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Financial services and food delivery advertisers are adapting their approach to programmatic sports buys using tech built for betting brands. 

Genius Sports launched partnerships with DirecTV Advertising, Equativ, FreeWheel, Index Exchange, Magnite, OpenX, PubMatic and The Weather Company at the IAB NewFronts this week, allowing advertisers to use its ‘Moment Engine’ to direct advertising spend through their inventory and publisher networks.

The system pulls live sports data such as player-specific stats or scorelines from sports leagues like the NFL or NASCAR, and matches it with addressable live sports inventory – essentially enabling brands to target their CTV and display ads to specific in-game moments, such as following a touchdown, on the fly. 

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The past few weeks have produced one of the more theatrical transparency disputes in programmatic advertising’s history. Three of the big six holding companies have either exited or are auditing The Trade Desk. The dominant independent DSP’s stock is down roughly a third in 2026. And everyone involved is claiming, with varying degrees of conviction, to be acting in the client’s interest.

A cynic might note that transparency has always been this industry’s most useful weapon — deployed selectively, against whoever currently threatens your position in the chain. In the end, the only thing the supply chain agrees on is that someone else should open their books first. 

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