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This story was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail In December 2024, Walmart did something perhaps out of character: It helped start a video gaming news website. Restart.run launched in December 2024 by gaming strategy and content marketing agency Moonrock. It prominently disclosed that it was created using funding from Walmart, with the initial tagline of “independent […]

As other DSPs move their business closer to clients, inadvertently or consciously avoiding agencies as middlemen, one is looking to recruit more agencies to its cause as it seeks to expand its client base, as well as help them get closer to delivering on outcomes.  Although not exactly a pure DSP, performance ad-tech firm Moloco,

AI visibility isn’t the only zero-click concern keeping marketers up at night. Now that tools like Scrunch and Profound are commonplace, CMOs are thinking ahead to the next task: finding evidence that a strong zero-click search presence actually drives sales. “Every CMO we know has been under excruciating pressure over the last 18 months from

Mobile app marketing and performance platform Liftoff hosted its first-ever earnings call as a public company on Wednesday evening, and CEO Jeremy Bondy kicked things off with a refresher course. “On the supply side, our SSP – or supply side platform – helps apps monetize their user base via our software development kit, or SDK,”

AppLovin has been on a wild ride for the past couple of years. Its shares traded at around $80 in 2024, reached $720 in late 2025 and now trade at $340. In that short time, AppLovin has fought off short-seller attacks, navigated a downturn in casual gaming apps – its core market – and watched investors

Build a wall around the right property, and people will line up to get inside. Build one around the wrong property, and eventually you’re the person asking if anyone remembers their AOL password.  Meta is the clean success case. For all the industry’s complaints about opacity, Meta became a walled garden marketers could not ignore

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