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Higher Programmatic CPMs Drove 44% Revenue Growth For The Guardian US

The Guardian US grew its programmatic revenue by 44% year over year in February. The lift came from higher effective CPMs across both the open exchange and private marketplace deals.

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AI Helps Manscaped Trim Social Chatter Down To The Bare Essentials

Meet Clamor, a new social listening product that pulls cultural insights from online conversations in real time. Clamor helped Manscaped freshen up its marketing, including for this year’s Super Bowl.

Jean-Paul Schmetz, Chief of Ads, Brave

Why Ad-Blocking Browser Brave Introduced Its Own Ads

Brave’s chief of ads Jean-Paul Schmetz on competition in the search and browser markets, the fallout from the Google Search antitrust ruling and whether AI search will help smaller upstarts compete with Big Tech.

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Vizio Helps Walmart Cut A Bigger Slice Of The CTV Ad Pie

Walmart and Vizio announced at NewFronts that unified account logins are coming to smart TVs using Vizio’s operating system.

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Carl’s Jr. And Hardee’s Marketing Goes Regional With Amazon Ads’ Streaming Media

The age-old question for streaming TV advertisers is, how to target the viewers they want while reaching the scale their businesses need. The quick-serve restaurant operator CKE, which owns Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s, sought an answer in a case study with Attain and Amazon Ads.

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America’s Test Kitchen Puts Direct And Programmatic Access On Its Menu

America’s Test Kitchen introduced direct and programmatic buying for its free ad-supported TV channels – marking the first time it’s selling ad inventory as a standalone package.

The Rise Of Principal Media And The End Of The Agencies As We Knew Them

Ad agency holding companies are among the most adaptable businesses out there. In recent years holdcos like Publicis, WPP and Omnicom-IPG have stretched our notions of what an agency business even is exactly.

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Sussing Out ‘Performance TV’

Can connected TV really deliver performance – or is “performance TV” just a branding boost with extra data? Erin Firneno, SVP of business intelligence at Advertiser Perceptions, weighs in.

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Ad Tech’s Off-Broadway Debut

The NewFronts, digital video’s week of splashy sales pitches, is in full swing. Our reporters share what they learned on the ground. Plus: What can ad tech learn from Data, a new off-Broadway play?