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Comic: The Shift to Transparency
By Nate Neal
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Describing Google’s revenue growth has become a problem, it so vastly outpaces the human capacity to understand large numbers and percentage growth rates. The company earned more than $113 billion in Q4 2025, and more than $400 billion in the past year.
BBC Studios Benchmarks Its Podcasts To See How They Really Stack Up
Triton Digital’s new tool lets publishers see how their audience size compares to other podcasts at the show and episode level.
People Inc. Says Who Needs Google?
People Inc. is offsetting a 50% decline in Google search traffic through off-platform growth and its highest digital revenue gains in five quarters.
The MRC Wants Ad Tech To Get Honest About How Auctions Really Work
The MRC’s auction transparency standards aren’t intended to force every programmatic platform to use the same auction playbook – but platforms do have to adopt some controversial OpenRTB specs to get certified.
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SSPs have mostly either applauded or downplayed the recent crackdown on CTV resellers, but smaller publishers see it as another revenue squeeze.
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People Inc. Says Who Needs Google?
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Amazon Ads Opens A Beta Test For Its New MCP Server
Amazon Ads’ MCP server is in open beta, allowing advertisers to connect their own tools to its API functionalities through one integration.
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OPINION: On TV & VideoWhy 'Performance CTV' Is A Misnomer: TV Works Best As A Full-Funnel Channel
“Performance CTV” oversimplifies how television actually drives value, and the focus on performance all but guarantees that campaign results will be misinterpreted.
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IAB CEO David Cohen: 'The Health of the Publisher Community is Critical to the Health of Our Overall Business.'
On stage at the IAB’s Annual Leadership Meeting, IAB CEO David Cohen tore into AI companies, accusing them of “free riding” on publishers’ work – and calling it “stealing.”