Marketing

WTF is a unified ad platform?

Ad tech’s shift from an industry littered with point solutions to one built around integrated stacks has been underway for a while. It was only a matter of time before the acronyms followed.  Unified advertising platforms (UAP) is one such term. It hasn’t fully landed in the industry’s vocabulary yet, but give it time. It […]

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The Trade Desk Has A Grand Vision, But Needs A New Breed Of CMO To Make It A Reality

The Trade Desk made $689 million in Q1 2026, up 12% from the period last year, while its net income and profit margin dipped slightly to $40 million and 6%, respectively, according to its quarterly earnings report on Thursday. The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green warned of difficult macroeconomic headwinds that make for cautious marketers.

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The Trade Desk’s $689M revenue beat is blunted by the departure of CSO Jacobson to OpenAI

The Trade Desk’s Q1 revenues of $689 million may suggest holding-company spats are a mere bump in the road, but confirming the exit of CSO Samantha Jacobson hours before its market disclosure shows complications can come from all directions. The demand-side platform’s earnings release came as supply-side platform PubMatic reported revenue of $62.6 million for

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‘Expand thoughtfully’: OpenAI offers ChatGPT ads to new markets including the U.K., Brazil and Japan

OpenAI’s ads business is going global. Over the coming weeks it will start testing ads in its ChatGPT AI-powered chatbot in the U.K., Brazil, Japan, South Korea and Mexico. Those countries join the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand as markets where advertisers can buy ads in the app, though not all markets are equal.

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