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The Trade Desk remains the dominant DSP but its advertisers are starting to shop around
The gap between The Trade Desk’s public confidence and what its advertisers describe on the ground has rarely been harder to close.
Media
How medical creator Nick Norwitz grew his Substack paid subscribers from 900 to 5,200 within 8 months
Creator Playbook: Unpacking the strategy behind medical YouTuber Nick Norwitz turning to Substack to significantly grow his brand.
Media Briefing: In the AI era, subscribers are the real prize — and the Telegraph proves it
In an era where AI is eroding referral traffic and third-party distribution, a subscriber who pays directly has become the most valuable reader a publisher can own. Springer just bought over a million of them.
Layoffs hit LADbible Group’s social video team amid slower user-generated content growth
Social-first publisher LADbible is in the middle of a second round of layoffs to its social video team, having suffered massive drop-off in Facebook video engagement.
Marketing
Customer reviews become a key battleground as AI revolutionizes product discovery
AI Platforms like ChatGPT and Perplexity are reshaping how customers discover products online.
Future of Marketing Briefing: A war, an oil spike and an ad market that can’t see what comes next
The assumptions underpinning ad growth just got a lot more complicated.
Furniture.com was built for SEO. Now it’s trying to crack AI search
Furniture.com is among many dot-com companies grappling with how AI and chatbots are changing the way shoppers search for information.
Future of TV
Future of TV Briefing: OpenX adds attention targeting for CTV ads backed by TVision
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at a new ad targeting option for CTV advertisers wary of people staring at their phones while an ad airs.
Long-form creators eye taking over TVs – and chasing bigger brand budgets
Long-form episodic creator content is drawing in large numbers of highly engaged viewers, but ad budges are lagging behind. We explore why.
Future of TV Briefing: How Paramount’s and Warner Bros. Discovery’s ad tech stacks stack up
This week’s Future of TV Briefing breaks down Paramount’s and Warner Bros. Discovery’s ad tech stacks now that the companies seem set (finally) to combine.
Media Buying
OpenAI is building the ad tech stack it’s currently borrowing
Tech companies don’t build out an internal ads org – let alone pay up to $385,000 to do it – if they’re planning to rely on outside vendors forever.
Media Buying Briefing: Overheard at DMBS Spring 2026: AI from the top to the bottom of agencies
The Town Halls revealed the most about the challenges and solutions media agencies face with integrating AI systems and processes into workflows
The Rundown: Ad tech’s performance in 2025 was overshadowed by AI concerns and Big Tech
Despite revenue increases, the markets were brutal but reports over talks with OpenAI proved later upside.
Annual research reports
Podcasts
Research
This week, I checked in on the rise of Botox and aesthetic treatments outside of the traditional dermatologist’s office. Additionally, the Trump administration reportedly stands to rake in billions of dollars from the investors who acquired TikTok’s U.S. operations, and Jo Malone is in hot water with Estée Lauder over the use of her name.
This week, I checked in on the rise of Botox and aesthetic treatments outside of the traditional dermatologist’s office. Additionally, the Trump administration reportedly stands to rake in billions of dollars from the investors who acquired TikTok’s U.S. operations, and Jo Malone is in hot water with Estée Lauder over the use of her name.
Little Spoon is launching infant formula as part of its strategy to become an end-to-end baby and kid food company.
Little Spoon is launching infant formula as part of its strategy to become an end-to-end baby and kid food company.