By Luba Giglia, COO, AdOmni With the First Four tipping off Tuesday, March Madness is once again creating one of the most concentrated live sports moments of the year. Fan attention becomes unusually concentrated across screens, cities, and shared spaces, creating a powerful opportunity for advertisers to tap into real-time, multi-screen attention as every […]
Who Will Own the Rails? Holding Companies, Identity Providers, and Cloud Data Platforms Build Alternative to Walled Gardens By Rick Erwin, CEO, Adstra The battle for walled garden interoperability isn’t about media spend anymore – it’s about who controls the infrastructure. While Google, Meta, and Amazon lock down their ecosystems, a parallel universe is […]
By Rowena Lam, Senior Director of Product at IAB Tech Lab Everyone is excited about AI agents that autonomously create campaigns, discover optimal placement, execute strategies, optimize performance, and report results. They do all this while communicating with other agents to complete transactions. It’s automation at scale. It sounds great. The one word almost completely […]
By Fiona Salmon, Managing Director at Mantis Content moderation has become one of the most heated topics in digital media. Since 2025, several steps have been taken in the US in line with the Trump administration’s views on free speech, including relaxing fact-checking processes for Facebook and YouTube, and the recent decision to […]
The lines between retail media and premium video are disappearing fast – and the convergence of retail data and premium streaming is reshaping how marketers define audiences, measure success and drive real-world sales lift. Cynopsis asked Molly Ryan, Director of Agency Partnerships, Kroger Precision Marketing, for her take. You work at the intersection of retail […]
By Alyssa Boyle This piece was originally published on Chief Marketer Network brand AdExchanger. Convergent TV World conference is taking place on March 5-6 in New York City. Click here to register. “Transitional.” “Developing.” “Work-in-progress.” Those are the best descriptions of the current state of TV and video convergence, […]
By Murry Woronoff, Director of Research at Adtaxi Every year, brands invest billions to align themselves with the world’s biggest sports moments, from the Super Bowl to the Winter Olympics, the FIFA World Cup, and the NBA Finals. The promise is scale. Emotion. Cultural relevance. But here’s the uncomfortable truth revealed by consumer research: […]
By Brian Silver, EVP of Global Marketing Solutions at TransUnion At CES this year, AI was everywhere. But the thing that stood out most was not a flashy demo or a new use case. It was a statistic: 60 percent of AI projects will be abandoned this year because companies are not ready from […]
Connected TV was supposed to fix what traditional television never could: opaque measurement, broad assumptions, and probabilistic outcomes built on GRPs. And in many ways, it has. But the real question is not whether CTV is more measurable than linear TV — it clearly is. The more meaningful debate is whether CTV measurement has truly […]
The industry keeps saying CTV’s supply chain needs to be “cleaned up.” Fewer intermediaries. Fewer pipes. More “direct” paths. The assumption is that complexity itself is the problem — that if we flatten the ecosystem, transparency and efficiency will follow. But what if complexity isn’t dysfunction? What if it’s simply the structural reality of how […]
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