Facebook, Instagram and YouTube have made themselves too embedded to fear real regulation. It’s time to think much bigger about our digital future There is a non-zero chance that Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t even know that the UK proposed to ban Facebook and Instagram for under-16s on Monday. There is almost 100% certainty that he doesn’t [...]
The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) is concerned about the GOP losing control of the U.S. Senate in the upcoming midterm election. You can see this concern plainly in the commercials that the mainstream group with fringe views makes and runs. Here’s one that attacks Graham Platner, the Democratic Senate candidate from Maine. NRSC is [...]
Send us Fan Mail In this week’s episode of the Digital and Dirt podcast, Ian sits down with Todd Johnson to discuss the evolution of programmatic advertising, the growing role of AI and attention measurement in media buying, and why storytelling still matters in an increasingly automated industry. Podcast Breakdown 00:00 - 04:50 Introduction, career [...]
Amazon’s Patent Evaluation Express (APEX) has become one of the most consequential patent enforcement venues in the country. According to a recent Bloomberg Law analysis, federal lawsuits stemming from the program grew more than 200% from 2022 to 2025. For companies selling on Amazon, and for patent owners targeting them, there are three features of [...]
Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP has been recognized in the 2026 edition of The Legal 500 US as a Leading Law Firm in Advertising and Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory, with three attorneys individually ranked, including Andrew Lustigman being recognized as a Leading Partner. The firm’s recognition in this highly competitive category reflects its steady focus on [...]
The dominance of YouTube has helped normalize free, lower-budget, creator-centric content, a tailwind for the once overlooked FAST ecosystem.
Programmatic buying is only getting more (and more and more) automated and agentic. But more accountable? That’s a different story. Precise.ai, a startup founded by a pair of ad tech vets, is trying to change that by applying an approach called “decisioning economics” to programmatic, which involves measuring the cost and contribution of everything that [...]
Fox rolls out new agentic capabilities across linear and digital.
The supply path optimization (SPO) trend has DSPs going direct to publishers, cutting out SSPs in the process. Meanwhile, SSPs are going direct to buyers, cutting out DSPs. But who gets cut out when an ad agency implements its own SPO policy? As it turns out, SSPs are still generally seen as expendable hops in [...]
If you think programmatic advertising on the open web is opaque, well, it’s got nothing on the app economy. Mobile ad network margins can run as high as 40% or 50%, said Felix Braberg, a mobile gaming consultant and ad monetization expert. And even when publishers negotiate contractual caps, there’s no way to confirm they’re [...]
