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    The Winners and Losers of Google’s Big Cookie Reversal

    April 24, 2025

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    What’s the future of data collaboration platforms?

    April 22nd, 2025

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    ADWEEK Guide to AI

    March 30th, 2025

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    Luma’s Crown as Adtech’s Top M&A Dealmaker Is Under Threat

    March 12. 2025

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    Taboola targets a $55 billion opportunity as it moves beyond content recommendation widgets

    February 25th, 2025

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    4 Questions About BF Island, BuzzFeed's New Social Platform

    February 13, 2025

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    Episode 17: Ana Milicevic of Sparrow Advisors on cookies, the DMV and the past and future of adtech

    February 12th, 2025

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    Omnicom’s IPG Acquisition Can Rival Publicis’ Data and AI Supremacy, But It Won’t Be Without Challenges

    December 10th, 2024

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    Will The Trade Desk’s CTV OS Gambit Pay Off?

    November 21st, 2024

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    How Lina Khan’s FTC changed the advertising industry

    November 20th, 2024

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    LiveIntent Lays off 35 Employees Following Zeta Global Acquisition

    October 21st, 2024

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    Exclusive: Location App Life360 Is Growing a $10 Million Ad Business

    September 5th, 2024

     

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    Is Targeted Advertising Too Creepy for CTV? 

    July 31st, 2024

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    What Marketers Should Know About Google’s ‘Surprising, but Not Shocking’ Cookies About-Face 

    July 24th, 2024

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    Exclusive: Equativ Is Acquiring Sharethrough to Compete Among Undifferentiated SSPs 

    June 12th, 2024

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    Mark Penn's Stagwell is on the hunt for adtech as the ad company continues its acquisition spree

    April 23rd, 2024

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    Episode 25 with special guests Ana Milicevic

    April 23rd, 2024

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    'Made for Advertising’ Websites Are the Marketing Industry’s Latest Messy Situation

    April 11th, 2024

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    The New York Times Games Advertising Is More Than an Awareness Machine

    February 6th, 2024

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    How to cut cookies with Campaign: Managing the knock-on effects

    February 2nd, 2024

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    How to cut cookies with Campaign: Attribution and measurement alternatives

    February 1st, 2024

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    How to cut cookies with Campaign: Targeting alternatives

    January 31st, 2024

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    How to cut cookies with Campaign: Why the third-party cookie is being deprecated 

    January 30th, 2024

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    No Long-Tail Publishers, CPMs or CPAs: What Digital Advertising Should Leave Behind in 2024 

    January 25th, 2024

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     Google Chrome's Cookie Phase-Out: What You Need to Know

    January 3rd, 2024

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    A History of Ad Tech Chapter 4: The Privacy Reckoning

    December 22nd 2023

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    Digiday’s Oral History of Ad Tech podcast, episode 4, the privacy reckoning with Ana Milicevic 

    December 22nd, 2023

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    Momentum Grows Around Brands Owning Ad-Tech Contracts Amid Supply Chain Murkiness 

    December 12th, 2023

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    The digital world remade itself and now every company has become an ad seller 

    December 4th, 2023

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    Cookie Crunch: Performance Marketers’ Preparation (or Lack of) for Deprecation 

    November 13th, 2023

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    Media with Ana Milicevic 

    October 30th, 2023

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    As conference season picks up, here are the issues the ad industry should address 

    October 16th, 2023

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    Does The Privacy Sandbox Have An Awareness Problem? 

    October 2nd, 2023

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    ZoomInfo Is Making B-to-B Ad Buying Easier Through Trade Desk Integration 

    September 7th, 2023

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    CTV is booming - but will the absence of a unified approach ruin its potential? 

    August 4th, 2023

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    Meta’s Twitter rival Threads has launched — here’s what you need to know 

    July 6th, 2023

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    The Digital-Ad Community is spending the 4th of July holiday scrambling to recover funds lost from MediaMath's shocking bankruptcy

    July 3rd, 2023

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    Evaluating data clean rooms for your organization 

    June 22nd, 2023

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    Inside Netflix's Growing M&A Machine, Who's Leading It, and What's Inside... 

