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Each week, the AdExchanger editorial team drills into the week's most urgent headlines in digital marketing. Hosted by Executive Editor Sarah Sluis, this podcast gets listeners up to speed on the most pressing news in ad tech and beyond, with key background details and analysis.
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- 3 days ago39 min
Smart Acquisition or Frankenstack? Stagwell-Freestar and DoorDash-Instacart
It's fall, and there is M&A in the air. Two acquisitions happened this week: Stagwell bought Freestar and DoorDash bought Instacart.
- 1 weeks ago46 min
Identity Resolution Goes The Way Of The Cookie
Safari is tracking the trackers. Apple officially blocked identity resolution providers this week. Our guest, Zach Edwards, a cybersecurity researcher and the co-founder of DecryptAds, puts the decision into context. Plus: Edwards discusses his research into how programmatic channels are monetizing AI slop.
- 2 weeks ago39 min
The Auction Flip: Prebid's Plan To Swap Places With Google
Google won't have to break up its SSP and ad server. So this week, Prebid unveiled its plan to help Google fulfill the court's requirements at its annual Prebid Summit. Then: how brands are using their data in an agentic world, and why there's a rise of AI "employees."
- 3 weeks ago38 min
The Apple Bites Back
Apple has a new blocklist for data brokers and ad tech vendors that do cross-site user tracking – which could expand to include a much broader slate of ad tech and mar tech vendors across the entire ecosystem. Plus: a few thoughts on Advertising Week New York.
- Oct 1, 202637 min
Apple Takes A Bite Out Of Programmatic
Is the open web growing, dying or transforming? Plus: Apple's iOS update is blocking The Trade Desk from serving ads on Safari browsers, and how that fits into programmatic's next chapter.
- Sep 24, 202640 min
Buying CTV In The WarnerMount World
Let's talk acquisitions! The WarnerMount merger is close to being in the clear, after California and 11 other states dropped their antitrust lawsuit against the merger. Plus: Taboola bought Dianomi. Infillion bought Foursquare. We get into what all three of these companies will look like post-acquisition.
- Sep 17, 202649 min
The Trade Desk's Bumpy Ride Down
The Trade Desk's recent reduction of 15% of its workforce comes after nearly two years of challenges on Wall Street, leadership turnover and bumpy product decisions. Independent analyst Richard Kramer comes on to dissect how Wall Street views TTD – and what it got wrong in the first place.
- Sep 11, 202645 min
Auctions In The Crosshairs
Two Big Tech moments capped the summer: The FTC sued Amazon over its kinda-sorta second-price auctions, alleging it deceived SMB advertisers. And Judge Brinkema declared that Google will not have to spin off its ad server.
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