Netflix Doubled Its Ad Revenue Last Year – And Expects To Do The Same In 2026
Netflix beat its revenue expectations for last year, ending 2025 with $42.5 billion in revenue, a 16% year-over-year jump. Of that, $1.5 billion came from advertising.
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Gamera Raises $1.6 Million To Protect The Open Web’s Media Quality
Gamera, a media quality measurement startup for publishers, announced on Tuesday it raised $1.6 million to promote its service that combines data about a site’s ad experience with data about how its ads perform.
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Meta Bets That Its Ad Machine Can Fund Its AI Dreams
Meta is channeling its booming ad revenue into a $135 billion AI drive to power its “personal superintelligence” future.
Microsoft To Stop Caching Prebid Video Files, Leaving Publishers With A Major Ad Serving Problem
Most publishers have no idea that a major part of their video ad delivery will stop working on April 30, shortly after Microsoft shuts down the Xandr DSP.
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Guess Its AdsGPT Now?
Ads were going to be a “last resort” for ChatGPT, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman promised two years ago. Now, they’re finally here. Omnicom Digital CEO Jonathan Nelson joins the AdExchanger editorial team to talk through what comes next.
Hershey’s Undergoes A Brand Update As It Rethinks Paid, Earned And Owned Media
This Wednesday marks the beginning of Hershey’s first major brand marketing campaign since 2018
A Win For Open Standards: Amazon’s Prebid Adapter Goes Live
Amazon looks to support a more collaborative programmatic ecosystem now that the APS Prebid adapter is available for open beta testing.
New Startup Pinch AI Tackles The Growing Problem Of Ecommerce Return Scams
Fraud is eating into retail profits. A new startup called Pinch AI just launched with $5 million in funding to fight back.
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AI is reshaping how we shop, but agents won’t take over our carts just yet. LiveRamp CEO Scott Howe explains why the change will be gradual – and how chatbot ads (not just on ChatGPT) will change the online shopping experience.
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Prebid is on a roll: It will take charge of a seller agent, part of AdCP, and Amazon’s integration with Prebid is in beta. But there’s one sticking point: Microsoft is not going to cache video ad creatives anymore that come through Prebid, leaving publishers scrambling for an alternative.