Ad Tech
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Data-Driven Thinking
The Hidden Dangers Of Privacy-Preserving Attribution – And A Smarter Solution
Meta and Mozilla have proposed a new browser-based attribution system for web ads that they’re calling Privacy-Preserving Attribution. The goal is to track how advertising leads to conversion with less privacy risk to users. Unfortunately, while PPA appears to solve an interesting math problem, if applied to real-world advertising, it will increase privacy risks for […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
Why – And What – Marketers Need To Know About AI Agents
Who would you hire if you were picking your marketing team from scratch? Team members that carefully strategize their work ahead of time, proactively collaborate and know when to look for external help to achieve the objective, with the right level of autonomy? If this sounds good, then you will love AI agents. And they […]
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CTV Roundup
Atmosphere TV Is Capitalizing On The “Sorta CTV” Trend
In light of T-Mobile’s plans to buy Vistar Media, Atmosphere TV’s business model shines a brighter spotlight on the grey area between connected TV and DOOH billboards.
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The Big Story
TikTok On The Clock
TikTok was granted a 75-day stay of execution this week. We discuss what’s next for the social media platform, why it was classified as a threat to national security and how advertisers are responding.
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Data-Driven Thinking
Brands Have A Right To Control The Ad Placements Around Political Content
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan recently initiated investigations into the World Federation of Advertisers, the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, advertisers and agency holding companies based on concerns that brands are not advertising on conservative social media platforms like X. Jordan has also opened an inquiry into the merger of Omnicom and IPG based […]
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Online Advertising
People Managing Google Ad Campaigns Are Getting Their Accounts Seized By Scammers
Multiple different criminal rings around the world are orchestrating surgical phishing scams that target ad industry media buyers. Specifically, fraudsters are duping ad buyers who log into Google Ads after running a Google search. The scammers serve fraudulent sponsored search links to these ad executives, and then hack into their accounts and use their funds […]
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The Big Story
Ad Tech Is Acquiring: On T-Mobile-Vistar And Trade Desk-Sincera
M&A started off with a bang in 2025. T-Mobile bought Vistar Media, and The Trade Desk bought Sincera. With a special guest from LUMA Partners, Conor McKenna, we explore the rationale for these ad tech acquisitions.
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CES 2025
LG Ad Solutions’ CTO Dave Rudnick On How AI Will Influence CTV Experiences
Today, AI is being used in CTV for a variety of machine learning applications. But in the future, AI will drive an unprecedented level of personalization. In this interview at CES 2025, LG Ad Solutions CTO Dave Rudnick talks about the division’s new “moonshot” unit, Innovation Labs, and more ways technology is transforming the streaming […]
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Online Advertising
Why Grassland Beef Put A Vendor In Charge Of Search And Social, Not The Platforms
Eight or so years ago, when Brent Jarvis joined US Wellness Meats, a beef company that operates the Grassland Beef direct-to-consumer business, the brand made a commitment to expand its reach by advertising in new channels. But it remained a small team of three without the requisite resources to produce creative and crunch data to […]
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CES 2025
Nielsen’s Matt Devitt On Guiding Advertisers Through The Fragmented TV Market
Nielsen’s Matt Devitt, head of advertisers and agencies, discusses the biggest changes in how advertisers and agencies are buying TV.
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