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PPC Land @ppc.land · 3m
ICYMI: App installs from TV ads get 30 days of credit in MNTN, 72 hours in AppsFlyer #AppMarketing #MobileAds #DigitalAdvertising #AppInstalls #TVAdvertising
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App installs from TV ads get 30 days of credit in MNTN, 72 hours in AppsFlyer
iOS and Android app advertisers on MNTN can route AppsFlyer purchases into TV bidding, a link live since June 30. Which of the two counts will budgets follow?
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 4m
ICYMI: Zuid-Kempen school group faces 1,000 euro GDPR fine after EU adviser's view #GDPR #PrivacyWetgeving #Gegevensbescherming #SchoolFinanciën #Onderwijs
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Zuid-Kempen school group faces 1,000 euro GDPR fine after EU adviser's view
Belgium's Article 221(2) shields public bodies from data fines; privately run subsidised schools fall outside it, per the Advocate General. What of hospitals?
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 30m
FYI: Cory Doctorow puts AI revenue at $50bn against $1tn of spending #AI #CoryDoctorow #Investing #Advertising #TechNews
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Cory Doctorow puts AI revenue at $50bn against $1tn of spending
US investors have 35% of stock value riding on seven AI firms, the EFF activist said on September 11. What would a burst cost the ad platforms paying for it?
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 30m
FYI: Explaining robots.txt #robotsTxt #SEO #webCrawlers #digitalMarketing #websiteOptimization
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Explaining robots.txt
robots.txt is a plain text file at a website's root telling crawlers which paths they may fetch. How RFC 9309 works, which crawlers obey it and where it fails.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 30m
FYI: Explaining Google-Extended #GoogleExtended #RobotsTxt #GeminiTraining #SEO #DigitalMarketing
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Explaining Google-Extended
Google-Extended is a robots.txt token letting sites refuse Gemini training and grounding without leaving Google Search: how it works, its limits and disputes.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 30m
FYI: Explaining nosnippet #nosnippet #SEO #Google #DigitalMarketing #SearchEngines
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Explaining nosnippet
Nosnippet is a robots rule telling search engines to show no text snippet or video preview for a page, and at Google it also keeps the text out of AI answers.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 30m
FYI: Explaining noarchive #SEO #DigitalMarketing #SearchEngineOptimization #Bing #Google
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Explaining noarchive
Noarchive is a robots meta tag value asking search engines not to keep or show a stored copy of a page. Google dropped it in 2024; Bing now uses it for Copilot
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 1h
FYI: Explaining consent decree #ConsentDecree #CourtOrder #LegalTerms #Judgment #Law
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Explaining consent decree
A consent decree is a court order whose terms the parties negotiate, ending a case without trial or an admission while binding the defendant like any judgment.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 1h
FYI: LegitScript tops 10,000 certified websites as health ad gatekeeper #HealthAdvertising #Telehealth #LegitScript #PharmacyCompliance #DigitalMarketing
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LegitScript tops 10,000 certified websites as health ad gatekeeper
More than 140,000 pharmacy sites logged as breaking the rules feed the checks telehealth advertisers must pass. How often is approval withdrawn after launch?
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 1h
FYI: Films outside the top 20 took 43% of 2025 US box office, VAB finds #BoxOffice #FilmIndustry #MovieRevenue #CinemaTrends #IndependentFilms
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Films outside the top 20 took 43% of 2025 US box office, VAB finds
Some 650 smaller releases shared $3.7bn in 2025, revenue cinema ad sellers rely on. Annual grosses still trail 2019 by 24%, so how many of 15 rebuttals hold up?
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 1h
FYI: 86% of AI best-product answers cite a commercial source, GetCited finds #AI #Tech #AffiliateMarketing #Ecommerce #DataAnalysis
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86% of AI best-product answers cite a commercial source, GetCited finds
TechRadar and Forbes Advisor lead the affiliate-heavy layer behind 106,758 AI citations, and the author sells article placements. How solid is the 25.4% figure?
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 1h
FYI: Cloudflare drops planned Googlebot block for sites refusing AI training #Cloudflare #AItraining #Googlebot #Bing #WebSecurity
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Cloudflare drops planned Googlebot block for sites refusing AI training
17% of Cloudflare sites block AI training; those blocks now turn into a robots.txt rule that Bing plans to honour from early 2027. What does Block cost now?
