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What actually moved in the market From the desk that operates the auctions

More from this issue

  1. IAB Europe’s 2026 AI Report: Agentic Buying Is A Governance Problem Now, Not An Adoption One

  2. Brussels Widens Its DMA Case Against Meta’s Pay-Or-Consent Model. Here’s What a Fresh Penalty Would Change for Publishers.

  3. Google’s Ad Tech Remedies Skip Deal IDs And PG. Publishers Are Taking The Win Anyway

  4. Can Sell-Side Curation Fix Cookieless Targeting? Permutive And TransUnion Are Betting On It

  5. Publishers Score Google’s Ad Tech Remedies A 5 Out Of 10. Header Bidding Wins; Data Portability Doesn’t

  6. Taboola And 51Degrees Just Added Two More Ad IDs. Publishers Still Don’t Have One Currency

  7. A Publisher Consortium Is Building Its Own Retail Media Network — Instead Of Renting Someone Else’s

Every issue

  1. This was the week "who's actually deciding" became the question underneath almost every story.This week
  2. This was the week Google's ad tech ruling stopped being a number and became a calendar.
  3. This was the week control changed hands on every side of the auction at once.
  4. This was a quiet week for volume and a loud one for control.
  5. This was the week new supply showed up everywhere at once, and the platforms that already had it started taking the controls away from the people who buy it.
  6. This was the week the machines got their assignments and the humans got their notice.
  7. This was the week the open web’s referees stopped pretending to be neutral.
  8. This was the week the industry’s two underlying questions came due at once: who gets paid when machines read the web, and what the open market is actually worth.
  9. This was the week the market priced what publishers already knew.
  10. This was the week the leverage turned.
  11. This was the week the numbers stopped adding up.
  12. This was the week everybody bought the pipes.
  13. This was the week the bundles broke apart — and someone else started setting the price of your content.
  14. This was the week commerce bought the screen — and the ad became the checkout.
  15. This was the week the machines took the wheel — and the ad-tech hierarchy got redrawn at the same time.
  16. This was the week publishers got a switch — and watched the plumbing underneath them get rebuilt.
  17. This was the week the open web's reckoning stopped being a forecast and became a balance sheet.
  18. If last week was about upfronts, this week was about agents — and the bill they're handing publishers.
  19. This was upfronts week — but the bigger story is the agentic infrastructure being poured underneath it.
  20. Standards bodies put governance on the table.

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