For three weeks, Marketecture Media CEO, veteran ad tech executive and podcaster Ari Paparo sat in a Virginia courtroom listening to testimony in the US Department of Justice’s landmark antitrust case against Google.
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Look, I know the IAB Tech Lab has been a thorn in your side. You’ve raised your hand in working groups, waited on specs that stalled, and wondered—was any of this really built with publishers in mind? You’re not alone. But last week at the IAB Tech Lab Summit, it…
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Major holding companies and even some publishers are pulling back from LGBTQ+ issues and content under mounting political pressure. Zach Rosen, founder of Supernova, an ad tech growth consultancy, is running in the other direction. He created Supernova PRIDE Summit, the first of its kind, during Cannes Lions.
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Publishers are done with the patchwork pain of order-to-cash—from manual pacing updates to reconciliation gridlock. Here’s why ad ops leaders are turning to automation to transform the process.
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When publishers stop waiting for better tech and start building it themselves, the ad stack starts to shift toward transparency, control, and equity. Stephanie Layser, Justin Wohl, and Justin Barton are bringing lived experience to the table, reshaping tools that put the sell side first.
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At POSSIBLE 2025, VaynerMedia’s John Terrana talked to AdMonsters about what most media teams get wrong about attention—and what it really takes to build performance-driven plans that keep up with culture.
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I usually write on the publisher side, so I felt like a secret agent among many brands and agencies at Programmatic IO 2025. And I got some top-secret publisher intel you can deploy.
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As digital media shifts beneath our feet, the latest earnings from major players like The New York Times, ESPN, and Roku show how publishers survive or thrive through trying times.
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Publishers aren’t celebrating the Google antitrust ruling. It just confirmed their reality. From floor pricing frustrations to platform lock-in, they’re done waiting for structural change. They're ready to reclaim control: one lever, one partner, one practice at a time.
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Generative AI is quickly becoming the way people search, discover and shop. More platforms now offer end-to-end customer journeys that start with a question and end with a purchase, no clicks required.
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