Why advertisers should stop treating verification like a receipt

The advertising industry has spent years treating verification as a relatively narrow exercise, asking only, “Was the impression viewable? Was there invalid traffic? Was the content safe?”

Those questions are no longer enough. 

Over the last seven years, one simple message has become clear: Advertisers need to understand not only whether an impression met a minimum standard — but what they actually bought, why it performed and what they should do differently the next time they bid. They need to know that the inventory they’re buying is what it claims to be before the money is spent, not only in hindsight.

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Future of TV Briefing: Every major streaming subscription price increase since 2019

This week’s Future of TV Briefing features charts breaking down every monthly subscription price change since 2019 across ad-free and ad-supported tiers for nine major streaming services.

  • Price check
  • NFL’s next rights deals, YouTube’s questionable co-viewing metric and more

Price check

Stream-flation is real. For the past several years, major streaming services have increased their subscription prices like clockwork. Or like cable TV providers.

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