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Bob Regular

Bob Regular

Jul 24, 2026

2:59
Right.
2:59
So we're obviously doing something right.
3:02
Uh, we pioneered back in '07 some really awesome movements.
3:06
Uh, the first movement that we sort of pioneered in ad tech or digital media was the in-text advertising movement, the idea, you know, when you go to your website and there'd be a, a highlighted text link, uh, on, on the words on the editorial page.
3:17
Could be the word mortgage or could be the word, you know, uh, car loan or whatever it is, and when you'd roll over it, it would open a bubble or show an advertisement related to that.
3:26
So we pioneered that back in the, in the early 2000s, and that sort of led the contextual movement, the concept of keywords on a page, uh, sentiment on a page.
3:36
And, and now we're-- You know, we've evolved a lot now to, um, sort of driving towards what we call the proprietary movement.

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20:20
Right, right.
0:48
How do you think AI is impacting the change that we're seeing today?
0:53
Well, our industry, the digital media advertising industry, loves fads.
0:57
And so we chase fads all the time, whether they're meaningful or whether or not they're just conceptual.
1:05
They just make us excited.
1:06
And there have been a lot over the years.
1:08
But I do think that AI is foundational.
1:11
I think this is a true tectonic shift for digital media.
4:43
You have some that you would call out as, and they may be interesting and they may be useful today, but that you think might be more of a fad than having the sticking power of some of these other things we've just talked about.

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