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 2h
FYI: Ad tech's most reliable numbers this week had to be pried out by courts #AdTech #DigitalMarketing #Meta #TikTok #DataPrivacy
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Ad tech's most reliable numbers this week had to be pried out by courts
Copilot click data, 43.9 million Meta violations and a 120-minute TikTok cap surfaced via litigation, as platforms and vendors shipped claims nobody can test.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 2h
FYI: Explaining fin-syn #FinSyn #Broadcasting #TelevisionHistory #FCC #MediaRegulation
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Explaining fin-syn
Fin-syn, the FCC's financial interest and syndication rules, barred ABC, CBS and NBC from owning or reselling most of their prime-time shows from 1970 to 1995.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 4h
FYI: EMARKETER forecasts 6 US TV majors by 2027, down from 10 #TVMarket #NielsenRatings #USMedia #AdvertisingTrends #StreamingCompetition
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EMARKETER forecasts 6 US TV majors by 2027, down from 10
NBCUniversal, No. 2 in Nielsen's July ranking at 9.2% of US TV time, is missing from the chart ad buyers share. Does it mark a return to the Big Three era?
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 4h
Google's AI answer on Lily Ray's SEO world title cites one source: her own #SEO #AI #DigitalMarketing #LilyRay #PPC
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Google's AI answer on Lily Ray's SEO world title cites one source: her own
At an invite-only Austrian summit of 25 experts and 30 attendees, peers voted Ray's talk the best of the year. Can AI tell real prizes from self-made boasts?
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 4h
NYSE halts Getty Images trading after shares fall to 12 cents #GettyImages #NYSE #StockMarket #Investing #FinancialNews
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NYSE halts Getty Images trading after shares fall to 12 cents
Image supplier to agencies and publishers carries $2.07 billion of debt against $51.6 million of cash; a bond grace period ends near October 1. Chapter 11 next?
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 4h
Safari 27 blocks The Trade Desk's ads via 11 lines WebKit merged in February #Safari27 #TheTradeDesk #WebKit #UID2 #ID5
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Safari 27 blocks The Trade Desk's ads via 11 lines WebKit merged in February
UID2, ID5, LiveRamp and Permutive domains share a private Apple list with adsrvr.org, cutting DSP buyers off iOS 27 Safari. Could WebKit exempt a single host?
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 4h
Explaining end card #EndCard #VideoAds #DigitalMarketing #Advertising #ClickThroughRate
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Explaining end card
An end card is the screen shown after a video ad ends, holding the button that turns a finished view into a click or app install. How the unit works and fails.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 4h
Explaining playable ad #PlayableAds #InteractiveAdvertising #MobileMarketing #AdTech #AppPromotion
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Explaining playable ad
A playable ad is an interactive mini-demo of a mobile app, usually a game, that runs inside the ad unit so people can try it before installing from a store.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 5h
FYI: Explaining share of voice #ShareOfVoice #Advertising #MarketingStrategy #BrandVisibility #Sponsorships
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Explaining share of voice
Share of voice is a brand's portion of all advertising or visibility in its category, used to set budgets, sell sponsorships and count mentions in AI answers.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 5h
FYI: Game: The client brief lands on four desks that never talk #PuzzleGame #ClientBrief #WordGame #LogicPuzzle #BrainTeaser
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Game: The client brief lands on four desks that never talk
Sixteen terms, four groups of four, and a grid where the obvious reading is usually the wrong one. The hardest group is four entirely ordinary words.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 5h
FYI: Explaining closed loop #DigitalMarketing #ClosedLoop #Advertising #PPC #MarketingStrategy
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Explaining closed loop
Closed loop describes an ad system in which one party sees both the ad exposure and the resulting sale, feeding the outcome back into reporting and bidding.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 5h
FYI: Explaining commerce media #CommerceMedia #Advertising #RetailMarketing #DigitalMarketing #DataDriven
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Explaining commerce media
Commerce media is advertising sold by firms holding shopper transaction data, from retailers to banks, airlines and delivery apps. How it works and its limits.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 5h
Explaining trade secret #TradeSecrets #BusinessStrategy #IntellectualProperty #ConfidentialInfo #BusinessGrowth
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Explaining trade secret
A trade secret is business information, from source code to pricing models and customer lists, that the law protects because it is valuable and kept secret.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 5h
Explaining mediation waterfall #MediationWaterfall #AdNetworks #AppDevelopment #MobileAdvertising #DigitalMarketing
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Explaining mediation waterfall
A mediation waterfall is an app setup calling ad networks one at a time, ranked by expected price, until one fills the slot. How it works and why it is fading.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 5h
Explaining mediation platform #MediationPlatform #AdTech #DigitalAdvertising #MobileApps #ProgrammaticAdvertising
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Explaining mediation platform
A mediation platform is software in a mobile app that picks which ad network or bidder fills each slot, by waterfall or auction. How it works and who runs it.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 5h
AppLovin sues Unity to halt Ad Quality data collection within 5 business days #AppLovin #Unity #AdQuality #DigitalMarketing #PPC
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AppLovin sues Unity to halt Ad Quality data collection within 5 business days
Court papers say Unity's kit read per-impression MAX revenue, waterfalls and screen touches in publishers' apps. Unity offered a MAX switch-off, so why sue?
