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Investors Sour On Programmatic After The Trade Desk Fumbles A Question About Amazon
When The Trade Desk sneezes, ad tech catches a cold.
The LG Ads Legal Saga Continues With A Fresh Suit, This Time Against Kroll
Alphonso co-founder Lampros Kalampoukas is suing Kroll for allegedly undervaluing the company by nearly $100 million to aid LG Electronics in a shareholder dispute.
The Startup Trying To Automate The Ad Platform Reconciliation And Refund Mess
The ad tech startup Vaudit, founded last year by Mike Hahn, aims to automate the process of campaign reconciliation atop major ad platforms.
The Trade Desk Lays Out Its Case To Beat Walled Gardens. Does Wall Street Buy It?
The Trade Desk continued its shaky 2025 earnings schedule when it reported Q2 results on Thursday.
Magnite Targets CTV, SMBs And Google's SSP Market Share
The SSP is betting on the DOJ’s antitrust remedies, plus closer relationships with agencies, DSPs and mid-sized advertisers, to help it eat some of Google’s lunch.
Zillow Pilots Containerized RTB, As It Rethinks The Equation Of Quality And Cost
Zillow is the pilot brand advertiser to test a new programmatic buying strategy known as containerized RTB. The strategy embeds the DSP or ad-buying platform intelligence, in this case the startup Chalice Custom Algorithms, within the SSP, which is Index Exchange.
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LiveRamp Exec Adam Paul Talks Scaling Context In CTV Audiences
According to Adam Paul, executive director of media alliances at LiveRamp, the old-school programmatic ads – the ones bought across multiple platforms without regard to context or audience – are underperforming on CTV these days.
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The Trade Desk Pile-On Continues; Sell Side, Meet The Salesmakers
Walmart Connect’s deal with The Trade Desk isn’t so exclusive anymore; Amazon is competing with everyone except publishers; and Meta’s chatbots don’t exactly inspire confidence in the company’s ability to deliver effective AI tools.
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PODCAST: The Big StoryWhen The Trade Desk Dips, Ad Tech Drops
The Trade Desk has won the battle for supremacy on the open internet, says Needham & Company’s Laura Martin. But it might just be losing the war for the future of the web to walled gardens and AI search.
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingThe Trade Desk’s Blue Ocean Moment: How The DSP Can Rewrite Ad Tech’s Rules
The competitive set has shifted and it’s stacked against independent DSPs. But, instead of chasing what competitors already own, TTD can own what they can’t: trust.
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Investors Sour On Programmatic After The Trade Desk Fumbles A Question About Amazon
When The Trade Desk sneezes, ad tech catches a cold.