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 2024: Goodbye Impressions, Hello Attention

Attention Metrics: The Ad Industry’s New Favorite Buzzword  2024 will forever be known as the year advertisers got collectively obsessed with attention metrics. And why...

Display Advertising: The Zombie That Refuses to Die (And Why You Should Care)

Ah, display ads. Like bell-bottoms and vinyl, they’ve been declared dead so many times they’re practically immortal. “Who’s even looking at banner ads anymore?”...

Ditch the Dirty Blanket: Facing the Funky Truth of Ad Spend

Look, marketing land is littered with marketers clinging to old-school attribution models tighter than a toddler with a filthy stuffed bunny. In a world...

When Ad Titans Tango: Omnicom and IPG’s $25 Billion Waltz to Dominance

In a move that has the advertising world clutching its collective coffee cups a little tighter, Omnicom Group has thrown down the gauntlet—and not...

Drew Stein: Master of the Hadron Helm, Now Steering Experian’s Adtech Ship

There’s now a saying in adtech: when PR people reach out to you with coy smiles and cryptic non-announcements, you’re looking at one of...

Sam Bloom: Marketing’s Last Sane Man?

How He’s Keeping His Cool While Everyone Else Chases Trends If marketing today is a three-ring circus, Sam Bloom is the rare ringmaster who doesn’t...

Alex Li of AppLovin: The Maverick Who’s Redefining Mobile App Advertising

Mobile app advertising: the wild frontier where brands hope to strike gold, but most end up with fool’s gold instead. Enter Alex Li, Senior...

Mobile Web Ads: The Walking Dead of Digital Marketing

Mobile web advertising is the embarrassing uncle at Thanksgiving—awkward, outdated, and somehow still getting attention despite adding no value to the conversation.  It’s a relic...

Adtech’s Lemon Market: Why We Keep Buying Sour Fruit and Calling It Progress

Adtech is starting to feel like a carnival funhouse—flashy, disorienting, and filled with surprises that make you question your life choices. Take The Trade...

The Trade Desk’s Ventura: Shaking Up CTV or Just Stirring the Pot?

Connected TV (CTV) just got a wake-up call—or maybe a Molotov cocktail. The Trade Desk has announced Ventura, its new operating system slated for 2025,...

From Big Ideas to Tiny Banners: How #Adtech Shrinks the Dream

When I resurrected this newsletter from the ashes of my previous endeavor—dusted it off like some overambitious Frankenstein experiment—I wasn’t entirely sure where it...

The Ad Tech Racket: How The Trade Desk is Taxing Your Campaigns Into Oblivion

Let’s talk about The Trade Desk (TTD) and their latest contribution to the world of advertising—what can only be described as a budgetary black...

PubMatic Bets Big on Elon’s X: Bold Innovation or PR Suicide?

PubMatic has officially stepped into the lion’s den, announcing its partnership with Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) as its first major SSP collaborator. The...

Zeta Global: AI Hype, Data Breaches, and Damage Control

Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA), the self-proclaimed “AI-Powered Marketing Cloud,” has been spinning like a politician in a scandal. Accusations of shady practices, a public...

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How to Narrow the Scope of Information Sought by an FTC Civil Investigative Demand (CID)

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