The Week in Tech: Instagram goes long and Microsoft makes an offer you can refuse
Instagram now allows up to 10‑minute videos per post, expanding ad format possibilities. Microsoft unveiled an AI‑driven campaign tool aimed at helping advertisers optimise budgets. Both changes impact creative strategy and media planning.
With Instagram's introduction of longer video formats, we can explore more diverse video ad formats for our influencer-driven live commerce strategy, leveraging them for campaigns designed to enhance engagement.
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Marketbridge Acquires The B2B Advertising And Analytics Startup Channel99
Marketbridge purchased Channel99, a DSP focused on B2B advertisers, gaining access to niche data sets and specialized inventory. The integration promises advanced segmentation and richer performance reporting for agency clients.
As agencies acquire B2B ad DSPs with niche data and advanced segmentation capabilities, we recognize the importance of strengthening granular targeting and comprehensive reporting features for agencies in our brand budget acquisition strategy.
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Programmatic, FAST And Queerness – The Trifecta Of Revry’s Future
Revry, an LGBTQ‑focused streaming service, plans to monetize through programmatic video ads using a FAST (Free Ad‑Supported Streaming TV) model and is expanding its marketplace offerings. Early tests suggest high reach at relatively low CPMs.
Given that a niche FAST service is achieving high reach at low CPMs with programmatic video ads, we should explore opportunities to efficiently leverage niche video ad inventory for external collaboration products like TDA-EXP.
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“Future of TV Briefing: CTV advertising has a genre‑label problem”
The article outlines how genre labeling for Connected TV inventory is fragmented—labels such as “Entertainment” or “News” are applied inconsistently, creating confusion for buyers and complicating price negotiations. It calls for industry‑wide standardization to make buying decisions more transparent.
With fragmented genre classification noted in Connected TV ad inventory, we recognize that transparent classification and standardization of measurement metrics are essential for effective media buying in our CTV ad strategy aimed at acquiring brand budgets.
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Comcast Advertising Reveals Insights Amid Record-Breaking Midterm Political Ad Spend
Comcast Advertising reports that political ad spend during the 2026 midterm elections reached an all‑time high, highlighting the growing importance of cross‑screen targeting and a blend of TV and digital placements driven by data. The analysis urges advertisers to adopt new measurement metrics and expand reach across multiple channels.
With record political ad spending highlighting the importance of data-driven cross-screen targeting and TV/digital integration, we reconfirm that expanding reach across diverse channels and adopting new measurement metrics are essential for our brand budget acquisition and cross-product reporting strategies.
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IAB Tech Lab Gives Ad Tech Until November 23 to Review Live Event Ad Guide
The IAB Tech Lab released a draft guide for live‑event advertising, asking DSPs and SSPs to poll every 15‑30 seconds during peak moments with a default limit of 1,000 calls per hour. The industry has until Nov 23 to submit feedback on gaps in the specification.
As the IAB Tech Lab's draft guidelines for live event advertising propose specific polling requirements for DSPs/SSPs, we will monitor the importance of technical responsiveness and efficient ad inventory acquisition in real-time delivery for our external ad products, including RPP-Ex.
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StackAdapt lets advertisers retarget ChatGPT ad viewers on CTV and display
StackAdapt's DSP now enables advertisers to build retargeting segments around viewers who saw ChatGPT ads on CTV and display, by combining CRM data in a data hub. While the exact matching mechanism is undisclosed, this opens measurement and re‑engagement of AI‑generated ad exposures. The move highlights growing interest in tracking and reusing AI ad impressions.
With DSPs now able to retarget audiences who have seen ChatGPT ads on CTV and display, we need to consider strengthening the tracking of AI ad exposure on external media and CRM data integration for measuring the effectiveness of AI-generated ad products like TDA and their re-engagement strategies.
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Universal Ads gains 12 partner platforms that can book its TV ads
Universal Ads added 12 new partner platforms—such as Topsort, Koddi, Kochava, and WorkMagic—that can book TV inventory directly, without Universal Ads markup or contracts. This reduces transaction costs and expands programmatic access to TV, simplifying cross‑channel campaign execution.
As the number of partner platforms allowing direct booking of TV ad inventory grows and transaction costs decrease, we need to accelerate programmatic access to TV advertising and simplify cross-channel campaigns in our brand budget acquisition strategy, enhancing our proposals to agencies.
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AdRoll: display ad prices for new shoppers drop 45% before holidays
AdRoll reports that CPMs for display ads targeting new shoppers have fallen 45% ahead of the holiday season. Retargeting CPMs decreased 29.1%, while B2B ABM CPMs rose 4.4%. The price drop makes display inventory cheaper compared with rising Meta costs.
With a significant drop in CPM for new customer display ads before the holiday season, we should re-evaluate the use of display ad inventory beyond Meta for our external advertising strategy, including RPP-EXP and TDA-EXP, to explore more cost-effective customer acquisition opportunities.
