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Indie Agency Acadia Aims for 50% of Revenue From Retail Media by 2026

Adweek

Agency holding companies have been on a tear to acquire commerce shops. Just this week, Havas said it plans to acquire Channel Bakers. Publicis Groupe has spent big on companies including Mars Commerce and CitrusAd. And Omnicom's acquisition of Flywheel Digital last year for $835 million was the holding company's largest deal to date.

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Google Sought to Pay Agencies Hundreds of Millions to Sway Media Buys

Adweek

Google planned to spend hundreds of millions of dollars incentivizing agencies to purchase certain types of its media, according to new documents filed last week in the Department of Justice's upcoming antitrust trial against Google. The documents reveal the inner workings of Google's incentive programs with agencies and advertisers.

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Agencies Continue to Receive Perks From Media Owners That Aren’t Disclosed to Clients

Adweek

Incentive programs between large media companies and agencies continue to lead to poor advertising decisions and less transparency for smaller clients, 10 sources from agencies, brands, and publishers told ADWEEK. There is.

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How Horizon Media Cut Carbon Emissions in Half While Boosting Performance

Adweek

Horizon Media is all in on green media. Starting May 2024, the agency shifted all of the programmatic campaigns that were running through supply-side platform Sharethrough to the adtech firm's green private marketplaces, trademarked as GreenPMPs.

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Best of AdMonsters Wrapper: The Top Ad Tech News Stories You Couldn’t Stop Clicking on in 2024

Ad Monsters

Missed the most buzzworthy ad tech stories of the year? In 2024, ad tech kept us on our toes with innovation, controversy, and everything in between. Whether it was AI upending ad tech norms, Googles legal woes, or streaming giants making bold moves, these stories resonated for a reason.

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Principal Media Has Potential, But Only With Strong Quality Controls

AdExchanger

Over the last few months, the subject of principal media (PM), or principal-based buying, has entered the ad tech zeitgeist.

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Lack of Standardization Stalls Media Decarbonization Efforts

Adweek

Agencies and ad-tech vendors are working to clean up the media supply chain--environmentally speaking. Last week, WPP's GroupM announced an updated version of its carbon calculator, based on the media decarbonization methodology released last July. It lets agencies estimate the carbon emissions of a client's.

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