    June 21st, 2023

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    Marketer Trade Group Report Shows Ad Spending ‘Rife With Waste’ 

    June 19th, 2023

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    Privacy and kids’ safety are dominating state tech rules in 2023 

    June 15th, 2023

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    With Its Frequency Tool, The Financial Times Fine-Tunes Ad Exposure 

    June 8th, 2023

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    Some Brands Are Still Taking A ‘Lackadaisical Approach’ To Post-Cookie Prepping 

    June 8th, 2023

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    For Ad Tech, Cannes This Year Is All Business 

    June 6th, 2023

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    Microsoft Is Deprioritizing Third-Party Ad Tech Amid Reorgs And Layoffs 

    June 6th, 2023

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    Marketing Use Cases for Data Clean Rooms 

    May 11th, 2023

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    UK’s Cloud Gaming Concerns Rain On Microsoft’s Content Fortress Ambitions 

    April 28th, 2023

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    Instacart, Walmart, and others are rushing to power streaming TV ads to capture a $5.6 billion opportunity for retail media 

    April 28th, 2023

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    BuzzFeed's Pivot to HuffPost Is Still Hampered by Ad Buyers Shrinking News

    April 27th, 2023

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    Clean Rooms are a Luxury Good 

    March 3rd, 2023

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    What Marketers Should Know About the Social Media Cases Before the Supreme Court 

    February 22nd, 2023

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    In-Stream vs. Out-Stream: Inside the Update Reshaping Video Advertising 

    February 13th, 2023

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    With AI-based Custom Algorithms, Marketers Wring More Value From the Open Web 

    February 2nd, 2023

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    OpenX Is Officially Net Zero. Here's How It Got There 

    February 1st, 2023

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    Marketers weigh the cons of working with Google Ad Manager amid Justice Department’s new lawsuit

    January 31st, 2023

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    AI-Generated Content Is Here. Should Advertisers Buy It? 

    January 27th, 2023

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    Managing data from Demdex to Sparrow 

    January 26th, 2023

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    More With the Same: How Future’s In-House Tech Boosts Ad Viewability and Revenue 

    January 18th, 2023

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    Direct Deals Grow for Marketers, but Won't Solve All of Programmatic Ad Buying's Ills 

    January 10th, 2023

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    From ads in video games, retail media, and cookieless tracking — experts predict these 6 surging areas will drive ad industry M&A in 2023

    December 20th, 2022

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    What’s Next in the Ad Tech Vendor Tussle? 

    December 16th, 2022

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    Amazon Poised to Take More Share of the Competitive Clean Room Market 

    December 12th, 2022

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    TikTok will use your data to fuel its multibillion-dollar shopping mall — whether you know it or not

    October 25th, 2022

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    Netflix Ad Tier and Other Adland Excitement 

    September 13th, 2022

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    For Walmart, a streamer deal could bolster its growing ad biz

    August 12th, 2022

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    What if… Google parts ways with its ad stack? 

    July 18th, 2022

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    Anyone Can Buy Ads Programmatically. That Presents Risks in a Post-Roe World 

    June 29th, 2022

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    Are they listening?

    July 5th, 2022

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    Why Human Experience? (vs Customer, Consumer, User, etc.)​ 

    July 1st, 2022

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    Amazon Web Services Inks Partnership With Trade Desk Over UID2 Cookieless Solution​ 

    June 22nd, 2022

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    Third-party Cookies 

    June 21st, 2022

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    Data Privacy in the Evolving Advertising Landscape​ 

    April 28th, 2022

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    Ana Milicevic, Principal and Co-founder of Sparrow Digital Holdings 

    March 25th, 2022

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    How Microsoft’s Massive Video Game Business Could Renew Its Ad Industry Ambitions

    February 7th, 2022

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    FTC Calls Out Targeted Ads for Social Media Scams

    February 3rd, 2022

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    Are Topics solving for the right consumer experience?

    January 31st, 2022

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    What Spotify's Joe Rogan uproar means for brands

    January 28th, 2022

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    The Industry Bristles From Latest Unredacted ‘Revelations’ In Google Antitrust Suit – But Does Anything Change?​

    January 19th, 2022

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    As the digital ad industry grows, and employees quit, companies are desperate to hire

    December 21st, 2021

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    Marketing Brew’s favorite Twitter follows in 2021

    December 20th, 2021

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    Why marketers think the metaverse was 2021’s most overhyped trend

    December 20th, 2021

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    How Publishers Can Build A 20-Year Ad-Tech Stack: Sparrow’s Milicevic 

    November 22, 2021

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    Mediaocean's M&A Merry-Go-Round Takes Another Twist

    September 3rd, 2021

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    Inside out: Brands are bringing media in-house, but not without roadblocks

    August 27th, 2021

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    People Believe Tech Platforms are Eavesdropping on Conversations, Maybe It’s Time to Listen to Them

    August 24th, 2021

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    What is the metaverse?

