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At POSSIBLE 2025, Yahoo CRO Rob Wilk shared the company’s “greatest hits with new tracks” approach to reinvention—and explained why client loyalty, not hype, is the real signal of success. Yahoo’s been around for three decades. But that doesn’t mean we should mistake staying power for standing still. At POSSIBLE 2025, AdMonsters sat down with […]

At long last the most prominent GDPR case targeting the legal standing of the IAB Europe’s Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF) has been settled. A Belgian appeals court has ruled on how ad tech vendors, publishers and advertisers can continue to use programmatic advertising in Europe. “Well, here we are,” IAB Europe CEO Towney Feehan […]

Here’s the truth about data: while certain signals like weather patterns or real-time engagement metrics can significantly impact campaign performance, others merely add noise.

The open web is dead; long live the open web. It’s healthy; it’s full of opportunity; it’s doomed; it’s a mess. Also, what even is the open web, and do consumers care about the definition? This is the sort of inside baseball stuff that ad tech CEOs and founders somehow still continue to debate when […]

Microsoft Invest – formerly Xandr DSP and formerly AppNexus before that – will soon just be formerly, full stop. On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that it will shut down Microsoft Invest by March next year. The DSP will be replaced by a chatbot-style ad-buying product powered by Copilot, Microsoft’s generative AI solution. However, the change only applies […]

Connected TV ads are driving measurable results at athletic shoe brand Nobull, including an increase in revenue, said Chris Gil, Nobull’s digital marketing director. Before shoppers purchase, they need to know and trust a brand. TV ads are a great way to do that, especially with Nobull’s target audience of young shoppers, Gil said. There’s […]

Discovery is shifting. Attention is scattered. And the sell side isn’t just supporting strategy—it is the strategy. Here’s what media owners need to know now, and the real moves to make next.

The ad industry speculated a great deal about how The Trade Desk might put Sincera to use after its acquisition of the ad metadata and  analytics startup in January. We now have one indication of how Sincera will be put to use. TTD publicly announced OpenSincera on Tuesday. The free API integration posts ad impression […]

One big theme of the 2025 NewFronts: consumers are being encouraged to interact with ads through QR codes and gamified experiences.

If you felt a strange gust around 5 pm ET on Thursday, it was probably the cumulative sighs of relief across Wall Street as The Trade Desk shook off its Q4 blues with a better-than-expected first quarter earnings report. In February, when TTD reported a bad miss on Q4 revenue, its shares plummeted by one-third, […]