The Nashville Sell Side Summit theme “Beyond the Browser,” resonated with publisher concerns around AI-powered, zero-click answer engines and the need to meet audiences outside of their own websites, which are receiving less referral traffic from search and social.
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In April, when Matt McGowan joined Bell Media, Canada’s largest media and entertainment company, he came with a track record spanning both startups and corporate orgs.
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The rise of sell-side curation is a response to signal loss and a strategic reorientation of the programmatic ecosystem, one that unites data fidelity, cost efficiency and omnichannel scale in one fell swoop.
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From Apartment Therapy’s sponsor-backed tools to MotorTrend’s interactive awards and Digital Trends’ AI gamification, publishers are finding fresh ways to keep audiences engaged. Here’s how they’re turning stickiness into loyalty—and loyalty into revenue.
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When Cloudflare announced it would start blocking Perplexity AI's stealth crawling, it became a formidable gatekeeper of the open web.
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A modern measurement standard must fuse the granular, causal truth with a strategic outlook, operating at the speed of the market. Here are three considerations to ensure your measurement approach is primed to fuel success.
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Supply-side platforms are experiencing a reckoning. After years of coasting on the industry’s growth wave, they’re waking up to a brutal reality: Publishers have stopped buying their promises and started demanding proof.
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When you consider the rising costs of ad-free streaming, the shift to ad-supported platforms isn’t all that surprising. Monthly ad-free access to the top eight US streaming services now costs roughly $122.
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AdButler’s Robert Janes lays out the case for owning your audience, launching your own media network, and finally reclaiming control from middlemen who’ve had their hand in your pocket for too long.
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Pixalate’s June 2025 rankings spotlights some standouts in programmatic quality. the Here are the top premium pubs across a few key channels with some added context.
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