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Understanding MCP, The ‘Universal Adapter’ For AI In Advertising

If there are two things ad tech isn’t short on, it’s acronyms and, more recently, AI product demos. But MCP – short for Model Context Protocol – is more than another TLA (sorry, three-letter acronym) or AI buzzword. Metaphorically speaking, it’s plumbing for AI: the piping that lets large language models connect to other software […]

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The Privacy ‘Zealots’ Were Right: Ad Tech’s Infrastructure Was Always A Risk

I’ve been saying for years that addressable advertising was a strategic mistake. Not because targeting shouldn’t exist, but because building an ecosystem dependent on granular identity, location trails and behavioral signals was always going to create exposure we couldn’t fully control.  And if we’re being honest, the precision targeting story was oversold anyway. The industry

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Long-form creators eye taking over TVs – and chasing bigger brand budgets

Long-form creator shows are landing on TVs, and Spotter, a creator growth platform that provides services and capital to facilitate growth and YouTube revenue share, wants brands to follow — but ad budgets are still lagging. Audiences spent 52 billion minutes last year watching long-form, episodic creator shows across platforms, according to data Spotter released

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Media Buying Briefing: Overheard at DMBS Spring 2026: AI from the top to the bottom of agencies

Another Media Buying Summit is in the books, having just wrapped last Wednesday in Nashville. And while some terrific speakers took the stage, once again it’s the Town Halls that reveal some of the greatest challenges that the people doing the real work at media agencies face day to day.  Held under Chatham House rules,

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How AI could disrupt retail media’s $38 billion search ad market

If OpenAI’s latest moves indicate anything, LLMs are positioning themselves to be the go-to stop for searching and shopping. Between shopping integrations and ad product rollouts, AI chatbots could rattle retail media networks’ hold on sponsored and search ad dollars. As user behavior shifts, so too could retail media’s value proposition. Already, AI has upended

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