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Omnicom Says It's Cutting Out the Ad-Tech Middlemen. The Holdco-Direct Era Just Went Live.

John Wren told the Q1 call the holdco is executing live agent-to-agent buys with publishers via the Ad Context Protocol. Read it as the structural shift the independent ad-tech stack has feared since 2018.
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Machine Cognition Hits Programmatic Ads: 30 Autonomous Campaigns Live on PubMatic

With Trade Desk Kokai at near-total client penetration, the competitive edge has shifted to verifiable decision traces.
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Netflix's Amazon and Yahoo Targeting Layers Go Live for May 14

Announced in March, switched on this quarter — the targeting plumbing Netflix's ad stack lacked arrives in time for May 14.
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PubMatic's AgenticOS Hits 1,000 Deals as Creative Suite Goes Live

Emma Newman's fragmentation thesis is now a procurement question, with PubMatic's May 7 earnings the first test of whether agentic orchestration pays.
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Tubi Hands Amazon DSP First-Look on Its 97M-MAU Audience
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Walmart's CTV Stack Just Became a Required Identity Gateway
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Agentic AI Just Crossed Into the Workflow, Six Weeks Before NY's Disclosure Cliff
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Agentic AI Just Crossed Into the Workflow, Six Weeks Before NY's Disclosure Cliff
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Amazon Wires the Identity Stack Together Before NewFronts
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IAB Tech Lab's New Transparency Council Seats Holdcos, Not Brands
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Magnite Q1 Guidance Puts CTV Above 50% for the First Time
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Paramount Opens 2026 Upfront With Roku, Amazon Ad-Sales Hires
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Trade Desk Reframes Ventura as Multi-OS Ecosystem
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LG's Unusual CTV Exclusive With Teads Just Got Bigger