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Freestar Is Taking The ‘Baby Carrot’ Approach To Curation

The curation craze has taken over open-web auctions – and now it’s coming for programmatic direct deals. Curation is a “great way” to shift net new ad dollars away from the walled gardens and toward open web publishers, said Heather Carver, CRO at Freestar, an ad network representing more than 500 publishers, most of which can’t […]

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Nightmare On Affiliate Street; Exploring Search Crevices

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Dis-Affiliate Google is tinkering with its search rankings again, this time to address well-known publishers with affiliate businesses, Search Engine Land reports.  Forbes was recently hit hard after being the target of a report by Lars Lofgren, chief growth officer of performance agency

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What Rich Lehrfeld’s media buying background means for Walmart RMN business

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Stitcher • Spotify The retail media network space is booming to say the least. An there is a seemingly endless supply of retailers making everything an ad network, all competing for the same ad budgets.  To sell its retail media network to advertisers, Walmart Connect placed its bet on Rich Lehrfeld,

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This startup is creating an AI training data marketplace to help creators and companies buy and sell licensed content

What’s the value of data used in training AI? That’s an existential question one new startup wants to help answer. Trainspot is launching an AI marketplace to help content creators monetize their intellectual property for AI training while giving developers and businesses a way to source licensed training data. The San Francisco-based company, which emerged

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Adelaide becomes the first attention metrics firm to enter the MRC accreditation process

The process of getting accreditation through the Media Rating Council is no walk in the park — in fact, some refer to it as a “trail of tears.” But the imprimatur of legitimacy it can confer on various forms of measurement around media and marketing can change those companies’ directions and fortunes.  Currently among the

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