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The Big Story

Mar 31, 2022

Retail media is reaching the C-suite, with advertising (and first-party data projects) coming up in retailer earnings. Then, we talk about the $16 billion deal to buy Nielsen.


Mar 24, 2022

We analyze the WTF moments from BuzzFeed’s first earnings report – including the negative effect of Facebook’s audience declines. Plus: We dive into Google Ad Manager’s acronym soup and share an audio TL;DR on Google’s publisher-focused signals, including PPIDs and ESPs.


Mar 17, 2022

Google Analytics is removing the IP address from its global product. We get into the data privacy whys, as well as what Google Analytics is building in its place, in this week’s episode. Also: The EARN IT act and how American Express overhauled its attribution model in anticipation of loss of signal.


Mar 9, 2022

When the time comes to take up arms, the best weapons – or tools – are the ones you’re most familiar with. And in Ukraine, advertising is becoming a weapon of choice wielded against misinformation, explains MGID CEO Sergey Denisenko. He joins the podcast from western Ukraine to report on the situation, and how the...


Mar 3, 2022

This week, there’s only one big story: the Russian invasion and war in Ukraine. The worlds of media, marketing and technology are reckoning with their role in a time of war. Difficult theoretical questions of content moderation and information access are all of a sudden not-so-theoretical and advertisers, too, must...