Bluesky CEO has vowed to never "enshittify the network with ads" — does anyone actually believe this?

I am surprised that Google or Amazon still haven’t teased enhanced conversational features using GenAI for their smart speakers yet. Getting something like the real-time ChatGPT conversation feature will be an absolute game changer for Alexa and Google Home devices.

A current Apple ad tech employee accused the company of spying on him and other employees via their personal iCloud accounts and forbade him from participating in any public speaking about digital advertising.

www.semafor.com/article/12/0...

Why don’t advertisers care about universal creative IDs? We can all live in blissful creative identification harmony if you register your damn creatives.

This is my analysis of The Trade Desk's strategy to create Ventura, a new CTV operating system. I include many excerpts from TTD CEO Jeff Green's recent visit on The Current podcast, along with my thoughts and takeaways.

www.adtechexplained.com/p/the-trade-...

I wonder what percentage of Bluesky users understand how the decentralized aspects of Bluesky work — because I do not.

So it’s okay for a DSP to bridge an ID themselves (device graph), but an SSP can’t do it even if they flag it as bridged? If the SSP has additional probabilistic insight, why not leverage it?

What is the value of an independent Chrome?

Are we trying the BlueSky thing again?

Poor Bluesky never stood a chance after Threads launched.