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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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CTV Roundup

VideoAmp’s Vampfront Event Proves The Measurement Company Is Out For Blood

When Executive Chairman Peter Liguori kicked off VideoAmp’s “Vampfront” presentation on Tuesday by encouraging more people to sit in front with a joke – that contrary to the popular idiom, he does bite, actually – of course I started thinking about my favorite pop culture vampires.

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The Big Story

Riffing On Tariff Tiffs And Risks As Uncertainty Reigns

The Trump tariff situation is in constant flux, creating uncertainty that spells doom for any potential growth in US ad spending this year. Plus, how retail media and other emerging channels could be threatened by tariff turmoil.

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Marketers

How AI Helps Butler/Till Curate High-Performing PMPs

Programmatic bidding algorithms aren’t always aligned with campaign goals, so agencies are relying on AI tech to create algorithms tailored to their campaigns instead. Butler/Till ran a display ad campaign on behalf of a financial services client between August and September last year that utilized tech from SWYM.ai, a company that provides programmatic decisioning tools […]

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