Marketing

A year after Unilever, the ad-funded creator economy is still catching up to its own ambition

The creator economy had been waiting for a moment like this. For years, influencer marketing had occupied an awkward position on media plans – big enough to matter, not established enough to defend. The measurement was patchy. The contracts were informal. The boardroom case was hard to make.  Then in March 2025, Fernando Fernández walked […]

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AdExchanger and The Women in Programmatic Network Renew Partnership for 2026 Events to Elevate Women’s Voices in Ad Tech

New York, NY — Friday, March 20, 2026 — AdExchanger has renewed its partnership with the US chapter of The Women in Programmatic Network (TWIPN) for 2026, expanding collaboration across its flagship industry gatherings and reinforcing a shared commitment to elevating more diverse voices across the programmatic advertising ecosystem. The partnership will span Programmatic AI,

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Beyond Programmatic: A New Model For Buying Premium CTV Inventory

If you buy CTV advertising, you’ve likely encountered two approaches to securing premium inventory: programmatic guaranteed (PG) and buying direct, also referred to as direct IO (DIO). Both are effective in different ways, but each introduces structural limitations that force advertisers to compromise on cost, transparency or execution. With traditional DIO, buyers negotiate directly with

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