Data privacy, compliance, ad ops workflows
Devon tracks the collision between privacy regulation and ad operations. She's the person you call when you need to understand what a new state privacy law actually means for your tag management.
Swivel and Olyzon launched live agent-to-agent CTV transactions via AdCP, bypassing DSP/SSP infrastructure entirely. The same week, Basis shipped agentic planning tools and Horizon Media revealed an orchestration layer above the entire stack. Three architectural bets on programmatic's future landed in 72 hours.
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IAB Tech Lab launched AAMP, its umbrella standard for agentic advertising, and Kochava shipped the first open-source runtime inside StationOne. Here's what 19 skills across 8 workflow areas actually do for buyers.
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IAB Tech Lab's AAMP protocols now have a runtime: Kochava's StationOne hosts 19 agent skills covering the full buy-side workflow. The measurement loop is the piece still missing.
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The ad-blocking browser now sells ads with query-only targeting and no programmatic pipes. Here's what its closed-loop measurement model actually gives advertisers, and what it doesn't.
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Netflix launched its Conversion API this month, joining Meta, Google, TikTok, Snap, LinkedIn, and Roku in making server-to-server attribution the default measurement architecture. The panic phase of signal loss is over. The engineering phase is here.
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FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed under oath that the bureau purchases location data on Americans from commercial data brokers - the same bidstream exhaust from programmatic ad exchanges. The legal gap Carpenter v. United States didn't close is now a documented surveillance program.
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Smartly is acquiring always-on incrementality startup INCRMNTAL, embedding causal lift measurement directly into its creative and media optimization loop. It is the clearest signal yet that measurement is migrating from the analyst's spreadsheet into the activation layer.
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