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July 15, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: The M&A match game (summer 2026 edition)
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at the M&A deals that should be in the offing after an active first half of 2026.
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July 1, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: The 5 biggest news stories of 2026 so far
This week's Future of TV Briefing looks back at the most significant developments -- or non-developments-- in the TV, streaming and digital video industry during the first half of 2026.
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June 24, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: The ad-supported streaming landscape in graphic detail
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at a spate of recent studies that highlight the growing predominance of ad-supported streaming and the risk in how brands are managing streaming campaigns.
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June 17, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: Fox finds its programmatic identify in Roku
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how Fox’s acquisition of Roku bolsters the former’s streaming — specifically, programmatic streaming — advertising business.
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June 15, 2026
WTF is vector-based ad targeting?
Traditional text-based ad targeting will always have its place. But in an ad marketplace run by AI agents, it may need to be replaced as the primary method of aiming ads.
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June 10, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: How TV and streaming networks are laying the groundwork for outcome-based buying
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how this year’s upfront sets up for outcome-based buying in future upfronts.
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June 3, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: How TV-streaming ad sellers are pitching fluidity in this year’s upfront market
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how AMC Global Media, Disney, Paramount, TelevisaUnivision and Warner Bros. Discovery are combining their linear TV and streaming inventory for ad sales.
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May 27, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: How AI agents will figure into this year’s upfront negotiations
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at the conversations that upfront sellers including Disney, Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery are looking to have with advertisers regarding incorporating...
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May 20, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: The upfront is overtaking streaming’s programmatic marketplace
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how major TV and streaming ad sellers are seeing upfront deals represent a larger share of their programmatic businesses.
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May 15, 2026
Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit May Recap: How marketers are navigating agentic ad buying
Execs are already using AI agents to buy ads. At DPMS, they shared what's worked (and what hasn't) and the guardrails that the industry needs to put in place to future proof.
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May 13, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: Inside Warner Bros. Discovery’s programmatic upfront pitch
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how WBD’s programmatic advertising business has evolved with programmatic playing a bigger part in its upfront deals.
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May 11, 2026
‘Google doesn’t care that it’s terrible’: Brand, agency execs air frustrations with The Trade Desk, Google’s Performance Max, Meta’s Advantage+
Think transparency is hard to come by in programmatic advertising? Well, get a bunch of brand and agency executives in a room, and they’ll get super transparent about how opaque the digital ad mark...
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May 6, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: The upfront glossary, 2026 edition
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at the terms on the tips of ad buyers’ and sellers’ tongues when talking about the upfront market.
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April 29, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: Ad tech’s pod bidding push moves CTV toward advancing the live sports ad model in 2026
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how ad tech companies including Comcast’s FreeWheel, Index Exchange and The Trade Desk are preparing CTV’s programmatic supply chain for upgraded auction ...
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April 22, 2026
Future of TV Briefing: The ambitious and alarming proposal fix to TV and streaming’s identity crisis
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement’s Identity Infrastructure 2.0 proposal that aims to address TV and streaming’s fractured identity picture —...
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