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 5h
ICYMI: ACCC fines James Lane and Vuly $59,400 over sales that ran past end dates #ACCC #JamesLane #Vuly #BlackFriday #Sales
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ACCC fines James Lane and Vuly $59,400 over sales that ran past end dates
Vuly's timer restarted twice for Australian shoppers as an up-to-30% offer rose to up to 45%. James Lane pre-planned its extension. More due by Black Friday?
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 6h
Apple's iOS 27 blocks The Trade Desk from serving ads on Safari #iOS27 #AppleUpdate #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #Safari
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Apple's iOS 27 blocks The Trade Desk from serving ads on Safari
Apple's iOS 27 update blocks The Trade Desk's ad delivery domains on Safari, as Amazon renames its DSP and AppLovin sues Unity over mobile ad data collection.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 6h
Game: Definitions settle more measurement fights than maths #Game #Definitions #Measurement #Strategy #Puzzle
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Game: Definitions settle more measurement fights than maths
Sixteen terms and four groups of four, drawn from four corners of the job. One group is far narrower than its tiles suggest, and it is not the obvious one.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 6h
ICYMI: Game: Automated media buying still runs on manual vocabulary #AutomatedBuying #MediaBuying #DigitalMarketing #PPC #MarketingStrategy
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Game: Automated media buying still runs on manual vocabulary
Sixteen terms, four groups, and a grid that crosses search, audio and the money side. One of the four groups is far narrower than the tiles make it look.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 6h
ICYMI: Publishers ask Congress to force AI bots to say who they are #AIBots #Publishers #Congress #TechRegulation #AITransparency
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Publishers ask Congress to force AI bots to say who they are
AI scraping bots would have to name themselves under a bill that 300 publishing executives took to Washington, as Cloudflare reset its own crawler controls.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 6h
ICYMI: VoetbalTV loses €25,000 claim though court finds Dutch regulator at fault #VoetbalTV #NederlandseRegulator #rechtspraak #sponsors #ING
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VoetbalTV loses €25,000 claim though court finds Dutch regulator at fault
ING and KPN quit as sponsors after the Dutch DPA's unlawful 2019 fine notice, Utrecht judges held. No contracts were filed. Can a regulator ever be made to pay?
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 6h
ICYMI: Hellmann's gains 24% unique reach in Google DV360 vertical video test #DigitalMarketing #VideoAdvertising #Unilever #Hellmanns #DV360
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Hellmann's gains 24% unique reach in Google DV360 vertical video test
Cost per individual viewer fell 25% for Unilever and WPP Media in early testing. Which publishers, channels and markets will the pooled buy actually cover?
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 6h
ICYMI: Google drops unrendered ads from DV360 and CM360 billing in February 2027 #GoogleAds #DV360 #CM360 #AdSense #DigitalMarketing
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Google drops unrendered ads from DV360 and CM360 billing in February 2027
Advertisers heard of the same switch for September 2025; AdSense publishers move February 17, 2027. Google puts no figure on the fall - what will invoices show?
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 14h
Meta tests faster publishing for top members of Facebook groups #Meta #FacebookGroups #SocialMedia #DigitalMarketing #ContentCreation
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Meta tests faster publishing for top members of Facebook groups
One test role would replace contributor badges and the group expert role, while Forum's Ask tries comparison prompts. Admin tool detail is due in coming weeks.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 14h
Amazon Ads puts 4-step DVA+ campaign builder in US closed beta #AmazonAds #DVACampaign #DigitalMarketing #Ecommerce #OnlineAdvertising
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Amazon Ads puts 4-step DVA+ campaign builder in US closed beta
Invoice-only billing applies to sellers, vendors and off-Amazon brands, with cards planned for Q1 2027. Open beta is expected in late October, then 35 markets.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 14h
IAB Tech Lab finalises v2.3 podcast counting rules covering video #IABTechLab #Podcasting #DigitalMedia #ContentCounting #MediaMetrics
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IAB Tech Lab finalises v2.3 podcast counting rules covering video
No public comments required edits, leaving hosts, buyers and vendors on server logs until v3.0 opens for comment in mid-2027 - what will count beyond downloads?
