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Dynamically Inserted Billboards In TV Content: Groundbreaking Or Distracting?
For some marketers, the billboards that appear in the backgrounds of TV scenes – or heck, even just the blank walls of a building – feel like prime real estate for even more ad placements.
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How AI Can Enhance Content Without Generating It
As much as consumers complain about AI-generated content, advertising experts say AI still has an important place in video creation and production, including for ads. But using AI in content without turning off consumers is a tricky dance.
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Inside The Trade Desk’s Pitch For Ventura TV OS
The Trade Desk is muscling its way into the TV operating system business with its Ventura OS – but the real story is what TTD’s ambitions reveal about conflicts of interest within the industry and the inherent mismatch between consumer and advertiser needs.
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Better Attribution Makes Live Sports A Performance Play
To squeeze the most juice out of their live sports campaigns, many marketers are adopting programmatic buying and marketing mix modeling, both of which are also drawing more advertisers to the digital live sports cornucopia.
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FAST Content Isn’t Always ‘Premium,’ But That’s Where TV Ad Innovation Is Happening
The FAST channel ecosystem is providing advertisers with a sandbox (no, not that sandbox) to test new CTV formats, targeting tools and programmatic buying methods.
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AI Is Redefining Premium Content – Which May Not Be A Good Thing
At AdExchanger’s Programmatic AI conference, media experts discussed how the rise of AI-generated content is changing the industry’s understanding of “premium” content.
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Let’s Be Upfront About Performance
During upfronts, publishers flexed their ad performance muscles at media buyers all week long in an effort to appeal to the biggest demands media buyers have during their upfront negotiations: flexibility and results.
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What ‘Heated Rivalry’ Reveals About LGBTQ+ Media And Marketing
As a queer media trade reporter, I often wonder whether media companies and marketers are interested in trying to form a connection with me based on my queer identity. It’s a question I got to unpack onstage at POSSIBLE 2026 in Miami earlier this week, when I moderated a panel about how the TV show […]
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Streaming Platforms Are Embracing Vertical Video. But At This Point, Is It Worth It?
It seems like all the streaming services are getting into vertical video these days. But ads aren’t on the menu yet.
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Hot Take: YouTube Shouldn’t Rely On Creators To Convince Brands It’s TV
Platforms using talent to corroborate sales pitches is nothing new – the TV upfronts have always included publishers peacocking their talent to impress buyers. But YouTube arguably juggles an additional obligation to act in accordance with its self-imposed competitive differentiator: authenticity.
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