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Ad Tech Briefing: The ‘plumbers’ posing as the unlikely saviors of the internet

Tags: media tech
DATE POSTED:July 8, 2025
Related Insights Member Exclusive Media Briefing: ‘Cloudflare is locking the door’: Publishers celebrate victory against AI bot crawlers 

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: publishers are eyeing an uptick in their commercial fortunes in an initiative aimed at more fairly rewarding their painstakingly-assembled (not to mention expensive) content. 

The above is a line we’ve all heard before, particularly during the prolonged (but never realized) saga of the decline of the third-party cookie, and the theoretical upside for publishers rich with first-party data.

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Tags: media tech