Marketing

The Rundown: The DOJ still urges forced Chrome sale in antitrust trial

The presence of leading executives, including Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, at President Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration led many to believe that Big Tech would have a smooth course in the coming years, especially in any antitrust trial.  Related Insights Google on Trial Assessing the most likely outcomes of Google’s pivotal ad tech antitrust […]

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Investigation shines light on social media’s insidious child data harvesting

Social media isn’t just watching your kids. It’s studying them.  Every like, scroll and share feeds an invisible machine designed to track their habits, predict their interests and keep them hooked for as long as possible. Platforms like TikTok, Instagram and YouTube collect massive amounts of data from young users, often without clear consent or…

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Decoding Curated Deals: How Standardized Reporting Can Bring Transparency

Curation is the latest buzzword in programmatic advertising, but the concept is far from new.  We’ve seen SSPs package publisher inventory in various ways for years now. But the slew of third parties coming in to do on-platform curation is changing the dynamics in our space.  For publishers, the promise of curation lies in its

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Amazon tried to make shopping social. Here’s why it didn’t click

When Amazon killed its TikTok-style feed, Inspire, last month, most advertisers were unsurprised. In their eyes, it just didn’t seem to have gained any real interest. “It never really felt like it had enough traction, in terms of scale, to invest more than an initial test for many brands,” said Joe O’Connor, senior director of

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