Victoria McNally
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CES 2026
No Waiting for May – CES Is Where The TV Upfront Season Starts
If any single event can be considered the jumping-off point for TV upfronts, it’s the Consumer Electronics Showcase (CES), which kicks off this week in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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CTV Roundup
AdExchanger’s Top 4 CTV Stories Of 2025
It’s that time of year again – the time when we all start saying things like, “It’s that time of year again!”
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Marketers
The VAB’s Latest Report Puts Nielsen’s Big Data + Panel Methodology On Blast
The VAB is accusing Nielsen’s Big Data + Panel of producing “instability, inconsistency and irrational” TV audience measurement results, particularly when compared to its legacy panel-only product.
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CTV Roundup
Why Hyper-Local Planning Agency Novus Media Likes Buying CTV Programmatically
Is it too soon to start thinking about New Year’s resolutions? Since taking on AdExchanger’s CTV beat at the beginning of March, I’ve learned a lot about the industry from the perspectives of publishers, measurement companies, platforms and even a few brands. So next year, to round out my education, I’m setting a goal for […]
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Marketers
The Sweet Strategy Behind Busy Bee Honey’s Unexpected Blue Makeover
Baby blue probably isn’t a color most shoppers expect to see in the honey aisle at their local supermarket. But that dissonance is exactly why Barkman Honey chose that color for its newly rebranded Busy Bee Raw Honey packaging, which first hit stores in September.
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CTV Roundup
What The TV Industry’s Q3 Earnings Tell Us About This Year’s Biggest Ad Trends
Is it just me, or do third-quarter earnings always seem especially strange?
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The Big Story
Yearning For Earnings
Every once in a while, we like to pull the curtain back here at AdExchanger and discuss how we decide what’s worth covering. Which is why this week’s episode of The Big Story opens with an important question: Why do we report on earnings calls in the first place?
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AI
How Agentic Advertising Platform Aimy Uses Comcast’s Universal Ads API
On Monday, Brand Networks announced that Universal Ads would now be buyable through the company’s agentic ad buying platform, Aimy Ads.
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CTV Roundup
Locality Wants Every Ad To Hit Close to Home
Ignoring the fact that early pioneers in the space didn’t plan to have ads in the first place (looking at you, Netflix!), even with targeting and personalization, most major players are still thinking of national reach – not local reach – as their default.
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CTV Roundup
High School Football Can Have Streaming Ads, Too, Thanks To Platforms Like Hudl
High school sports are very different now than when I was a teenager. As is the case with basically all forms of modern entertainment, they’ve faced some disruption by the rise of streaming video – as well as the ads that often follow.
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