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Meta Made A Mint In Q3 – But Investors Are Worried About Its AI Spending Spree

Despite beating expectations and generating more than $40 billion in revenue during the third quarter – a 19% YOY increase – Meta got punished on Wednesday after its Q3 earnings report. The company’s stock dipped by more than 15% in after-hours trading on the news that its spending will ramp up this year and into the next. […]

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Criteo trumpets Microsoft tie-up and further retail media opportunities as Q3 revenues slide

Today (Oct. 30), Criteo posted mixed results for the three months ending Sept. 30. Revenues were $459 million, representing a 2% annual decline, although gross profit increased 13% to $232 million during the period. These results — announced a day after Google posted further declines in its display ad business — indicate the challenges facing

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Based On Its Q3 Earnings, Maybe AIphabet Should Just Change Its Name To AI-phabet

Alphabet, which reported its third quarter earnings on Tuesday, generated more than $88 billion in Q3 total revenue, up 15% from a year ago. Meanwhile, YouTube’s combined advertising and subscription businesses surpassed $50 billion over the past year. This is the first time YouTube has ever hit that milestone. Impressive numbers. But investors seemed to

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How DPG Media Built Its Own (Mostly) Google-Free Ad Platform

Publishers know their competition, and, increasingly, they aren’t competing with other pubs; they’re competing with Big Tech. Belgian publishing house DPG Media made news last week for its decision to stop selling in-app ads on the programmatic open market, just one of many moves it’s made on its journey to disentangle itself from the influence

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Amazon Prime Video Officially Sold Out of Black Friday NFL Ad Inventory

In a conversation at ADWEEK’s Mediaweek, Amazon head of U.S. live sports and video sales Danielle Carney confirmed that the streamer sold out of ad inventory for its Black Friday National Football League game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Las Vegas Raiders. And conversations were already kicking off at the beginning of the year….

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Balancing Accuracy, Richness And Scale For Effective Audience Targeting

Digital advertisers should be able to agree that there are about 345 million people in the US, making up about 133 million households. But, historically, media buying has been all about scale, even if it meant outrageously false population counts on audience segments.  More recently, advertisers have started to accept that there is a correlation

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