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Since advertisers now treat connected TV more like a digital performance channel, expect programmatic CTV demand to keep ramping up – including in the open exchange.

On Monday, UK programmatic buying company MiQ acquired SaaS compliance platform Grasp. Grasp will continue to operate as a standalone unit.

The UK-based ad marketplace announced an additional $1.25 million in funding to supplement its $3 million Series A round, with the goal of attaining profitability.

Magnite’s still enamored of CTV. CTV’s contribution to Magnite’s revenue was up 8% YOY, from $52 million to $56 million.

On Tuesday, PubMatic entered the crowded retail media space with the launch of a self-service ad platform for commerce media called Convert.

Disintermediation is in the air. If The Trade Desk’s OpenPath cuts out SSPs (while claiming not to), Magnite’s ClearLine cuts out DSPs (while claiming not to).

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. It Takes Two ACR data and ad analytics firm Samba TV’s media sales business is now in the hands of programmatic firm MiQ, Deadline reports. As part of the multiyear commercial partnership,  MiQ will directly handle all of Samba’s former sales operations. Meanwhile, […]

The 2022 midterm elections are expected to see a record amount of political ad spend going to streaming, even compared to the 2020 presidential cycle. Almost all marketers love CTV for the granular audience buying it supports, but CTV wouldn’t have the political clout it has today if not for the media’s roots in legacy television.

Life is about balance. Day and night, predator and prey, birth and death. Many view these as opposites, but I consider them counterweights that keep our world in balance. We can say the same about the cookieless and future-proofing discussions currently taking place.

Even as Google announced in July that it would push back its deadline to remove cookies from Chrome to 2024, marketers continue planning for the cookieless future now. It makes sense, as cookies are fast becoming irrelevant. Brands that only use cookie-based solutions are missing out on about 70% of the open web, because cookies are not present on a rapidly expanding number of browsers, devices and platforms.