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Why a once-anonymous creator unmasked herself to build a bigger media brand 

In 2018, Kristi Cook was an anonymous YouTuber making videos about internet celebrity drama and gossip on a channel known as Spill Sesh, with only her disembodied voice doling out the week’s hottest gossip. The channel became wildly popular, garnering over 700,000 subscribers in just a few years (now 860,000) across more than 1,000 videos […]

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The Real Convergence Story Is Happening in Local Markets

TV convergence has largely been framed as a national conversation: advertisers looking for more connected ways to plan across linear and streaming, measure performance, and understand audiences. But as buyers push for more accountable, performance-oriented TV campaigns, that national-first approach starts to lose precision in local markets. “Any purchase decision is happening locally,” said Keith

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First-Party Data Is About More Than Retargeting And Audience Suppression

Brands have spent years and serious money building a direct understanding of their customers within analytics platforms, CDPs, loyalty programs, consent frameworks and CRM systems. And yet, when it comes time to make a media buy, they still hand the process over to algorithms shaped by someone else’s data. In 2011, AdExchanger asked me to

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Spotify Fully Absorbs Megaphone; Buyers Don’t Trust CTV Ad Supply

All In One Spot Six years after Spotify acquired audio ad server Megaphone, the product has finally been entirely absorbed into the Spotify Ad Server. So if you’re a podcast publisher that uses Megaphone, check your campaigns. Because, starting today, any Priority or Standard Guaranteed campaigns and PMP deals that aren’t using the updated Spotify

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