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PubMatic's AgenticOS, PMG's Alli Buyer Cloud, and TTD's eroding lock-in are three arrows hitting the same target: the DSP's 10-20% fee layer. Here's what the convergence means.
Four holding companies are now auditing or distancing from The Trade Desk over hidden fees. But the real fight is over something more expensive than a markup: control of the advertiser relationship.
OpenAI is hiring to build its own advertising infrastructure while leaning on Criteo and The Trade Desk to get up and running. The vendor relationships are a bridge, not a destination.
The Trade Desk gained 3.4% on a brutal market day. The real story isn't the stock price. It's the collision of agency margin models, CEO insider buying, and whether the last independent DSP can survive the fight for who controls programmatic's economics.
OpenAI partnered with Criteo and talked to The Trade Desk. Then it started hiring a full in-house ads team at $385K a head. The vendors are training wheels, and the clock is already ticking.
OpenAI is hiring a full ads engineering team to build its own monetization infrastructure from scratch — the same move Netflix and Walmart made before they stopped renting ad tech and started owning it.