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Pitch deck: Why Amazon believes its premium streaming inventory is worth the money

In 2025, Amazon quietly cornered premium streaming inventory. This year, it’s touring the market, pitching advertisers on why that access is worth the check. The latest pitch deck for Amazon DSP — the tech platform’s programmatic buying platform — makes that case plain. This is a member-exclusive article from Digiday. Continue reading it on digiday.com […]

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Walmart’s Ad Revenue Totaled $6.4 Billion In 2025 As The Ecom Flywheel Started To Spin

Walmart’s ad revenue in 2025 totaled $6.4 billion, per the company’s earnings report on Thursday.  That figure represents a 37% increase globally and 41% increase domestically for the Walmart Connect business, which operates in the US. “Fully a third of our profit in the most recent quarter was related to advertising and membership income,” CFO

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Inside The Epstein Files: Tracing His Links To Digital Advertising (So Far)

During his time as a New York financier, Jeffrey Epstein met and did business with dozens of other investors, entrepreneurs, tech founders and members of the elite. Which means it was inevitable that he would intersect with Ad Land at some point. The post Inside The Epstein Files: Tracing His Links To Digital Advertising (So Far)

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Omnicom’s lack of surprises in its 2025 earnings is both a good and bad thing

It was wise of Omnicom to report its fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 earnings after the market closed on Wednesday, since its stock gained in after-hours trading — unlike Publicis, which got walloped by traders after its quite positive financial results. However, its results were neither spectacularly good nor terribly bad, with 2025 revenue up 10%,

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Ad Tech Says It’s Not In The Surveillance Business. Now Is The Time To Prove It

I’ve been thinking a lot about the RFI issued by US Immigration and Customers Enforcement in late January. ICE is asking data providers and tech vendors to share information on how their tools and services could be used to “directly support investigations.” The RFI spells it out: “The Government is seeking to understand the current

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CTV Should Be Automated – But It Doesn’t Need To Be Programmatic

Upstream, a supply-side company that until today was called TheViewPoint, introduced a platform that automates direct TV and streaming ad sales. The platform launch and company rebrand strive to highlight the role of TV and streaming as an upper-funnel awareness channel. The post CTV Should Be Automated – But It Doesn’t Need To Be Programmatic

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