Jeff Green
Co-founder and CEO, The Trade Desk
Jeff Green co-founded The Trade Desk and runs it as chief executive. ADOTAT has covered his strategy and public statements since 2024: the push into connected TV, the rivalry with Amazon's DSP, the company's results and guidance, the 2026 stock decline and layoffs, and the shareholder vote on repricing executive options.
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ADOTAT reporting on Jeff Green
20 stories, newest first- The Trade Desk and Magnite Sold the Same Independence. Only One Is Repricing Its Options.
Magnite is up 57%. The Trade Desk is down 68%, and on Monday Jeff Green holds 50.2% of the vote on repricing 15.6 million options, 1.6 million of them his.
- Jeff Green Said Amazon's DSP Had No Upside. Trade Desk Guided Down $89 Million.
The Trade Desk's Q2 was a 3 percent quarter. The guide was the news, the take rate is still a secret, and the measurement product that would prove the whole thesis is in alpha.
- Buddy Video, or Hostage Video? How Brian Lesser's WPP Media Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Jeff Green
Why is WPP "outsourcing" its media buys to The Trade Desk?
- The Trade Desk & Jeff Green: A Covenant, an Auditor, and 48 Percent of the Vote
Jeff Green is finally worried. Here is everything he broke to get here.
- We Got the Guy Who Invented the Internet Ad to Call BS on Jeff Green
Why The ADOTAT Show opened Season 9 with John Nardone, the one man in advertising with the receipts to tell The Trade Desk to sit down.
- The Trade Desk Is Not Dead. But the Version of It That Jeff Green Built in His Head Might Be.
Will The Trade Desk make it? Honestly, we have no idea. Neither does Jeff Green. But we did the math anyway.
- Publicis vs. The Trade Desk: Nobody's Clean
The world's biggest ad agency just declared war, and it's smiling while it does it.
- And Lo, The Stock Fell 55%, And Jeff Green Looked Upon The Wreckage And Said: Actually We're Fine, And It Was Published On His Own Website
A meditation on faith, stock prices, and the surprisingly thin line between founder conviction and a hostage statement.
- The TradeDesk's Quiet Fear, Inside the Jeff Green Memos and Meetings
The threat they can no longer spin into a fairy tale.
- Why Jeff Green and The Trade Desk Are Making Agencies Nervous
How Jeff Green said the quiet part and Amazon broke the budget.
- The Trade Desk vs. Viant Part II: The War for the Pipes of Advertising
It's not about ads anymore. It's about who owns the plumbing.
- Brian O'Kelley vs. Jeff Green: The Referendum on Adtech's Soul
LinkedIn as ad tech's public square, and its funhouse mirror.
- Everyone's Lying About the Auction: Inside the Mind of Jeff Green
The exchange illusion: everyone's a sheriff, and everyone's dirty.
- WTF is TradeDesk Derangement Syndrome and PubDesk?
Everyone's catching "Trade Desk Derangement Syndrome," at least per Mike O'Sullivan.
- Jeff Green vs. John Nardone: The Gospel Clash of Programmatic
The Trade Desk's open internet meets Nardone's reality check.
- The Jeff Wars: Jeff Green vs. Jeff Bezos
From Wall Street darling to cornered strategist, The Trade Desk is learning that the open internet is a smaller battlefield than Jeff Green ever planned for.
- The Trade Desk Doesn't Need You. They Just Haven't Told You Yet.
Inside the agency bypass blueprint that's already live.
- The Trade Desk: From Industry Darling to "It's Not Me, It's You"
Someone check if Jeff Green's reading "Eat, Pray, Love."
- Special Report: The Trade Desk's CTV Hustle
Building empires with borrowed bricks and bold gambits.
- Jeff Green's Identity Crisis: The Trade Desk Becomes an Ad Network
The Trade Desk just threw us a curveball by pivoting to become an advertising network. The beloved DSP, which marketers used for buying digital ads, is now diving into the world of ad networks.
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17 stories- Wire & File: Apple Wrote The Trade Desk's Rules. A Jury Wrote Meta's. Dailymotion Wrote A New Name.
Safari locked out The Trade Desk while Google's bids cleared, New Mexico priced Meta's privacy promise at 43 million violations, and Dailymotion rebranded its way past its traffic questions.
- The Trade Desk Says It's a Platform. It's an Ad Broker.
Thirty years ago, anyone who sold inventory they didn't own was called a broker. The ANA found 29 cents of every DSP dollar goes to the middle, and The Trade Desk still can't show buyers the segment earned its cut.
- Trade Desk Turned Off Its "Fundamental Reinvention." It Named That Zuma.
The signature feature of Kokai is now a checkbox you can uncheck. The stock is down ninety percent. The guy who ran their TV operating system left to run a fake supermarket in Las Vegas.
- Made Together Has One Episode. WPP Media Keeps Welcoming You to It.
A series earns the noun by producing a second one. What WPP Media has is a single photograph being waved at a window, captioned "welcome," four times running.
- The Trade Desk Croutons Came Back
An analyst asked Jeff Green what The Trade Desk charges. He described a hypothetical bullshit sandwich. Everyone thanked him and moved on.
- Report: The Trade Desk Disclosure Gap
A three-part investigation into the audit Publicis couldn't finish, the litigation past dismissal, and the governance locked until 2035.
- The Trade Desk Under Pressure: Growth, Control, and the Cost of Trust
January's report, updated. The people who read the full report made moves.
- The TradeDesk: Open Everything, Win Nothing
The "Open" prefix is not a feature. It's a therapy session.
- The TradeDesk Finally Wakes Up: The Mix Shift Panic Under the Hood
The take-rate fixation: comfort food for people afraid of the real story.
- Weekly Review: The Trade Desk's Existential Crisis, Publicis vs. Omnicom, and More
DSP turf wars, privacy theater, and the creator economy's new algorithm overlords.
- Special Report: Viant vs. The Trade Desk, The Adtech Battle Royale Begins
Viant's got the match. The Trade Desk built the fuse.
- Special Report: The Vanderhooks and Viant's Secret Playbook
Betting big on The Trade Desk's stumble.
- Week in Review: Trump, TikTok, Trade Desk, and the Contextual Comeback
Trump, TikTok and trade wars: dancing on the edge of a ban.
- The Trade Desk's Ventura: Shaking Up CTV or Just Stirring the Pot?
The Trade Desk announced Ventura, its new TV operating system, a power grab aimed squarely at the walled gardens of Roku, Amazon and Google.
- From ESPN to Clickbait: The Trade Desk's Curated List of Digital Darlings
The Trade Desk unveiled its list of the top 100 premium publishers across the open internet. What's the real scoop behind the curated list?
- Tech Titans on the Turf: The Trade Desk's Offensive Against Google
The Trade Desk and Google are rival teams in a league where the rules keep changing, and The Trade Desk's CMO says Google has to "bribe companies."
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