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Moving Beyond IDs
For years, digital advertising relied on user IDs (cookies, device IDs, hashed emails) to find and follow audiences. But as those...
Kyle Kuchera
8 minutes ago2 min read


Curation Without Tech, Is Just an Ad Network
For years, ad networks promised “premium inventory” and “hand-selected placements.” It sounded great—until buyers realized there was...
Kyle Kuchera
7 days ago2 min read


AI Overviews and the Traffic Cliff
At Digiday DPS, the chatter wasn’t about privacy or Core Web Vitals, it was about AI Overviews. Search engines are increasingly serving...
Kyle Kuchera
Sep 222 min read


AI and Transparency: Why the Two Need to Grow Up Together
Everywhere you turn in ad tech, someone’s launching a new AI tool promising smarter targeting, faster optimization, or better ROI. It...
Kyle Kuchera
Sep 152 min read


Retail Media: Where Ad Dollars Finally Meet Real Results
Retail media is rewriting the rules of digital advertising. By the end of 2025, nearly 90% of digital display ads will be bought...
Kyle Kuchera
Sep 81 min read


Data & Curation Platforms: Value Drivers or Vanity Metrics?
The ad tech space is full of big promises and shiny terminology. Words like “omnichannel,” “identity resolution,” and “precision...
Kyle Kuchera
Sep 12 min read


Context That Earns Attention
How Mavern and SignalTap make relevance and clean supply work together The signal that moves people isn’t a profile, it’s the moment....
Kyle Kuchera
Aug 253 min read


Fall 2025 Tentpoles on CTV: How Smarter Buying Is Driving Better Deals
Q4 is when everything tightens...budgets, timelines, and the margin for error. And if you’re planning to win the holidays, your CTV...
Noah Held
Aug 192 min read


Stop Buying “Sorta CTV”
How Curation, Clean Supply, and Feedback Loops Are Resetting the CTV Market Why This Matters Now CTV is finally delivering the scale,...
Kyle Kuchera
Aug 123 min read


GenAI and the Next Phase of Contextual Creativity in Programmatic
Creative has historically lagged behind in programmatic strategy. While media buying has become increasingly automated and...
Kyle Kuchera
Aug 42 min read


Context Is the Strategy, Not a Side Feature
Let’s be clear. Programmatic has never been short on tools. But the real unlock isn’t just better tech, it’s better signal. And in CTV,...
Kyle Kuchera
Jul 294 min read


SPO: Why It Matters Now More Than Ever
Programmatic is getting smarter, but it’s also getting noisier. More inventory, more players, more layers. That’s led to a paradox:...
Kyle Kuchera
Jul 223 min read


In Flight Optimization Is the Edge
Responsive and mid flight. SignalTap optimizes while campaigns run, not after
Kyle Kuchera
Jul 153 min read


AI Changed How We Browse...And It’s Reshaping the Ad Market in Real Time
If you’re still optimizing campaigns like it’s 2022, you're probably behind. The way people move through the open web has fundamentally...
Kyle Kuchera
Jul 73 min read


Why “Clean Premium” CTV Just Had Its Cannes Moment
1. Shaken by supply, staged by strategy CTV spend is surging—brands are migrating en masse—but CPMs are dipping. Digiday reports rates...
Noah Held
Jun 302 min read


Turning Buyer Clues Into Campaign Wins
Programmatic has matured past the point of just chasing impressions. Today, success hinges on understanding what really drives action—and...
Kyle Kuchera
Jun 223 min read


Q3 Tentpole Season is Here (Time to Get Smart About CTV)
Q3 Tentpole Season is Here
Kyle Kuchera
Jun 162 min read


CTV & FAST: The New Face of TV
The way people watch TV has changed. It's no longer just about prime time. It’s about your time—streamed, paused, binged, or...
Kyle Kuchera
Jun 103 min read


So, What's In Your PMPs?!
Why Radical Transparency Is Reshaping Programmatic Curation We’re deep into the curation boom. Everyone has a PMP strategy. Everyone...
Kyle Kuchera
Jun 22 min read


From Keywords to Context: How Real AI Is Reshaping Programmatic Targeting
Most contextual targeting still clings to keywords. But our brains don’t work that way, and neither should your media strategy. At...
Kyle Kuchera
May 262 min read

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