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 14h
Microsoft Clarity lets brands edit what counts as a branded AI query #MicrosoftClarity #AIQueries #BrandManagement #DigitalMarketing #DataAnalytics
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Microsoft Clarity lets brands edit what counts as a branded AI query
Site owners can add abbreviations, translations and typos to Clarity's brand lists 57 days after the AI query split. Do past reports get reclassified? Unstated.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 14h
ICYMI: Cloudflare CEO expects bot traffic to hit 1,000 times human within 5 years #Cloudflare #BotTraffic #WebTraffic #Automation #DigitalMarketing
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Cloudflare CEO expects bot traffic to hit 1,000 times human within 5 years
Automated requests passed human ones in May 2026, over a year ahead of Cloudflare's forecast, Prince told Decoder. Who pays for the web once ads stop working?
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 14h
ICYMI: Lob: 62% of US consumers say AI made them warier of digital ads #DigitalMarketing #AI #Advertising #ConsumerTrust #PrintMarketing
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Lob: 62% of US consumers say AI made them warier of digital ads
Direct mail senders: 34% of 2,000 US adults now rate print more trustworthy than digital, up 9 points. Which Lob figures survive a close read of the charts?
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 14h
ICYMI: Overwolf maps media-brief audiences across 5,000 video games #Gaming #VideoGames #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #GameAnalytics
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Overwolf maps media-brief audiences across 5,000 video games
Planners get over 3 billion gameplay signals on 113 million monthly players in eight markets. Can a gaming network's own data win a place in core ad budgets?
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 14h
ICYMI: iHeart's 65.9M weekly podcast downloads are 4.4 times Audioboom's #Podcast #iHeartRadio #Audioboom #Podcasting #MediaTrends
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iHeart's 65.9M weekly podcast downloads are 4.4 times Audioboom's
Podcast buyers face a chart in which 81 of the top 150 shows sell through iHeart, and SiriusXM does not appear. Why just 28 of 200 survey-ranked shows overlap.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 14h
ICYMI: AI buying agents gain AudienceMix data segments through an MCP server #AIAgents #AudienceMix #DataSegments #MCPServer #DigitalMarketing
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AI buying agents gain AudienceMix data segments through an MCP server
Buyers see a 98th-percentile match and paid rate claim from one unnamed DSP, AudienceMix says. Traders keep final approval, so what can the software decide?
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 15h
Advertisers gain access to 500+ Spain and Portugal screens via VIOOH #Advertising #DigitalMarketing #MediaBuying #ProgrammaticAdvertising #VIOOH
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Advertisers gain access to 500+ Spain and Portugal screens via VIOOH
Media buyers reach 320 million monthly impressions in 75+ cities, from fuel stations to Madrid-Barajas. Pricing, buying routes and measurement remain unstated.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 15h
AudienceProject adds Canada to Netflix ad measurement, now in 6 markets #Netflix #AdMeasurement #AudienceProject #DigitalMarketing #TVAdvertising
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AudienceProject adds Canada to Netflix ad measurement, now in 6 markets
Netflix averaged 54% unique reach to TV across five markets, per AudienceProject, which gives no sample size. What the figure counts remains an open question.
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 15h
Streaming programmatic ad views gain 44% in Europe, FreeWheel finds #ProgrammaticAds #Streaming #DigitalMarketing #Advertising #FreeWheel
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Streaming programmatic ad views gain 44% in Europe, FreeWheel finds
Unique advertisers buying programmatically rose 25% across 15 markets, and guaranteed deals hold 71% of Europe's volume against 27% in the US. What explains it?
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 15h
VAB deck lists 8 ways fans engage with TV, film and sports for marketers #Marketing #Streaming #Entertainment #Film #TVShows
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VAB deck lists 8 ways fans engage with TV, film and sports for marketers
Deloitte data put monthly streaming bills at $71 for fans against $56 for non-fans, while some inputs date to 2018. What does the framework prove for buyers?
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PPC Land @ppc.land · 15h
FYI: Explaining seller agent #SellerAgent #AIAgents #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #PublisherSolutions
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Explaining seller agent
A seller agent is AI software that acts for a publisher or SSP with buying agents, reading briefs, quoting prices and booking deals. How it works and fails.
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