26 Nov

The Two Attention Challenges Marketers Face: CTV and the Open Internet

Peter Hamilton shared on LinkedIn that a colleague at Roku told him, “Social ads have a distinct advantage because advertisers are already on their platforms.” It sounds obvious, but it reveals something important about why CTV still feels unfamiliar for many brands.
The Built-In Scaffolding of ...

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01 Jul

Rethinking Identity, Rebuilding Infrastructure, and Regaining Control

I recently joined Vijay Kumar on Web Without Walls, Mile Tech’s podcast, for a conversation about the state of identity and how publishers can rebuild control in a fragmented ecosystem. We covered a lot; from why cookies aren’t disappearing anytime soon to how “curation” has quietly become anothe...

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01 Jun

Data Clean Rooms Are Not a Magic Bullet for Retail Media – Or Anyone Else for That Matter

Today’s online retailers are sitting on a goldmine of first-party data about their customers. They know so much about you: What you want, when you want it, what you spent on it, how often you buy it—and how you pay for it. It’s an awesome combination. Or rather, it could be.

Yes, some retailer...

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21 May

Why Machine-Generated Emails Are Ad Tech’s Next Nightmare

If you don’t have the email address of the person you’re targeting, your digital ad isn’t working as hard as it should. Period.

It’s no secret that if an ad isn’t associated with a persistent ID of any type (cookie, device ID or hashed email), it loses more than half its value. Regardless of w...

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