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Magnite SpringServe publishers gain Comscore ad targeting without viewer IDs
Publishers using Magnite and SpringServe can now pair Comscore’s contextual signals with their inventory to target ads on CTV slots without relying on viewer IDs. Pricing and market specifics have not been disclosed yet. This expands ID‑free targeting capabilities amid privacy constraints.
With ID-less contextual targeting expanding in CTV advertising, we need to actively consider ID-less solutions that enable effective targeting under privacy regulations for our external ad collaborations, as part of our brand budget acquisition strategy.
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Only 12% of top US App Store apps have a preview video, Admiral Media finds
Admiral Media's research shows that only 12% of the top 1,000 free iPhone apps in the US include a preview video. Additionally, just 24% run In‑App Events, and 53.2% use generic release notes. This indicates many developers are not optimizing promotional assets, which can affect ad campaign performance.
Given the survey finding of low adoption of preview videos among popular apps, we need to actively encourage advertisers to optimize creative assets, including video, for effective ad campaigns, emphasizing its importance especially for products like TDA and TDA-EXP.
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Acast's North America sales gain 54% to overtake Europe in record quarter
Podcast ad platform Acast reported a 54% sales increase in North America, overtaking Europe in a record quarter. The marketplace comprises over 140,000 podcasters and 4,000 advertisers, with revenue per listen up 20%. Growth is organic, but further scaling requires programmatic optimization.
As a podcast advertising platform experiences significant growth and requires programmatic optimization for further expansion, we should monitor the trends in the audio advertising market and the potential application of programmatic technologies for our future media expansion strategy.
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Character.ai keeps $21.7m bid floor for Disney rivals despite 32 states
AI chat platform Character.ai maintains a $21.7 million bid floor for Disney‑related competitors, applying it across 32 U.S. states. The bid floor guarantees a minimum price for ad placements, raising costs for competing advertisers. The platform is also navigating data‑privacy regulations.
Given the example of an AI chat platform setting high bid floors for competitors and driving up ad costs, we need to analyze in detail the pricing mechanisms of ad inventory and their impact on cost-effectiveness in our partner negotiations for external ad collaborations, including RPP-Ex.
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Samsung TVs gain over 90% more casual and party gamers in North America
Samsung reports that casual and party gamers using its TVs in North America grew by over 90% year‑over‑year. The survey covered more than 3,000 households and signals rising demand for gaming‑related ad content on TV. This expands the audience pool for TV advertisers.
With a significant increase in casual gamers on Samsung TVs, we should identify potential demand for gaming-related ad content via CTV and consider approaching new advertiser segments as part of our brand budget acquisition strategy.
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Trade Desk advertisers gain ISP and carrier targeting from Digital Envoy
Trade Desk has partnered with Digital Envoy to offer ISP‑ and carrier‑based audience segments across EMEA, APAC, and CTV environments. The new data source, derived from IP information, promises high accuracy and scale, though pricing details remain undisclosed.
With Trade Desk introducing ISP and carrier-based targeting promising high accuracy and scale, we should consider leveraging new IP-information-based data sources, while ensuring privacy, as a measure to enhance targeting accuracy for external ad collaborations, including RPP-Ex.
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Adform’s MCP Server Transforms Workflows for Omnicom Media & Publicis
Adform unveiled its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, standardizing data exchange and workflow automation for Omnicom Media and Publicis campaigns. MCP automates the structuring of ad requests and responses, cutting manual effort and shortening campaign setup times. Early adopters report reduced operational costs and improved data consistency.
As Adform's MCP server automates ad operations workflows for major agencies, contributing to cost reduction and improved data integrity, we recognize the importance of efficiency improvements through data exchange standardization and automation in our agency collaborations for brand budget acquisition.
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Picnic launches Optimised PMPs, Bringing Placement-Level Quality into Bid Decisions
Picnic introduced Optimised PMP, a private marketplace offering that incorporates placement‑level quality metrics—such as viewability and brand‑safety scores—into real‑time bid decisions. Advertisers can automatically adjust bids based on these signals, reducing waste spend and improving campaign performance. The industry is watching as quality‑driven PMP models gain traction.
With Optimized PMPs enabling bid adjustments based on placement-level quality data, we should strengthen our optimization efforts for external ad collaborations like RPP-Ex and RPP-EXP by leveraging real-time quality metrics such as viewability and brand safety to reduce wasted spend.
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YouTube misses ad revenue expectations as growth slows
YouTube reported that its third‑quarter 2026 ad revenue fell short of analyst estimates, indicating a slowdown in growth despite music and premium subscriptions surpassing 150 million. The weaker revenue trend may signal reduced advertiser confidence on the platform.
With YouTube's ad revenue growth slowing and falling below expectations, we need to closely monitor shifts in advertiser investment intent on major platforms and re-evaluate the importance of diverse partnerships and unique value propositions in our external media collaborations, including our influencer video strategy.
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