Marketing

CTV Buyers Are Getting The Show-Level Performance Optimization They’ve Always Wanted

For CTV advertisers, figuring out exactly which shows their ads ran in – and how that impacted performance – is still the Holy Grail. But streaming platforms typically share either self-declared content categories or incomplete show-level reporting after ad campaigns have run. In many cases, the best a buyer can expect is for the platform

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The World Cup Is A Live Outcomes Test For Programmatic Live Sports

Two summers ago in Paris, the advertising industry ran an experiment in public. The 2024 Olympics became the first Programmatic Games, and the results settled a debate that had been dragging on for a decade.  Paris proved the mechanics: Premium live sports could be transacted programmatically, programmatic access could widen the buyer pool, and reach

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Media Buying Briefing: It’s a world party at the World Cup, unless you’re looking to get in now

Happy 250th Birthday, America! As one of three host countries of the 2026 World Cup, you received a bit of a gift from the U.S. Men’s National Team, which is on to the round of 16 having beaten Bosnia and Herzegovina on July 1 to advance. Today the team faces Belgium in hopes of getting

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WTF is AI poisoning?

Marketers have been trying to game LLM responses to suit their brands since users began turning to AI for search. In recent months, they’ve become aware that AI search responses aren’t just a user touchpoint that needs attention, but a competitive arena in which they might influence the way their rivals are perceived — and

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Hot Ones creator Sean Evans on YouTube vs. TV, the interview boom and what comes next

Sean Evans, the man behind the hit YouTube celebrity interview series “Hot Ones,” was named one of Time’s 100 most influential creators of 2025. He was early to CTV, early to the interview-as-spectable creator format, and among the first journalist-slash-creators to turn a YouTube show into a recognizable franchise.  He has watched platforms and formats

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