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Principal Conflict: Why Principal Media Means Measurement Must Be Independent, Fast And Granular

No one needs reminding that a recession sharpens the knife on every budget line. Yet the 2025 slowdown is arriving just as media trading itself is mutating. Madison and Wall now pegs nonpolitical ad growth next year at just 3.6% – half the pace most CMOs banked on a year ago. At the very moment

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How GroupM Is Collaborating With PubMatic As The SSP Gets Closer To The Buy Side

The line separating SSPs and DSPs is all but disappearing. And SSPs are building AI-based easy buttons to get closer to buy-side demand. PubMatic, an SSP, announced during NewFronts earlier this month that it’s expanding its Activate self-serve solution for buyers. The move solidifies PubMatic’s new strategy of building an end-to-end programmatic platform as it

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Primed For Context; Streamers Turn A Profit, But Will It Last?

Prime Numbers A pitch deck procured by ADWEEK indicates that Amazon will soon begin allowing far more granular contextual targeting for Prime Video inventory. Currently, advertisers can target Prime Video based on genre, like horror, action or sports. The new targeting parameters will also blend audience and media characteristics, such as “female voices,” “top trending,”

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ChatGPT referral traffic to publishers’ sites has nearly doubled this year

ChatGPT is sending more of its traffic to publishers’ sites.  Of the traffic OpenAI’s generative AI platforms send to external websites, 83% went to news and media sites in April, up from 64% in January, according to Similarweb data shared with Digiday.  Referral traffic from ChatGPT also continues to grow this year. ChatGPT sent 243.8

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The Rundown: How Google is sizing up to the DOJ in its ad tech antitrust trial

Related Insights Google on Trial Assessing the fallout of Google’s ad tech antitrust trial Read More Participants in the Google antitrust trial are entering the final furlong, with Google on Monday (May 19) countering the Justice Department’s remedy proposals after Justice Leonie Brinkema ruled its ad tech stack a monopoly last month. Of course, Google’s

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