    August 9th. 2021

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    Entrepreneur and Digital Technology Innovator, Ana Milicevic, Joins ID5’s Board of Directors

    July 22nd, 2021

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    Future-proofing Digital Advertising: EP2 with Sparrow Advisers' Ana Milicevic

    July 22nd, 2021

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    The Big Story: The Trade Desk does VC

    July 9th, 2021

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    What Pubs And Ad Tech Really Think Of Google's 'Project Bernanke

    April 13th, 2021

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    When Clubhouse runs out of money  

    March 24th, 2021

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    Christie’s Isn’t Just Adopting NFTs as Part of Its Digital Transformation

    March 11th, 2021

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    The Wall Street Journal is revamping its digital strategy to get more traffic — and it's creating tension among some reporters

    March 4th, 2021

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    The Industry Reacts to Google’s New Stance on Alternate Identifiers

    March 4th, 2021

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    ​Interview Series: Sparrow Advisers

    February 25th, 2021

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    Media SPACs: here are 11 high profile blank -check companies to watch

    January 31st, 2021

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    Why that ad for butt-flap pajamas is following you all over the internet

    December 21, 2020

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    Apple’s seismic change to the mobile ad industry is drawing near, and it’s rocking the ecosystem​

    December 15th, 2020

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    How CES plans to recreate Las Vegas-deal making with its online event

    December 15th, 2020

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    Prepare for impact: Why the overhaul of the Privacy Act poses an existential threat to customer data and advertising as we know it 

    December 8th, 2020

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    Say Hello to Walgreens Advertising Group, the Latest Retail Media Network

    December 3rd, 2020

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    Sparrow Advisers’ Ana Milicevic Discusses Innovation To Align Distribution With Consumer Demand 

    October 28th, 2020

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    Interview Series: Ana Milicevic

    October 16th, 2020

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    Venmo’s New Credit Card Puts QR Codes Front and Center

    October 7th, 2020

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    Advertising disrupted: What user privacy means for marketers 

    September 17th, 2020

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    Oracle's proposed TikTok deal signals how marketing cloud giants' battle for ad dollars is getting harder

    September 15th, 2020

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    AT&T spent billions to revolutionize advertising – now it looks like it's all but giving up on it

    September 4th, 2020

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    All the potential buyers of AT&T's digital ad business, which is reportedly for sale

    September 3rd, 2020

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    Publishers could soon have more leverage to force Apple to relax its ‘my way or the highway’ approach​

    August 25th, 2020

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    Ad Targeting's center of gravity is shifting

    August 12th, 2020

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    Running a Growing Business 

    August 12th, 2020

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    Mergers and acquisitions in the time of Coronavirus

    July 17th, 2020

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    Amazon's TikTok ban was a false alarm, capping off a whirlwind week of suspicion toward China-backed app

    July 10th, 2020

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    How Will Mobile Advertising Adapt if MAIDs are Eliminated?​

    June 29th, 2020

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    Steal this idea: 7 ad tech founders share what businesses they'd start today if they could

    June 12th, 2020

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    Twitter unveils 'don't @ me' feature for silencing trolls and 'reply guys'

    May 21st, 2020

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    US antitrust regulators are poised for Google crackdown

    May 18th, 2020

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    Are Ad Agencies Equipped to Drive Digital Transformation? 

    May 4th, 2020

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    Meeting a Present Normal

    April 19th, 2020

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    The tidy-up job: what will DDB's Wendy Clark face at Dentsu Aegis Network?

    April 8th, 2020

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    Social Distancing With Friends 

    April 3rd, 2020

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    Interview Series: Ana Milicevic 

    April 28th, 2020

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    Apple’s Cookie-Blocking Update Causes Publishers More Pain

    March 25th, 2020

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    Thanks to mass events postponements, media events stack up in the fall

    March 13th, 2020

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    8 media and streaming-TV companies experts say could be acquired this year (after Fox bought Tubi)

    March 4th, 2020

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    Mobile device IDs will be the next ad tracker to bite the dust

    February 10th, 2020

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    How Ad Tech is bracing for life after the cookie

    February 9th, 2020
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    German investment group MGI nears deal to acquire mobile ad firm Verve

    January 22, 2020

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    TikTok security flaw left user accounts vulnerable to attacks

    January 8th, 2020

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    Ad Tech’s Consolidation Continues as Cadent Acquires 4INFO

    January 2nd, 2020

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    The media industry’s 2020 resolutions

    December 31, 2019

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    The cautionary tale of IgnitionOne, a onetime digital marketing pioneer that ended up selling in a fire sale

    December 16th, 2019

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    Ad Tech’s Response to Privacy Pushback and New Regulations Leans Toward a Post-Cookie World

    December 9, 2019

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    Ad industry groups unite behind new privacy principles

    December 3, 2019

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    Can Publicis patriarch Maurice Lévy salvage the WeWork brand?

