Yahoo DSP is launching an ‘agent network’

As advertisers grow increasingly anxious about AI governance, transparency, and platform concentration, Yahoo is positioning its demand-side platform as an alternative to the industry’s emerging black boxes.

Yahoo DSP has today unveiled a new Agent Network that connects advertisers with AI-powered tools from 23 ad tech partners across a number of different ad campaign parameters: audience targeting, campaign activation, creative, and measurement workflows.

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All of this marks the latest attempt by a major ad-tech platform to define its role in the emerging agentic advertising ecosystem, with the launch representing a key part of the DSP’s messaging at next week’s Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity.

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Media Briefing: The new World Cup SEO playbook: What’s in and what’s out

This week’s Media Briefing looks at why the World Cup is no longer the easy search traffic win it once was, and how publishers are adjusting their strategies to pull people in.

  • The new World Cup playbook
  • Reuters Institute report shows people are swapping news sites for social, video platforms
  • U.K. publishers move to charge tech companies for AI scraping, Washington Post gets hit with class-action lawsuit around subscription pricing, and more

The new World Cup playbook

The World Cup used to be a guaranteed search traffic bonanza for publishers. In the age of AI answers and zero-click search, that playbook is being adapted to changes in SEO, direct audience and off-platform strategies.

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