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All Episodes

The Yield Doctor with James Deaker — 55 episodes

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1

Maximum Yield: Kiri Masters on Growing Your Retail Media Bottom Line

2

What Is dCPM in Digital Advertising? (Simple Explanation)

3

Sales Incentives Should Align to Profit… Except When They Shouldn’t

4

Rate Card Update - The Heartbeat of Your Pricing Strategy (And Why It Matters)

5

The Hidden Cost of Custom Rate Cards

6

Pricing has no power

7

Why Revenue Can Fall Even When Every Product Raises Prices

8

RampUp 2026: Three Signals About Where AI in Advertising Is Really Heading

9

AI Won’t Fix Bad Data — Identity Resolution & Enrichment Drive Revenue (Brian Silver)

10

Stronger Data Controls Let Companies Move Faster

11

Bad Ads are Good Signals

12

Three Ways Publishers Go Programmatic (And Why Most Get It Wrong)

13

Retail Media Networks Grow in Predictable Stages — and Each One Has a Trap

14

Retail vs Commerce Media Networks: Growth, Data & AI with Danilo Tauro

15

Dynamic Pricing - An abused technique

16

AI in Ad Tech - Evolution vs. Revolution

17

From Zero to One: How Lyft Built Its Advertising Business with Shane Dwyer

18

Yield Book - 4 Lessons

19

Jan Pasternak

20

Airlines Mastered Yield. Why Can’t Digital Ads?

21

Book Review: Yield by Ari Paparo

22

Blind and Transparent Ad Networks

23

2025 Lower Price Floors YT

24

Cherry Picking in Ad Tech: What It Is and How to Protect Your Inventory

25

Goldilocks Metrics: Avoiding the Deal Desk Optimization Mistake

26

The Discounting Trap: How Pulling Demand Forward Breaks Your Business

27

Lauren Weinberg - CMO Scorecard

28

What Happened to Publisher Pricing Software?

29

How AI Is Actually Changing Ad Operations — with Nagarajan Chakravarthy

30

Meta Goes All-In on AI Ads: What It Means for Advertisers & Agencies

31

How AI Is Reshaping Digital Advertising – A Deep Dive with Alanna Laforet

32

Alex Roucourt on Adverting Uplift

33

Shiv Gupta Earnings May 2025

34

Yield Stories - Sell Out The Homepage!

35

House Ads Explained

36

Yield Stories Get Price Up

37

Yield Stories: The Wrong House Ads

38

Nate McCoy Building Ad Tech

39

Randall Rothenberg Interview

40

Yield Stories: Peter Naylor - The Chicken Story

41

JoAnna Full Interview with James Deaker

42

Matt Gay Interview - Ad Operations driving Yield improvements

43

Yield Stories - Rate Card Updates

44

Peter Naylor Maximizing Video Advertising

45

Paul Lewis - Set Better Prices

46

Simon Halstead on Programmatic Curation

47

Tim Stephens

48

4 things publishers get wrong about Programmatic Advertising

49

Ramona Gonzales Lessons

50

Michael Albers Mastering Fractional Work

51

Marc Grabowski

52

Greg MacDonald 2024 Ad Tech Trends

53

Ian Thomas building Analytics in Digital Media

54

Stephanie Gutnik on DOOH

55

Angie Eng Interview