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As CTV Blooms, It’s Knives Out For The Trade Desk’s Take Rate

The Trade Desk’s (TTD) take rate has been one of the most sensitive topics in programmatic advertising for the past decade. From 2017 to the present, its take rate has hovered between 19% to 21%, a number The Trade Desk reports annually. Shortly after The Trade Desk’s IPO, founder and CEO Jeff Green told AdExchanger […]

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A Message From Your Friendly (For Now) State Privacy Enforcer: Honesty Is The Best Privacy Policy

Wanna hear something a little strange? I attended two privacy-focused conferences in Washington, DC last week, and almost no one was talking about Google’s third-party cookie announcement. To be fair, the news – that Google is scrapping plans to release a choice mechanism for third-party cookies in Chrome – didn’t break until midday on Tuesday, which

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How Shutterfly Used A Search-Powered Custom Algorithm To Zoom In On New Customers

Everyone in programmatic knows that the best way to drive outcomes is to use some kind of identifier … right? But a CTV campaign Shutterfly ran at the end of last year to promote its holiday gift packages and photo deals challenges that perception. Shutterfly’s goal was to uncover new pools of potential customers to

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Is Facebook quietly becoming a new revenue stream for publishers again?

Just when publishers thought Facebook was done, it’s pulling them back in.  Publishers have witnessed a recent year-over-year spike in Facebook referral traffic, and it’s — somewhat surprisingly — coinciding with an influx of revenue from Meta’s content monetization program.  Of the 10 publishers Digiday spoke to for this article, several are on track to

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Industry vets’ dos and don’ts to managing chaos when ‘attention is essentially on clearance’

It’s difficult to know how marketers should manage this current moment. It’s not just a matter of a potential economic downturn that could hurt consumer sentiment and ultimately consumer spending. It’s not just tariffs and the topsy-turvy nature of the Trump administration. It’s a lot for marketers to manage. Even though they expect chaos, they

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Media Buying Briefing: Millennial parents and their Gen Alpha kids are upending consumption habits: Horizon study

Is it time for yet another reset in how marketers and their media agencies need to approach media investments thanks to changing consumer habits? Horizon Media certainly is proposing that, with new research it is unveiling today that shows millennial parents of Gen Alpha children are consuming content and advertising in completely different ways.  Independent

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Music promoters turn to other platforms besides TikTok to invest in as part of a broader creator playbook

With TikTok’s future hanging in the balance, music promoters are widening their focus from TikTok to creators on other short-form video platforms such as Instagram and YouTube. Although President Donald Trump extended the deadline for the government-mandated U.S. TikTok ban on April 5, marketers of all kinds — including music promoters — remain uncertain about

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As talk of recession looms, smaller brands bet on the value of retail media — here’s why

President Donald Trump’s tariffs have advertisers on edge, and many are hesitant to shell out on long-term spend commitments, like the ones found in retail media’s joint business plans. Small businesses, however, are keeping their foot on the gas, increasingly turning to retail media networks in a bid to boost brand awareness in a saturated

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