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Comcast Might Be Losing Revenue, But Not NBCU’s Peacock

Parts of Comcast might be struggling, but the company still feels “well positioned” in advance of the TV upfronts in May, according to Chief Financial Officer Jason Armstrong. Comcast has confidence in “a healthy Peacock subscriber base” and strong content across entertainment and news, Armstrong told investors during the company’s quarterly earnings report on Wednesday. […]

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The Big Story

The Ad Tech Verdict On Google And Third-Party Cookies

Google’s SSP and ad server businesses have been ruled monopolies. And Google Chrome isn’t going to change its third-party cookie opt-ins, further preserving third-party cookies. Go inside this momentous news.

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Online Advertising

The FTC’s New Consumer Protection Chief Plans To Be Objective About Targeted Advertising

Back in 2022, the term “surveillance advertising” became common parlance at the Federal Trade Commission. But you won’t catch any of the current commissioners or key staff invoking that term anymore. Using pejorative labels, like “surveillance advertising,” for example, “does nothing to help us understand the practice,” said Christopher Mufarrige, the newly appointed director of […]

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AdExchanger Talks

How Ecommerce Brands Are Finding Customers During A Tempest Of Headwinds

Americans are dealing with tumultuous change. For an ecommerce ad agency, that means navigating the same tariff craziness, Temu advertisements being pulled from the US market, the Meta ad platform going haywire and platform AI solutions all looking to replace human agency services.

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Data-Driven Thinking

Unpacking Google Breakup Proposals: New Rules, New Risks For Marketers

A long-simmering antitrust battle concerning Google’s ad tech business has reached a decisive turning point. On April 17, 2025, US District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that Google violated sections one and two of the Sherman Act. She found that Google monopolized the open-web display publisher ad server market (via DFP) and the ad exchange market […]

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The Big Story

Ta-Ta To US Temu Ads

Temu pulled back on its US ad spend this week, as tariffs loom. Plus, in France, the ATT prompt was deemed anticompetitive and, as a result, will likely need to be changed.

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AI

Meet The AI Startup Founded By Ad Tech Vets That Wants To Replace Ads With ‘Adaptive Experiences’

It’s like that line from “The Godfather: Part III”: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” OG ad tech entrepreneurs just can’t seem to stay away from ad tech. Case in point: Firsthand, a startup that describes itself as an “AI-powered brand agent platform,” which was launched last year by […]

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Data-Driven Thinking

The Brand Safety Myth: Why Most Marketers Don’t Need Brand Safety Verification

When I started working with marketers in the early 2000s, they were advertising on fewer digital channels than today, and there were fewer nefarious challenges, like fraud and malicious advertising attacks. But brand marketing has gotten more challenging over the years. Today, marketers expect their partners to monitor and measure viewability, engagement and conversions, because […]

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AdExchanger Talks

Straight Talk With Mediaocean CEO Bill Wise

In 2017, Mediaocean CEO Bill Wise predicted the demise of supply-side platforms. The category survived, but he’s sticking to his theory that pureplay SSPs are a thing of the past. Plus: An update on Mediaocean’s $550 million Innovid acquisition and Wise’s counterpoint to recent criticisms of The Trade Desk.

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Data-Driven Thinking

Undermining Ourselves: How Advertising Keeps Getting Standards Wrong

Many well-intentioned advertising standards efforts gather digital dust. Others have even shut down in the face of lawsuits claiming insufficiently broad industry engagement. Why? Because we mistake the release of a proposal for the achievement of standardization and create more noise than clarity. My standards journey began with IAB’s Future of the Cookie (FotC) working […]

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