    November 25, 2019

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    TripAdvisor gives small businesses a boost with self-serve advertising platform

    November 21st, 2019

    Ana Milicevic Sparrow Digiday quotes

    Ad tech firm AdTheorent explores sale

    November 15th, 2019

    Maja Milicevic Sparrow AdWeek quotes

    How can Viant differentiate in commoditized ad-tech market?

    November 4th, 2019

    Ana Milicevic quotes APAC Australia

    Why CFOs cut marketing budgets? "We've done a terrible job explaining what we do". 

    October 16th, 2019

    Ana Milicevic Sparrow AdNews quotes

    Is the cookie having an identity crisis or do advertisers need better ideas?

    October 14th, 2019

    Ana Milicevic AdWeek quotes

    Making sense of the 5 major holdings companies' data offerings

    September 29th, 2019

    Ana Milicevic AdWeek Profile Leadership

    AdWeek profiles Ana Milicevic of Sparrow Advisers

    September 23rd, 2019

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    August 14th, 2019

    Ana Milicevic speaks at AdWeek NexTech

    11 key takeaways on AdTech from industry leaders

    July 31st, 2019

    Ana Milicevic speaks at AdWeek NexTech

    Brands could 'kneecap' themselves without the right talent on in-house programmatic teams  

    July 25th, 2019

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    Should Google Be Broken Up? And Four Other Burning Questions As The DOJ Begins Its Antitrust Investigation

    June 10th, 2019

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    How Serious Is Amazon’s Challenge to Google and Facebook?

    June 3rd, 2019

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    How LiveRamp intends to woo advertisers now that the cookie is starting to crumble?

    May 30th, 2019

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    Industry leaders discuss a future without advertising, technology and gender, AI and creativity and more

    May 29th, 2019

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    Facebook is cleaning up its content but not for the sake of its advertisers 

    May 24th, 2019

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    Google aligns with consultants on Cloud as marketing converges with the enterprise

    May 20th, 2019

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    The five looming questions about Google Chrome's new privacy rules

    May 10th, 2019

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    Amazon is winning lucrative shopper-marketing budgets

    May 8th, 2019

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    Advertisers are hedging on Google as it enacts GDPR compliant polices  

    April 29th, 2019

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    Will the $4.4 Billion Epsilon acquisition create new data challenges for Publicis?

    April 25th, 2019

    Maja Milicevic weighs in on Epsilon's data assets

    What first party data does Epsilon actually have?

    April 17th, 2019

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    Ad Industry critiques Cannes Lions' choice of Cambridge Analytica CEO as featured speaker

    April 4th, 2019

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    Can YouTube ever be completely safe for advertisers?

    February 22nd, 2019

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    Why do advertisers keep spending more and more with the walled gardens? 

    February 15th, 2019

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    What is stoking investor interest in ad tech and mar tech?

    January 17, 2019

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    What P&G’s media reshuffle tells us about its in-housing ambitions​

    January 17, 2019

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    Ana Milicevic discusses data management without failure in this week's AdExchanger podcast with Zach Rodgers

    December 19th, 2018

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    CMO Today: Three wishes for 2019

    December 17th, 2018

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    Fighting ad fraud in 2019

    December 17th, 2018

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    Is ATT on the way to become the next walled garden?

    December 14th, 2018

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    Most Intriguing AdTech and MarTech Startups

    December 10th, 2018

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    "Finally someone gets arrested" - era of accountability

    November 28th, 2018

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    What to look for when investing in Ad Tech and Mar Tech in 2019

    November 5th, 2018

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    Adobe's almost $5B acquisition of Marketo: harbinger of further consolidation?

    September 20th, 2018

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    Ana Milicevic named one of 23 advertising executives cleaning up the industry by Business Insider

    August 21st, 2018

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    Should MediaMath buy Rubicon Project? Industry fantasy acquisition game with commentary by Ana Milicevic.

    July 17th, 2018

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    The Future of Work 

    April 30th, 2018

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