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Sept. 5, 2023

Digital Remedy - Managed services 4EVAH

Digital Remedy (formerly CPXi) has spun gold for 23 years by providing a managed-service model for digital advertising. From its origins as an ad network, the company has evolved to offer media execution, attribution, and analytics for campaigns that span all digital media — including desktop, mobile, audio, CTV, and…

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Aug. 30, 2023

Episode 36: Krzysztof from Adalytics has Google on the ropes. Keith Petri justifies his existence.

Krzysztof Franaszek from Adalytics has published two bombshell reports just this summer pointing out problems with Google's ad products. We go into depth on the tech and issues involved. Also we have a brand new segment, "Justify Your Existence" where start-ups tell us why we should care.

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Aug. 28, 2023

Basis - Buying and workflow tools for mid-market agencies

Formerly known as Centro, Basis has been around longer than pretty much any other ad tech company. Its customers are primarily mid-market agencies who use it to manage a host of processes — including planning and buying media across search, social, CTV programmatic, radio, and other ad types. Basis also…

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Aug. 25, 2023

Episode 35: Lisa Utzschneider on the future of IAS and the X integration

Lisa Utzschneider, CEO of IAS, talks about the company, it's recent deal with X.com, how it scans TikTok and MFA. Each week we'll bring you the latest news and perspective about advertising technology, trends, and insights, along with special guests. In this episode: GroupM drops MFA sites MediaMath to be…

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Aug. 21, 2023

Acast - Podcast hosting, ad monetization and paywall tech for large and small publishers.

Acast helps publishers of all sizes make money from podcasting. Its customer list includes bold-faced names like WTF with Marc Maron, The Blindboy Podcast, The Guardian’s weekly football show, and mid- and long-tail podcasters. Founded in Sweden, Acast has since expanded to the US, UK, and Europe. CEO Ross Adams…

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Aug. 18, 2023

Episode 34: Why 4 out of 5 dentists prefer Keith Gooberman's DSP

Keith Gooberman of Programmatic Mechanics joins us to tell us how and why he built a new DSP and how this involves roaming packs of dentists. Also: JoeZ is back The Cognitiv juggernaut Are MFA sites actually bad, or no?

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Aug. 14, 2023

Spreaker (from IHeart) - A spectrum of podcast monetization tools

Acquired by iHeartMedia in 2020, Spreaker offers a range of production, hosting and monetization tools for mid-market podcast publishers. Its advertising capabilities include an exchange, ad server, and yield management capabilities. In our interview, Bryan Barletta speaks with Founder and CEO Francesco Baschieri about the platform and its use cases.…

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Aug. 11, 2023

Episode 33: Is fundraising for ad tech companies even possible?

Fundraising for ad tech is difficult in any environment. But these brave CEOs have jumped right in. Eric and Ari are joined by Mathieu Roche of ID3 and James Avery of Kevel to talk about the current fundraising environment. Also in this episode: * The "other" Google antitrust case moves…

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Aug. 7, 2023

Nexxen - The ultimate ad tech roll-up

Ad platform Nexxen was formed through the merger of Amobee, Tremor Video, and Unruly, each of which had previously acquired multiple ad tech assets. The company serves advertisers and media sellers with planning, activation, measurement, monetization, and optimization tools spanning CTV, linear, and digital media environments. In our interview, Chief…

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Aug. 4, 2023

Magellan AI - Ad planning and intelligence tools for podcast media

Magellan offers podcast-specific media planning, ad intelligence and performance measurement tools. In our interview, Co-founder Cameron Hendrix makes the case that Magellan’s index provides the best and most accurate reflection of the podcast advertising market overall. This is a free excerpt from the full conversation. To see the longer version…

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Aug. 4, 2023

Episode 32: Dave Morgan drops TV wisdom, plus Scibids-DV

Ari and Eric are joined by Simulmedia's Dave Morgan, who schools us on the latest ins and outs of the TV business.

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July 28, 2023

Episode 31: Lara O'Reilly on the MediaMath beat

Insider senior correspondent Lara O'Reilly joins to talk everything MediaMath. Plus all the tech earning reports and France comes after Apple. Visit Marketecture.tv to join our community and get access to full-length in-depth interviews.

