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Tim Peterson

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Future of TV Briefing: WTF is server-guided ad insertion?
This week's Future of TV Briefing looks at server-guided ad insertion, a newish method for inserting ads into streaming video on the fly.
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AdCP vs. IAB Tech Lab: Inside programmatic advertising’s agentic AI standards showdown
Ad Context Protocol and IAB Tech Lab's Agentic Roadmap offer two competing approaches for updating ad tech for AI agents. Can they coexist?
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Future of TV Briefing: CTV identity matches are usually wrong
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at a Truthset study showing the error rate for matches between IP and deterministic IDs like email addresses can exceed 84%.
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Future of TV Briefing: How AI agents prime TV advertising for ‘premium automation’
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how agentic AI can enable TV networks to automate the sales of complex linear TV ad packages.
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Inside NBCUniversal’s test to use AI agents to sell ads against a live NFL game
NBCUniversal’s Ryan McConville joined the Digiday Podcast to break down the mechanics of the company’s first-of-its-kind agentic AI ad sales test.
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Future of TV Briefing: The creator’s economy’s ‘very loud, dirty little secret’ of brands’ late, delayed payments
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how lengthening payment windows and late payments from brands continue to roil the creator economy.
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Future of TV Briefing: YouTube develops new program to pitch brands on top creators’ shows
This week’s Future of TV Briefing reports on YouTube’s new pilot program that would have brands sponsor shows from top creators.
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The top AI platforms for publishers, ranked
Digiday’s Jessica Davies and Sara Guaglione joined the Digiday Podcast to handicap the more than a half-dozen AI platforms, from Amazon to OpenAI, that have begun doing business with publishers.
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Future of TV Briefing: Brands are spending more to advertise creators’ content, making usage rights a focal point
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at what brands spending more money to promote creators’ content means for creator compensation models.
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Future of TV Briefing: 5 ripple effects that will shape the future of TV in 2026
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at the trends and developments that will shape the TV, streaming and digital video industry in 2026.
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‘A year of loose ends’: Digiday editors share top takeaways from 2025
This year was filled with major developments – from Netflix’s planned WBD deal to Omnicom’s acquisition of IPG to Google’s ultimately cookie reversal – and Digiday editors Sara Jerde and Seb Joseph...
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Future of TV Briefing: How the future of TV shaped up in 2025
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks back at the top topics and trends that overtook the TV, streaming and digital video industries in 2025.
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The Disney-OpenAI deal and generative AI copyright concerns
This week’s Digiday Podcast delves into the copyright concerns and potential trademark issues surrounding brands’ use of generative AI tools, with Davis Wright Tremaine partner Rob Driscoll.
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Programmatic agency execs speak out on CTV transparency
At the recent Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit, agency executives spoke out — on stage and in behind-closed-door town hall sessions — on how they see transparency in CTV.
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Do AI agents have a place in programmatic advertising?
Agency and ad tech executives explain what tasks in their programmatic advertising workflows they would -- and wouldn't -- outsource to AI agents.
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Future of TV Briefing: How agencies are setting up their programmatic teams for the agentic AI era
This week’s Future of TV Briefing recaps two sessions from last week’s Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit about how agencies’ programmatic buying teams are evolving.
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The case against AI agents for programmatic ad buying
Hallucination and latency are two main reasons against incorporating AI agents in programmatic ad buying, though there’s still a place for AI agents in programmatic workflows.
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Future of TV Briefing: The streaming ad upfront trends, programmatic priorities revealed in Q3 2025 earnings reports
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at what TV and streaming companies’ latest quarterly earnings report indicate about the state of the streaming ad market.
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