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2025 was the year of loose ends, according to Digiday executive editor of news Seb Joseph. He and managing editor Sara Jerde joined Digiday Podcast hosts Kimeko McCoy and Tim Peterson to gather together those loose ends and assess which may be tied up in 2026.

Among those loose ends are Netflix’s planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming businesses, WPP’s turnaround plan, TikTok’s U.S. spinoff, ChatGPT’s expected ad product and the resulting remedies of Google’s ad tech antitrust trial.

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AI momentum papered over Google’s reset year

From an ad tech perspective, 2025 will be remembered as the year Google quietly recalibrated — retreating from some of its longest-running bets while accelerating decisively in others.

The most visible reversal came with the effective end of the Privacy Sandbox experiment and Google’s decision to walk back plans to fully deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome.

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