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FTC Consumer Protection Chief: No Easy Answers On Privacy, ‘Only Trade-Offs’

Privacy isn’t binary. Data can be considered either highly private or not, depending on the context in which it’s shared and each individual’s personal preferences, said Chris Mufarrige, director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, speaking at the NAD’s annual conference in Washington, DC, earlier this week. Any framework for privacy protection

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SSPs Are Facing Extinction – And Only Bold Differentiation Can Save Them

The Trade Desk recently classified SSPs as resellers and doubled down on a strategy that has been in place for years: establishing direct connections to supply sources. The stated goal is to deduplicate bid requests in pursuit of perfect supply-path optimization, all under TTD’s roof. This strategy shines a spotlight on SSPs, which are now

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Everything you need to know about the closing stages of Google’s ad tech antitrust trial

The ad tech trial many thought would go nowhere has done the unthinkable: it delivered. Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that Google illegally monopolized the digital advertising market – validating years of industry gripes.  The court found that Google violated U.S. antitrust laws by monopolizing the markets for publisher ad servers with DoubleClick for Publishers, and

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The Sun doubles video’s share of digital revenue to 18% by betting on original programming

As Google’s AI Overviews threaten to chip away at publishers’ search traffic, The Sun is betting big on something harder to displace: original long-form video. Over the past nine months, video’s share of the publisher’s digital revenue has nearly doubled, climbing from 9 percent in January to 18 percent today, as advertisers shift spend into

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Sports rights owners are embracing YouTube creators as their next media partners

From YouTube broadcasters to credentialed TikTokers, sports rights owners are embracing creators — and rethinking what a media partner looks like. In recent weeks, Germany’s Bundesliga became the first top-tier league to award live match rights in the U.K. to YouTube personalities like Mark Goldbridge, whose “That’s Football” channel boasts millions of subscribers. In Brazil,

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Media Buying Briefing: With Aquila testing its wings, media agencies pay close attention to their clients’ work

Cross-media measurement has long been a sort of Holy Grail for the media and marketing industries — long sought but never found in its perfect form. Could it be that, like the giant eagles that come to the rescue of Frodo Baggins and Sam Gamgee at the end of Lord of the Rings, that Aquila

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