Ad Tech
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AdExchanger Talks
The Science (And Art) Of Scaling Native Ads
Native advertising has been around for a long time. But creating a native ad unit online is way more complicated than a standard programmatic placement, because multiple teams and systems have to compose it on the fly, says Priti Ohri, CEO and co-founder of startup Advertible, which describes itself as “native-as-a-service.”
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AI
Wondercraft Launches AI Tool To Speed Up Audio Ad Production
Audio advertising presents a paradox: It’s an increasingly popular form of media, making up between 20% and 30% of consumption time in the US, depending on the source, but it’s woefully underrepresented in terms of spend. Wondercraft, an AI-powered audio content creation studio, is hoping to bridge that gap by making audio a more accessible […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
The Trade Desk’s Blue Ocean Moment: How The DSP Can Rewrite Ad Tech’s Rules
In ad tech, group thinking is the silent killer. It convinces great companies to keep playing the same game long after the rules have changed. Too many leaders keep reaching for the same playbook that worked a decade ago: connect pipes, aggregate inventory, plug data, take a cut. Even The Trade Desk (TTD), arguably the […]
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The Big Story
When The Trade Desk Dips, Ad Tech Drops
Investors use The Trade Desk as a proxy for the health of the entire open web advertising ecosystem, which means TTD’s recent run of concerning earnings is devaluing the entire ad tech sector. Doubts about how TTD is competing with walled gardens like Amazon, along with slower overall revenue growth, have led some investors to […]
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CTV Roundup
LiveRamp Exec Adam Paul Talks Scaling Context In CTV Audiences
According to Adam Paul, executive director of media alliances at LiveRamp, the old-school programmatic ads – the ones bought across multiple platforms without regard to context or audience – are underperforming on CTV these days.
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AdExchanger Talks
HouseFresh Clears The Air On Google’s Changing Search Experience
Publishers can no longer rely on steady search traffic thanks to zero-click AI chatbots and near-constant discovery algorithm changes made by Big Tech gatekeepers. So what comes next? That’s the billion-dollar question facing premium and longtail publishers alike. But pubs are operating under a cloud of confusion caused by outdated SEO strategies and a lack […]
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Marketers
The Startup Trying To Automate The Ad Platform Reconciliation And Refund Mess
Walled garden platform advertisers may not know where their ads were served or who they targeted, and have no log files to boot, but they paid for those ads all the same. And they may have enough info to claim a refund. That’s the idea behind the startup Vaudit, founded last year by Mike Hahn, […]
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AI
Sorry, LLMs – Congress Might Make It A Whole Lot Harder To Train On Copyrighted Content
AI bots are hungry. They’re scraping information found on passports and credit cards and training on novels without authors’ consent. Even fanfiction has been used to train some (presumably quite nerdy) bots. But a bill proposed in the Senate a few weeks ago could change that.
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Data-Driven Thinking
The Guardrails Are Down: It’s Time For Advertisers To Rethink Social Targeting
Most of us don’t realize how much control we’ve already given up. With industry red flag reports now published regularly, we’re forced to confront the hard truth that control and transparency are further away than we thought. At the same time, social platforms have shifted their content moderation approaches, with most of them embracing a […]
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CTV Roundup
Here’s What It’s Like Watching Netflix’s Live WWE Broadcast For The Ads
Even if you attend one of Netflix’s WWE events in person, you won’t be able to escape the ads. I now know this from experience.
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