Overheard at Digiday’s CTV Ad Strategies event: Streaming is reaching 50% of all upfront dollars

The 2025 upfront season is starting to wrap, with sources claiming digital is on the precipice of dominating spend, bringing a new paradigm to negotiations. Clients’ pricing models often favor cheaper CPMs… the challenge is streaming video is expensive  Anonymous townhall participant It’s one where sellers’ ability to offer granularContinue Reading

DoubleVerify overhauls its keyword-blocking policies

By Digiday Editors  •  March 20, 2025  • Ivy Liu DoubleVerify has unveiled policy and product updates as part of its News Accelerator program to reduce the impact of keyword blocklists on publishers.  These developments come amid high-profile criticism of ad verification technologies in successive reports in recent months and,Continue Reading