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Is Agentic Direct the Future?

Scott and Jana on agentic direct. Not a better programmatic pipe: campaigns negotiated by agents and booked straight into the publisher's ad server. Scott makes the case that it hands pricing power back to publishers, Jana asks the questions, and together they get into who could build the marketplaces, what has to come true for any of it to work, and how to be agentic direct ready before the money shows up.

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