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How Delish’s Joanna Saltz built a sizzling brand and hot career in a fickle industry

At a time when media careers are often measured in months rather than years, Joanna Saltz is something of an anomaly. This year marks a double milestone: the 10th anniversary of Delish, the Hearst food brand that’s become famous for its approachable, no-stress cooking philosophy, and editorial director Saltz’s own 10-year anniversary at its helm. […]

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How TikTok Shop will police for fraudulent behavior on Black Friday and Cyber Monday

This story was originally published on sister site, Modern Retail. TikTok Shop is preparing for the peak holiday shopping season, when strong sales are often accompanied by an uptick in counterfeit goods and fraudulent behavior. The company last week released its latest safety report, which details the progress TikTok has made in policing its fast-growing

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Buyers aren’t exactly won over by Netflix’s new monthly active viewers (MAV) metric

Just a week since launch, and Netflix’s new monthly active viewers (MAV) metric is landing with measured skepticism. When Amy Reinhard, who oversees the ad business, introduced the MAV metric during a press briefing, she framed it as a more accurate read of how people watch the streamer’s ad tier — often together on a

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Future of TV Briefing: WTF is IAB Tech Lab’s device attestation tactic to combat CTV ad fraud?

This week’s Future of TV Briefing breaks down the CTV ad industry’s new tool for fighting device spoofing. WTF is device attestation? Netflix’s video podcast plans, Apple’s (lack of) ad plans and more WTF is device attestation? In the cat-and-mouse game of CTV ad fraud, the cat has a new mousetrap. IAB Tech Lab has

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How Jersey Mike’s demonstrated incremental value with AI-powered programmatic CTV

Matt Wasserlauf, CEO, Blockboard There is no bigger buzzword in the world than AI. Right now, investments in the hundreds of billions of dollars are rolling in to pay for chips, data centers and people to build out artificial intelligence. NVIDIA, the leading AI chip-maker, just became the first five trillion-dollar company. Many on Wall

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How PubMatic Countered A Big DSP’s Spending Dip In Q3 (And Our Theory On Who It Was)

You know those stock images that show two businesspeople in suits shaking hands, but one is hiding a knife behind their back? Well, it would be a more accurate portrayal of the current DSP/SSP dynamic if both figures were holding knives. During PubMatic’s Q3 earnings call on Monday, several investors pressed the company’s leadership about

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Amazon rebuilds its ad machine for the mass market

Amazon is remaking the center of its ads business.  What began as sponsored product placements tied closely to its retail marketplace has grown into a full-scale media network spanning streaming TV, audio, display and third-party publisher inventory. Now, the company is reorganizing how advertisers access and operate across that ecosystem.  At this year’s unBoxed conference,

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