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Alphabet Exceeds $100 Billion In Q1 And Its Profits Almost Doubled

Wall Street investors know that, in the advertising business, Q1 is generally the poorest-performing period of the year. And this is a particularly poor macro-economic time. Alphabet is operating in a different reality. Or so it would seem while listening to the company’s Q1 earnings, which were released on Wednesday. Alphabet earned $109.9 billion in […]

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Rakuten And Impact.com Forge A New Alliance That Resets The Affiliate Industry

The two longest-standing names in the affiliate and partnership marketing category, Rakuten and Impact.com, have decided to stop fighting each other and will instead fight together. Rakuten is best-known for its consumer retail and rewards apps, but its competed with Impact as early affiliate networks platforms for ecommerce companies and other direct advertisers to connect […]

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Hard Truths For Retail Media At The IAB Connected Commerce Summit

The IAB’s 2026 Connected Commerce Summit in New York City felt to me like the retail media industry’s first sit-down explanation to a child who is now a “big kid” and must act accordingly. Not the birds-and-bees-type conversation by any means (we’ll save that for the consolidation phase in the future). But an important reality check. […]

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The Sports World Is Getting The Retail Media Bug

The retail media revolution of data-driven, digital marketing monetization is coming to the sports industry. On the innocuous end of the sports marketing spectrum, this week, Pacers Sports & Entertainment (PS&E) debuted what it calls the Fieldhouse Media Network in partnership with Deloitte and Yieldmo. PS&E owns the Indiana pro basketball teams – the NBA’s […]

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Carl’s Jr. And Hardee’s Marketing Goes Regional With Amazon Ads’ Streaming Media

The age-old question for streaming TV advertisers is how to target the viewers they want while reaching the scale their businesses need. The quick-serve restaurant operator CKE, which owns Carl’s Jr., Hardee’s and the Red Burrito and Green Burrito brands, initially dealt with the challenge of targeting and scale by consolidating marketing under one national […]

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The Rise Of Principal Media And The End Of The Agencies As We Knew Them

When one hears “agent” these days, one automatically thinks “AI” – but that’s not what this story is about. This is a story about how agencies are losing what makes them agents – as in, putting the interests of their clients first. Ad agency holding companies are among the most adaptable businesses out there. In recent […]

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MyFitnessPal Wants To Start The Health And Wellness Subsector Of Retail Media

Amit Patel had been a longtime user of MyFitnessPal, a health and nutrition tracking app, before joining a year ago as CRO. One of the reasons he joined, Patel told AdExchanger, is that he felt there was “untapped potential” in the app’s approach to advertising. Fast-forward to today, and MyFitnessPal has just announced the launch […]

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Viant Had A Good Q4, But Still Needs To Punch Up At Bigger Platforms

Viant reported its Q4 and full-year 2025 earnings on Wednesday evening, and investors appeared pleased. Net income last year was $24.1 million, almost double the total in 2024. Full-year 2025 revenue, meanwhile, grew by 22% to $110 million. CEO Tim Vanderhook told investors that revenue would have grown 28% without the affect of the prior […]

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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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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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