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July 24, 2023

How Lumen Research’s eye-tracking tech measures attention

Lumen’s opted-in audience panels track visual attention by using a phone or computer's camera to identify whether a person views an ad, along with other metrics. Managing director Mike Follett talks with Marketecture’s Mike Shields about the platform and its applications for creative testing, media optimization, and more. This is…

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July 21, 2023

Episode 30: The TV 📺 Episode with Alan Wolk

Ari and Eric are joined by Alan Wolk, founder of TVREV, the leading newsletter covering the TV business. We talk about the strike, Netlfix, sports rights, and more. In this episode: Disney considers selling TV assets: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/13/disney-ceo-iger-opens-door-to-unloading-tv-assets.html Netflix earnings: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/20/netflix-stock-revenue-growth-clarity.html TTD in the Nasdaq 100: https://www.adexchanger.com/ad-exchange-news/monday-07172023/ Google Genesis: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/business/google-artificial-intelligence-news-articles.html

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July 17, 2023

Sonnant - AI monetization tools for radio and podcasts

Sonnant uses transcripts to generate contextual understanding of a publisher’s audio content. It can then use that information to identify ad insertion opportunities, score a show’s brand safety and suitability, and more. Sonnant CEO Tony Simmons walks through the company’s product and use cases. This is a free excerpt from…

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July 14, 2023

Episode 29: TripleLift CEO Dave Clark on Native, SSPs, and CTV. Plus, Joost!

TripleLift CEO Dave Clark talks about what makes the company different, and how he sees the CTV business evolving. Also we go down memory lane and talk about once high-flying ad tech star, Joost. In this episode: Massachusetts looks to ban location data: https://www.wsj.com/articles/first-u-s-ban-on-sale-of-cellphone-location-data-might-be-coming-fbe47e53 Ad tech jobs crater: https://www.adweek.com/media/ad-tech-job-openings-crater-in-2023/ Freewheel…

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July 10, 2023

BidSwitch offers one API call to rule all bid requests

Created by IPONWEB, BidSwitch is a 10-year-old technology (now nested under Criteo, which bought IPONWEB last year) that helps programmatic platforms overcome the inefficiencies inherent in interconnected bidding and supply systems. BidSwitch’s new product, LiteSwitch, helps sellers save money by replacing the inefficiency of OpenRTB bid requests with a single…

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July 7, 2023

Episode 28: Nandini Jammi of Check My Ads says "Google is the worst!"

Ari and Eric are joined by Nandini Jammi, the bomb throwing crusader against ad-supported disinformation and the co-founder of Check My Ads. In this episode: * MediaMath collapse, one week later * The government is not allowed to police social networks: https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/tech/biden-administration-social-media-companies-communication-covid-censorship/index.html

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June 30, 2023

Episode 26: Privacy Expert Alan Chapell says "Marketers are F-ed"

Ari Paparo and Eric Franchi get all the latest privacy and data protection news from Alan Chapell, Chairman of the NAI, and author of the Chappell Report. We also go into some depth on the latest ad quality scandal from Google. In this episode: Google selling low-quality video ads: https://archive.fo/thXPF…

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June 26, 2023

MowPod - Ad tools for podcast owners

MowPod is a podcast ad platform from newsletter marketing company MowMedia. It uses programmatic ad tools and data integrations to help podcast owners — including both large media clients and branded podcasts — drive engagement and downloads of their audio content. The company offers both an enterprise-level and a self-serve…

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June 23, 2023

Episode 25: Antonio Garcia-Martinez builds attribution for Web3

Ari and Eric are joined by Antonio Garcia-Martinez, author of undoubtedly the best (perhaps the only) ad tech memoir, Chaos Monkeys. He's building attribution for Web3 and convinces Ari it's actually a good idea. Also, apparently Zuck is about to murder Elon in the ring. Also: NBC CTV marketplace: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/cannes-lions-nbcuniversal-comcast-advertising-buy-multi-market-1235518791-1235518791/…

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June 20, 2023

Sovrn gives an update on its 4 ad products for indie publishers

Sovrn’s solutions include an exchange (its original business), a data product, an ad management suite, and affiliate tools. Some of its customers maintain traditional properties (web and apps), while others operate entirely on Instagram, YouTube, and other distributed platforms. It works with both large and mid-tail publishers. In this interview…

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June 16, 2023

Marketecture Ep 24: The one and only Joe Zawadski

The godfather of programmatic, Joe Zawadzki, joins Eric and Ari to talk about venture investing in ad tech, his new company FxM, MediaMath, and more. Plus, the EU tries to break-up Google, and MadHive scores $300 million from Goldman Sachs.

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June 12, 2023

Viant believes DSPs should be DSPs

Viant is a 24-plus-year-old, scaled ad tech company that has gone through many permutations. From its roots, as an ad network called Specific Media, the company acquired the social network MySpace and later Adelphic to become a full-fledged DSP. And it’s now reportedly in merger talks with MediaMath to further…

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