Join us Dec. 1-3 in Nashville for the Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit
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Brace yourselves for a list of what’s momentarily in vogue and what’s desperately clinging to its last gasp of relevance. Let the cynicism commence as we navigate through the ever-fleeting currents of the advertising world.

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