Fighting CTV Fraud: The Urgent Need for Shared Risk and Shared Responsibility

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Relevance? Admiral is pushing the industry to better value and price adblock users — a growing, engaged cohort. Publishers who engage these users are building sustainable value beyond the default.

Chain Reaction: Expect Admiral to become a louder voice around value exchange, soft walls, and segment-based monetization in Q3.

The Hot Fix: Admiral

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Fastener, AdMonsters

Relevance? Sovrn has released new capabilities in Signal to support better first-party data enrichment for its publisher clients — a major step toward future-proofing monetization.

Chain Reaction: Expect more first-party tooling and data science capabilities from Sovrn this year.

The Hot Fix: Sovrn

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Fastener, AdExchanger

Relevance? Datablocks is developing AI-native creative formats for advertisers looking to differentiate messaging and improve clarity in post-cookie environments.

Chain Reaction: Expect to see new privacy-safe formats from Datablocks that adapt dynamically to environment context and screen size.

The Hot Fix: Datablocks

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Fastener, The Drum

Relevance? FatTail uses order-level reconciliation to prevent mismatched bookings and provide a shared ledger for publisher–advertiser alignment.

Chain Reaction: FatTail could become the new default ledger of record for IO compliance and reconciliation.

The Hot Fix: FatTail

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Conde Nast, Expedia, MLB

Relevance? NumberEight replaces third-party cookies with privacy-safe behavioral signals generated directly from in-session interactions.

Chain Reaction: Look for more ID-less audience tech this year as publishers prepare for signal loss at scale.

The Hot Fix: NumberEight

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SCA, Zeno Media

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