The Big Story

After Temu’s 5+ Super Bowl ads and billions in ad spending, will people shop like a billionaire? We discuss the strange profligacy of the discount shopping app.

The gap analysis of the Privacy Sandbox is out. And the gap is…large. Then, a case for why hype about first-party data hasn’t been matched in reality.

The podcast discusses the ad tech industry's response to the death of third-party cookies, including the stages of grief. It also covers key takeaways from the FTC's AI tech summit, emerging trends in digital marketing, data privacy, harm caused by social media, the shift to CTV advertising, and competition concerns in the generative AI space.

Getting personalization right remains tricky, and AI will only make it trickier. Then, inside Privacy Sandbox testing and the rise of curation tech.

This week’s theme is programmatic excess. We start with bid duplication and end with VideoAmp’s fall back to Earth.

As the ad world descends upon Vegas for CES, streaming services from Netflix to Amazon to Disney are turning out in force. Then, all the intrigue unearthed from the lawsuit that pitted LG Electronics against the startup it acquired, Alphonso (now LG Ads).

The end of third-party cookies is upon us, and independent ad tech is diverging on the best approach for cookieless targeting. Meanwhile, agencies and marketers are zooming out from programmatic to a bigger picture that’s focused on first-party data.

In 2023, supply-path optimization took off, brands took their scalpels to made-for-advertising websites and DSPs and SSPs launched SPO products to cut down on hops. Plus: lessons from the year in data privacy.

Marketers are choosing either Nielsen or alternative currencies (or both) for TV measurement. Learn what’s ahead for alternative currencies in 2024. Plus: the latest outlook on programmatic audio.

Marketers are wasting 25% of their ad spend on inefficiencies and made-for-advertising websites, and the ANA thinks consolidation and education are the solutions. Plus: In 2024, ad spend will grow, but at a slower rate than 2023. And streamers will grapple with CTV’s rising ad spend and linear TV’s accelerating decline.