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Starting next year, Netflix plans to no longer report quarterly subscriber numbers; experts say the path forward lies in ad revenue over subscriber growth.

Netflix’s latest move shows how streaming TV is tipping toward ads

The Trade Desk's Stuart Colman shares why the world of digital advertising is bigger than the Chrome browser.

The world of digital advertising is bigger than the Chrome browser

Marketers are not surprised. Many are preparing for a post-cookie future already.

Marketers unfazed as Google delays cookie deprecation for third time

Is interoperability the key to winning the cookieless race?

The open web vs. the walled garden: Is interoperability the key to winning the cookieless race?

What’s at stake? Only the future of European media.

European broadcasters are reinventing themselves for the future of TV

Big tech is battling journalism over proposed legislation in California that would force companies like Google to pay to carry links to news articles.

Big Tech and journalism battle over proposed legislation in California

Welcome to the first Olympics in the live sports era of the streaming wars.

French advertisers eye the opportunity of a century in Paris 2024

Green media is all about delivering digital advertising more efficiently toward a carbon neutral future

What the Tech is green media?

Political media buyers need to think beyond microtargeting that simply matches the voter file and embrace a more layered approach to programmatic to reach new voters.

How political media buyers misuse programmatic

Streaming services can build audience engagement through content, leveraging machine learning and data, and by improving the advertising experience on their platforms.

Streaming platforms have attracted vast audiences. Now we need data to keep them engaged.

The distance between marketing to a consumer and their ultimate purchase is getting shorter thanks to retail media.

Delivering on customer experience demands deep data insights

Creative ad technology can help marketers both optimize campaigns and inform high-level brand strategy.

Amid cookie deprecation, we need creative signals more than ever

Ad tech innovation is fundamental to the way the open internet works, with the power to level the playing field for consumers, advertisers and publishers.

Ad tech has the power to democratize the open internet

As cookies go away, it’s not one ad tech vendor’s job to find a new solution; it must be a joint effort from the buy side to the sell side.

5 Minutes with Intent IQ’s Fabrice Beer-Gabel

NBCUniversal and the Olympics are evolving with viewers. Advertisers are responding with $1.2 billion in ad commitments and counting.

The Olympics’ role in culture is evolving, and advertisers are moving with it

Record March Madness ratings is putting women’s basketball in the spotlight, and advertisers are taking notice by increasing their media spend.

March Madness just proved the power and scale of women’s sports. Advertisers are watching.

DRAX Direct streamlines access to Disney’s streaming advertising business with The Trade Desk, as advertisers increasingly lean into connected TV (CTV).

Disney streamlines access for advertisers, aiming to automate 75% of ad revenue

NBCUniversal is opening up Peacock ads to be purchased programmatically for all streamed 329 Olympic events this year.

The ‘crème de la crème’: 2024 Paris Olympics goes programmatic on Peacock

A recent survey suggests many sports fans in the U.S. care more about their favorite sport than anything else on TV, even in the offseason.

How streamers are keeping sports fans satisfied even in the offseason

Even in a year when Barbie dominated the box office, new data shows how women are still underrepresented in Hollywood, both in front of and behind the camera.

Hollywood is leaving money on the table by not marketing more movies to women

Two of France’s biggest broadcasters to adopt alternative identifier EUID.

Streaming giants will face stiffer competition for CTV ad dollars in France

At the IAB Tech Lab’s “As the Cookie Crumbles” event, engineers and members of IAB Tech Lab’s Privacy Sandbox task force discussed their main challenges when analyzing the privacy technology.

Engineers sound off on Google’s Privacy Sandbox at IAB Tech Lab cookies event

Could retail data be the perfect expression of deterministic data?

Just for conversions? Why marketers may be missing the bigger picture on retail data.

TV has long been valued for its reach, but omnichannel strategies are showing their ability to scale

How consumer health giant Reckitt is future-proofing its marketing efforts by going omnichannel

As Generative AI rises and Google deprecates third-party cookies, digital news outlets have an opportunity to create more direct relationships with readers.

With AI looming as a threat to news sites, publishers push back

Social media remains a key source of traffic for news publishers, but changing audience preferences could bring unexpected benefits to publications.

As Meta tightens the traffic tap, where will news publications turn for audiences?

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Tech Lab concludes that Google’s Privacy Sandbox could stymie competition and impact the ad industry’s growth.

‘The industry isn’t ready yet’: A new report highlights flaws in Google’s Privacy Sandbox

Advertisers felt ‘March Madness’ after the intense demand for women’s basketball. We're breaking down why the game is breaking through.

Advertisers are taking notice of the power and scale of women’s sports after March Madness

Advertisers take notice of the power and scale of women’s sports after March Madness

On this edition of The Current Report, we're joined by Brian Mandelbaum, CEO of Attain, to discuss how Attain is harnessing commerce data.

How quality commerce data is changing the landscape for advertisers

As 2023 marked a year of brands hitting the big screen, brands are seeing the value in streaming partnerships that subvert traditional advertising

Why brand-funded shows are getting bigger on streaming

In this edition of The Current Report, we dive into another way AI is changing our world.

How AI can help combat streaming indecision

Goodway Group's Mike Wolk, VP of growth and partnerships, breaks down how the media agency is building its strategy around the biggest screen in the house - the TV.

Advertisers build their strategy around the TV screen

Major League Soccer’s VP of Brand Marketing, Jesse Perl, joins The Current Podcast to discuss how young people are growing more interested in soccer.

How MLS plans to capitalize on 2026 World Cup fever

Jennifer Lewis, chief client officer at Carat Canada, joins The Current Report to explore how changing demographics in Canada influence advertisers' strategies.

Carat Canada's Jennifer Lewis on Canada's changing TV market

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A wave of retail data is sweeping Europe, with advertisers increasingly relying on it amid cookie deprecation and an evolving regulatory landscape.

Retail data has taken over Europe. Now what?

During this year’s Forward ’24 event, advertisers shared how they are leveraging live sports as it moves into streaming.

How streaming is changing the game for live sports and advertisers

The electronics giant saw a major improvement in online to offline sales attribution after implementing a custom solution leveraging Unified ID 2.0 (UID2).

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