I wrote a book. It’s called Yield: How Google Bought, Built, and Bullied Its Way to Advertising Dominance. I think you’ll like it. Let me tell you more 🧵
🚨 The Trade Desk executive exit door isn’t wide enough
Anders’ hire was hailed as a huge deal following 13 years at Google - 7 months later, he’s out at $TTD
Do artists and influencers actually have databases of their fans? Alex Chatfield comes on the pod to talk about how celebrities and influencers can capture data for better activations. Full pod episode on YouTube or wherever your listen.
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A lot of people think that Zohran Mamdani’s election as New York Mayor is the start of a transformation in US politics favoring the far left, but actually, Mamdani’s election as mayor is the start of a chain of events that will result in Jessica Tisch becoming the first woman president and the first Jewish president and the first cop president.
Beautiful day marching up Fifth Avenue with @MikeBloomberg for the annual Israel Day Parade.
The NYPD was not messing around with security: this was the most extensive security plan that the NYPD has ever put together for this event so that everyone could celebrate safely.
Thank you to every member of the NYPD who was out today protecting our city.
In this week’s Marketecture newsletter, Ari lays out the branding lessons we can all take away from a schlocky company that achieved 100% brand awareness. Link below 👇
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Maple Street Biscuit Co. launches 'Biscuit Blaster' at sports events! Catch a flying biscuit and score a coupon. Game on!
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Is Hightouch a viable replacement for LiveRamp? On the latest pod Co-CEO @tejasmanohar walks us through their giant fundraise, their AI ambitions, and data onboarding.
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⚡️ Walmart Diversifying Away from Trade Desk with Yahoo DSP ⚡️ $WMT$TTD
Yahoo’s DSP is leveraging significant first-party data spanning e-mail, fantasy sports, news, and finance to deliver both cost efficiency and measurably better performance for advertisers...
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I'm not a big fan of "ad tech saves the web" as a talking point, but this is pretty interesting comms strategy from @taboola.
What you think @joe_zappa and @pknegten ?
70% of all digital marketing spend goes to 2 websites: Google and Meta.
You can't build an Internet media business like that. @AdamSingolda is trying to fix it. This is his story.
Normal people: Slack is a meh chat app
Salesforce: AI headless enterprise transformation hub bringing the agentic era into every worker's life, changing the very nature of work across video, audio, docs
Microsoft: Here's a cheaper chat app