21 · Digiday
Apple's Safari crackdown pushes ad tech toward server-side solutions, but doubts remain
Why it matters
Apple's Safari block on identity-resolution providers is pushing ad tech toward the IAB Tech Lab's server-side Trusted Server.
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22 · Digiday
Apple finally explains its Safari block, and identity companies are in its sights
Why it matters
Apple's growing ad business puts its Safari blocklist under scrutiny.
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23 · Refacto AdTech
Paramount dumps FreeWheel, Netflix bids direct, Wurl finds bad genre data
Why it matters
Paramount-Skydance may drop FreeWheel before it moves to rival NBCUniversal, and Wurl found only 11% of CTV ad requests carry a usable show name.
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24 · Digiday
Future of TV Briefing: CTV advertising has a genre-label problem
Why it matters
Digiday's Future of TV briefing finds that CTV advertising has a genre-labeling problem.
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25 · Digiday
How Lush quit social media ads and still drove growth
Why it matters
Lush quit Meta, TikTok and X ads and still grew.
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26 · Digiday
Post World Cup, fashion brands are tapping soccer stars like Bellingham and Yamal
Why it matters
Three months after the World Cup, fashion brands are signing stars like Bellingham and Yamal.
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27 · Digiday
One year in: DMG Media's social-only briefs account for 30% of New Media revenue
Why it matters
A year in, DMG Media's creator-led social-only briefs account for 30% of its New Media revenue.
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28 · Status
Woodward's Source Spill
Why it matters
Bob Woodward's memoir names confidential sources, most of them now dead, prompting a debate over whether anonymity outlives a source.
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29 · SportBusiness
The commissioner who made MLS worth buying
Why it matters
Don Garber leaves MLS with five billion-dollar clubs and a $500 million entry fee, but most clubs still lose money and expansion is paused.
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30 · SportBusiness
Valencia secures vital funding in 42% stake sale
Why it matters
A KKR-founder-backed consortium bought 42% of Valencia at a €1.25 billion valuation.
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31 · SportBusiness
Liga MX edges closer to rights centralisation
Why it matters
Liga MX clubs agreed not to renew individual media deals after 2028, a step toward collective selling.
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32 · Yahoo Sports
Rays-Brewers Game 1 viewership beats recent non-Dodgers World Series
Why it matters
The Brewers-Rays World Series is running well ahead of 2023's small-market matchup in viewership.
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33 · The Athletic
The NBA wants the WNBA to grow. This Finals scheduling blunder won't help
Why it matters
A potential title-clinching WNBA Finals Game 6 tips off at 12:30 p.m. ET on a Thursday because the Hawks have the arena in prime time.
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34 · The Athletic
MSG Sports splits Knicks, Rangers into separate publicly traded companies
Why it matters
MSG Sports split the Knicks and Rangers into separate publicly traded companies.
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35 · The Bond Buyer
Deal reached to end K.C. Chiefs stadium project lawsuit
Why it matters
A settlement ends the lawsuit over the Chiefs' domed stadium, clearing the move to Kansas City, Kansas, for 2031.
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