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  • 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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  • AI Can Interpret Data. It Can’t Vouch For It

    The next internet will not be built by humans clicking buttons; it will be built by agents acting on behalf of people, brands, publishers, platforms and enterprises.  Some of these agents will be simple workflow assistants. Others will manage budgets, audiences, inventory and outcomes with increasing autonomy across systems that were never designed to work […]

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  • Newton Research’s New Agentic Layer Can (Kinda) Predict The Future

    Think of causal modeling like scientifically-backed fortune telling. It looks at whatever data is available and uses that to predict what’s going to happen next. It’s casual modeling that’s at the core of AI ad analytics platform Newton Research’s new agentic layer, called Unlimited Analytics. Launched on Tuesday, Unlimited Analytics contains a host of agents […]

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  • ‘Models Built For Me’

    Chalice AI’s COO and co-founder, Ali Manning, explains how the AI startup – don’t call it a custom algorithm company – is helping brands like Bayer use advertiser-specific bidding models to drive real outcomes as opposed to poor proxies.

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  • IAB’s New Advice On How To Measure AI Search Visibility

    Publishers and brands alike are scrambling to show up in AI search responses, and to be described in their preferred ways. But with new AI optimization tools cropping up faster than you can say AEO, it’s hard to pinpoint which metrics are most important to track and what it even means to measure AI search […]

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  • AI Agents Are Giving Publishers A New Way To Monetize Their Data

    End-to-end agentic ad campaigns are no longer hypothetical; they’re in market. For publishers that have struggled to activate their first-party data, AI agents offer a more automated and bespoke approach to deal curation that wasn’t possible before. PubMatic and Optable are both productizing this shift with agentic tech and collaborating on a new end-to-end workflow […]

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  • DOOH You Like Women’s Sports?

    Women’s sports is having a moment as publishers, advertisers and the tech vendors in between try to capitalize on rising viewership. Digital out-of-home is having a moment, too.

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  • Sweetgreen Tapped Atmosphere TV To Introduce World Cup Viewers To Its Wraps

    Sweetgreen used the World Cup as a marketing opportunity to promote its new wraps. The brand tapped the video advertising startup Atmosphere TV for help running a video ad in those public spaces where people were likely watching the World Cup.

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  • There’s Not Enough Women’s Sports Ad Inventory To Go Around, But That’s Starting To Change

    Women’s sports are a lot more popular than they used to be. But ad inventory remains scarce, because women’s sports still gets way less mainstream media exposure.

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  • The Hardest KPI In Advertising

    Marketing consumer products comes with plenty of challenges. But just try selling a political candidate in a hyper-polarized, 24-hour news environment, says Mark Jablonowski, CEO of DSPolitical, a political ad platform that caters to Democrats and progressive causes.

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