition WPP as a single company, rather than an agency holdco.
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The Trade Desk Faces Headwinds As Investors Reconsider The Thesis Of Objective Indie Ad Tech
The Trade Desk, a longtime darling of Wall Street and programmatic, is back at square one in terms of convincing investors of the value of an independent DSP and kindling goodwill in the ad tech industry. The company reported Q4 and full-year 2025 earnings on Wednesday. TTD’s revenue grew 14% year over year to $847 […]
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AdExchanger Talks
From Avoiding Bad Ads To Demanding ROI
Ad verification used to be mostly about keeping brands away from the bad stuff. Now, verification providers have to prove that quality actually moves the needle, says Integral Ad Science CEO Lisa Utzschneider.
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