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Pinterest Names Jason Fairchild GM Of Programmatic And Affiliate

Pinterest expanded tvScientific CEO and Co-Founder Jason Fairchild’s title to general manager of programmatic and affiliate. The title upgrade comes less than a year after Pinterest acquired the performance-focused CTV ad startup.

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Marketers

AppLovin Wants To Persuade The World That Its Ad Platform Is The Real Deal

Two years ago, AppLovin launched an ecommerce beta program to bring in non-gaming advertisers. Now it’s launched a consumer ads segment with ambitions to take on the Big Tech platforms.

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Data-Driven Thinking

Walmart’s Wall: Will The Vibe Deal Make It Meta, Or Another AOL?

Build a wall around the right property, and people will line up to get inside. Build one around the wrong property, and eventually you’re the person asking if anyone remembers their AOL password. Meta is the clean success case. For all the industry’s complaints about opacity, Meta became a walled garden marketers could not ignore […]

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AdExchanger Talks

Murder Your Thirst And Measure Everything

Liquid Death is all jokes and dark humor on the surface, but the canned water brand’s chief media and digital commerce officer, Benoit Vatere, takes measurement deadly seriously. He’s tackling one of the gnarliest problems in CPG: proving that media actually moves product off the shelves.

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Data-Driven Thinking

Ad Tech’s Trust Problem Isn’t Going Away. We Just Stopped Talking About It

I’ve spent over 25 years in this industry, and I’ve staked the last eight of them on a simple bet: a business rooted in responsible practices isn’t at odds with commercial success. It’s hard for me to watch what’s happening right now and stay quiet. Hims & Hers built its business on patients trusting it […]

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CTV World 2027

CTV World is where the worlds of linear TV, streaming, CTV, gaming, retail media, and digital out-of-home come together. Audiences no longer live in silos, and neither can marketers. This event brings together brands, agencies, publishers, networks, and tech leaders to tackle the challenges of measurement, attribution, and cross-screen storytelling—while showcasing the innovations driving the […]

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AI

A New Bill Targets ‘Bad Bots’ That Scrape Websites Without Permission

Some political issues don’t become mainstream talking points, but that doesn’t make them any less urgent. They’re more like “hygiene [and] vegetables,” quipped Danielle Coffey, president and CEO of the News/Media Alliance, as in, a little unglamorous, but crucial for a healthy body. Or, in this case, a healthy content marketplace. In late July, three […]

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Data-Driven Thinking

Ad Tech’s Last Neutral Party Just Picked A Side

When Publicis Groupe announced its $2.167 billion acquisition of LiveRamp, the industry found itself asking a question it had never had to ask before. LiveRamp wasn’t one identity vendor among many. It was the connective tissue letting competing agencies, brands and platforms move data and identity across each other’s walled gardens, on the understanding that […]

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The Big Story

The Opportunity and Threat Of Google Buyer Direct

AI agents could replace direct sales. And a beta product tied to Google’s ad server, dubbed Buyer Direct, could solve this problem better than anyone else, according to our guest Gareth Glaser, co-founder of Gamera and co-host of the podcast Ad Tech Ad Talk.

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CTV Roundup

Why MNTN’s CEO Isn’t Sweating Media Consolidation

“The strong will survive.” That’s how MNTN CEO Mark Douglas sums up the wave of consolidation sweeping both the media and ad tech industries – and he’s betting his CTV platform will be on the right side of it. On Tuesday evening, MNTN reported $82.5 million in revenue for the second quarter, up 21% year-over-year. […]

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