open internet

The Trade Desk is focusing beyond the overall “open internet” and on what CEO Jeff Green calls the “premium internet.”

The US ad market will be boring next year. In a good way. Brian Wieser predicts stabilization in 2024. But if you double-click on his numbers, there are several interesting – and somewhat disturbing – trends to note.

The Kokai upgrade is the culmination of multiyear investments in AI-driven campaign optimization, measurement, reporting and data-sharing partnerships with publishers, CTV platforms and retail media networks.

Let’s face it: The “open internet” includes a lot of good things, but also a lot of crap. And it’s a disservice to responsible media owners and content creators to bundle them in with nefarious operators that pirate content and operate solely to siphon legitimate ad dollars away through arbitrage, writes Ruben Schreurs, group chief product officer at Ebiquity.

Lots of first-time advertisers are heading to the Super Bowl this year: electric vehicle makers, crypto brands … and Criteo? It’s hard to imagine a bigger stage for a company that usually operates behind the scenes.

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jay Stocki, the data practice lead at Prohaska Consulting. When consumer data goes into a walled garden, it never comes out. Ad dollars go in, but the true measurement of the results never come out. […]