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The winners and losers of Google’s third-party cookie reversal

Fair warning: the ground is still shifting under this thing so consider this list more “hot take” than holy writ.

At industry conference, Google tries to salvage the Privacy sandbox after U-turn on third-party cookies

Privacy Sandbox reps are attempting to tee up optimism at the Possible conference in Miami, a week after Google’s mic-drop announcement.

Media

Media Briefing: ‘Cloudflare is locking the door’: Publishers celebrate victory against AI bot crawlers 

After years of miserably watching their content get ransacked for free by millions of unidentified AI bot crawlers, publishers were finally thrown a viable lifeline. 

Here are the biggest misconceptions about AI content scraping

An increase in bots scraping content from publishers’ sites represents a huge threat to their businesses. But scraping for AI training and scraping for real-time outputs present different challenges and opportunities.

How Future is using its own AI engine to turn deeper engagement into ad dollars 

Future is betting on AI to boost recirculation – and make that stickier audience more appealing to advertisers.

Marketing

Agencies create specialist units to help marketers’ solve for AI search gatekeepers

Wpromote, Kepler and Jellyfish practices aim to illuminate impact of black box LLMs’ understanding of brands search and social efforts.

Ad Tech Briefing: Start-ups are now table stakes for the future of ad tech

Scaled ad tech companies need to maintain relationships with startups, when the sector is experiencing ongoing disruption due to AI.

Inside Kristi Argyilan’s RMN playbook: Lessons from the ‘godmother’ of retail media

Uber’s global head of advertising Kristi Argyilan says the future of retail media hinges on real-time relevance, brand differentiation, and breaking free from a one-size-fits-all playbook.

Future of TV

Future of TV Briefing: TV is YouTube’s top screen — except when counting views and among Gen Z viewers

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how mobile still accounts for an overwhelming majority of YouTube video views and why some Gen Z viewers aren’t tuning into YouTube on TV screens.

YouTube vs. TikTok vs. Instagram: What Gen Z really watches in 2025

At VidCon 2025, more than a dozen Gen Z attendees weighed in on the video apps they are most and least likely to watch.

Future of TV Briefing: YouTube gives a peek at how its recommendation algorithms work

This week’s Future of TV Briefing recaps a VidCon session during which YouTube executives and creators unpacked the video platform’s recommendation engine.

Media Buying

As Integral Ad Science marks its fourth anniversary on the Nasdaq, speculation mounts over its future

Efforts are underway to take IAS private but there are varying levels of interest from private equity groups.

Media Buying Briefing: Two years later, media buyers still aren’t fully sold on The Trade Desk’s Kokai platform

Two years after its launch, The Trade Desk’s Kokai tool has acquired a mixed reputation among the agency media buyers it was designed for.

The Rundown: The regulatory hurdles still in the way of the Omnicom-IPG merger

British, Australian and EU regulators are all looking into mega agency merger.


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