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Enjoy this weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem … 

The question isn’t whether Google will fall, but whether its time is near. And, if so, what will finally bring it down?

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pulling The Strings  Disney-owned TV channels went dark on Charter Spectrum last week when the two companies failed to reach an agreement on a new carriage pact, Variety reports. The blackout affected over 25 networks, including ESPN. It was particularly bad timing, too: […]

The Department of Justice wants to break up Google’s ad tech stack. But how would separating Google’s publisher technology into a standalone entity affect the ad ecosystem? There are pros and cons.

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Shiv Gupta, founder at U of Digital. Marketers eventually get tired of being fed BS by their partners, and start to BS back. Time and time again, vendors have been caught […]

The ad tech industry is innovative, resourceful, agile – and so full of BS that it’s become a meme. Ad tech vendors often boast about their scale, claim that their solutions have HAL 9000-level AI and gloss over the difference between correlation and causation. In some cases, they’re purposely trying to obfuscate and overcomplicate what they […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Shiv Gupta, founder at U of Digital. Ad tech is full of BS. Why is that? Because when companies create confusion about their products, to make themselves sound more advanced than […]