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How This Indie Agency Is Finding ‘Back Doors’ To Get Show-Level Data On CTV

For years, media buyers have been pushing connected TV publishers to share information about what shows – and even which apps – their ads are running against. But most programmers aren’t giving ground, so some agencies are starting to create their own methods to get more transparency into their CTV buys. Indie shop Rain the

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Curation Isn’t Harming Publishers, But Their Lack Of Collective Action Is

Curation is amazing – for SSPs.  It shifts power from buyers to sellers. Rather than DSPs and DMPs defining value through audience targeting – turning the open internet into a commodity – curation lets SSPs control media spend. Their closer, higher-fidelity view of publishers helps ensure ads align with quality content and relevant audiences. So,

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Media Buying Briefing: Crossmedia’s global goals are to localize where holdcos can’t

Although it’s safe to predict that a good portion of the expected crush of mergers and acquisitions in the agency landscape will happen in the U.S., recent signals point toward consolidation and scale-seeking on a global level. And not just by the major holding companies either — although last week brought news that Publicis bought

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Referral traffic from AI platforms grows despite publishers’ attempts to block crawlers

Traffic getting sent to publishers’ sites from AI platforms like ChatGPT and Perplexity is growing. And while that makes sense for the publishers that have signed deals with those companies to receive attribution for their content surfaced on those AI chatbot or search platforms, data shows that referral traffic is growing even to sites that

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