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For years, the advertising industry has focused on financial leakage. That scrutiny is important, but it is incomplete. AdLib's Founder and CEO, Mike Hauptman, explores why we need to quantify the labor required to manage adtech's increasingly complex ecosystem.
Adtech enters 2026 stronger. Programmatic continues to expand across channels. Digital is the infrastructure of modern marketing. Mac Sawa, CEO of OnAudience, deep dives into why growth is no longer the main story in adtech.
Digital publishing has spent 25 years copying the economics of print, and that choice now blocks its ability to compete for advertiser trust and pricing power. The path forward is for publishers to stop selling impression volume and start selling outcomes, where attention, engagement, and contribution define value, say
CTV
As an organiser, how do you connect the dots across content, delivery and the guest experience to create an adtech event that sticks in the mind? After all, that’s the goal - no one wants to organise an event that's forgotten before the canapés have even been digested. Our events expert has the lowdown.
CTV is blurring the lines between old-school TV and new-age streaming—here’s why that matters to marketers and viewers alike.
Experts weigh in on what’s shaping video and CTV advertising in 2025—from data to creativity and everything in between.
Retail Media
Amir Rasekh, Managing Director at Nectar360, argues that retail media has outgrown its bottom-funnel stereotype. With AI-powered platforms like Pollen and unified customer views, retail media is now driving full-funnel strategies, from awareness to loyalty, while reshaping how brands and retailers collaborate.
Retail media is a much discussed and easily misunderstood area of adtech and digital advertising, but most predictions put it at the heart of the evolving media landscape. So what are we dealing with?
As an organiser, how do you connect the dots across content, delivery and the guest experience to create an adtech event that sticks in the mind? After all, that’s the goal - no one wants to organise an event that's forgotten before the canapés have even been digested. Our events expert has the lowdown.
Programmatic
Adtech enters 2026 stronger. Programmatic continues to expand across channels. Digital is the infrastructure of modern marketing. Mac Sawa, CEO of OnAudience, deep dives into why growth is no longer the main story in adtech.
Discover how publishers and advertisers can reduce AI bias in advertising with transparency, diverse data, human oversight and contextual targeting.
Think you know your adtech stack? From DV360 and Meta Ads Manager to LinkedIn Campaign Manager, GA4 and The Trade Desk, discover the hidden features and power hacks that can stretch your budget, sharpen targeting, and boost campaign performance.
Data Privacy
Everyone’s talking about the authenticated web—but will it really change the game or is it just more hype? Human Algorithm's Shawn Lim poses the question.
Apple’s privacy policies are in the hot seat. What’s next for ATT, and what does it mean for marketers?
Zero-party data promises a better way to connect with customers, if you know how to use it right. Here’s how.
Advertiser Strategy
For years, the advertising industry has focused on financial leakage. That scrutiny is important, but it is incomplete. AdLib's Founder and CEO, Mike Hauptman, explores why we need to quantify the labor required to manage adtech's increasingly complex ecosystem.
Adtech enters 2026 stronger. Programmatic continues to expand across channels. Digital is the infrastructure of modern marketing. Mac Sawa, CEO of OnAudience, deep dives into why growth is no longer the main story in adtech.
Digital publishing has spent 25 years copying the economics of print, and that choice now blocks its ability to compete for advertiser trust and pricing power. The path forward is for publishers to stop selling impression volume and start selling outcomes, where attention, engagement, and contribution define value, say
Measurement
For years, the advertising industry has focused on financial leakage. That scrutiny is important, but it is incomplete. AdLib's Founder and CEO, Mike Hauptman, explores why we need to quantify the labor required to manage adtech's increasingly complex ecosystem.
Adtech enters 2026 stronger. Programmatic continues to expand across channels. Digital is the infrastructure of modern marketing. Mac Sawa, CEO of OnAudience, deep dives into why growth is no longer the main story in adtech.
Digital publishing has spent 25 years copying the economics of print, and that choice now blocks its ability to compete for advertiser trust and pricing power. The path forward is for publishers to stop selling impression volume and start selling outcomes, where attention, engagement, and contribution define value, say
AI
For years, the advertising industry has focused on financial leakage. That scrutiny is important, but it is incomplete. AdLib's Founder and CEO, Mike Hauptman, explores why we need to quantify the labor required to manage adtech's increasingly complex ecosystem.
Adtech enters 2026 stronger. Programmatic continues to expand across channels. Digital is the infrastructure of modern marketing. Mac Sawa, CEO of OnAudience, deep dives into why growth is no longer the main story in adtech.
Digital publishing has spent 25 years copying the economics of print, and that choice now blocks its ability to compete for advertiser trust and pricing power. The path forward is for publishers to stop selling impression volume and start selling outcomes, where attention, engagement, and contribution define value, say
Brand Safety
Emma Newman, CRO EMEA at PubMatic and winner of The Wires' Adtech Personality of the Year, writes on the risks to the Open Internet and journalism, and how digital advertising can save the day with campaigns such as PubMatic's #FundedByAdvertising.
Trust is the secret sauce in advertising. Discover why building it with your audience is critical, and how to do it well.
Let's go back in time just over 400 years, when the poet and cleric John Donne coined the phrase: “No man is an island”. The simplest explanation Sara Vincent has heard of the phrase is that people are better together than alone
