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The Yield Doctor with James Deaker, 76 episodes.

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1

What Happens When AI Agents Run Ad Ops? Burt CEO, Shay Brog

2

The 900 Optimizations Your Ad Ops Team Never Gets To | Frans Vermeulen, Swivel

3

What Happens When an Ad Tech Company Goes All-In on AI? | CEO Nicolas Schueller

4

Bonus Impressions vs. Price Discounts: Which Protects Publisher Yield?

5

What is Kana? Building AdTech with CTO Vivek Vaidya

6

Why Target Sell-Through Rates Are a Massive Mistake

7

FTC ruling on Amazon Ads - What was Amazon thinking?

8

LeadershipIn podcast - James Deaker, Greg MacDonald, Geoff Wolinetz

9

Fast Effective Ratecard Updates

10

3 AI Pricing Traps that Publishers and Ad Tech companies need to avoid

11

AdTech Pirate Gold: Finding value in Supply Path Optimization

12

3 Pricing Traps to avoid

13

Inventory Forecasting Made Easy: 5 Rules for Digital Publishers

14

Digital Advertising needs AI Guardrails

15

Monica Khan on the Creator Economy

16

Beyond the Price List: Most Media Rate Cards Leak Revenue

17

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

18

What Is dCPM in Digital Advertising? (Simple Explanation)

19

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

20

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

21

The Hidden Cost of Custom Rate Cards

22

Pricing has no power

23

Why Revenue Can Fall Even When Every Product Raises Prices

24

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

25

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

26

Stronger Data Controls Let Companies Move Faster

27

Bad Ads are Good Signals

28

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

29

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

30

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

31

Dynamic Pricing - An abused technique

32

AI in Ad Tech - Evolution vs. Revolution

33

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

34

Yield Book - 4 Lessons

35

Jan Pasternak

36

Airlines Mastered Yield. Why Can’t Digital Ads?

37

Book Review: Yield by Ari Paparo

38

Blind and Transparent Ad Networks

39

2025 Lower Price Floors YT

40

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

41

Goldilocks Metrics: Avoiding the Deal Desk Optimization Mistake

42

The Discounting Trap: How Pulling Demand Forward Breaks Your Business

43

Lauren Weinberg - CMO Scorecard

44

What Happened to Publisher Pricing Software?

45

How AI Is Actually Changing Ad Operations — with Nagarajan Chakravarthy

46

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

47

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

48

Alex Roucourt on Adverting Uplift

49

Shiv Gupta Earnings May 2025

50

Yield Stories - Sell Out The Homepage!

51

House Ads Explained

52

Yield Stories Get Price Up

53

Yield Stories: The Wrong House Ads

54

Nate McCoy Building Ad Tech

55

Randall Rothenberg Interview

56

Yield Stories: Peter Naylor - The Chicken Story

57

JoAnna Full Interview with James Deaker

58

Matt Gay Interview - Ad Operations driving Yield improvements

59

Yield Stories - Rate Card Updates

60

Peter Naylor Maximizing Video Advertising

61

Paul Lewis - Set Better Prices

62

Simon Halstead on Programmatic Curation

63

How to Measure True Ad Performance: iROAS, MROI, and iCMAM Explained

64

Tim Stephens

65

How to Track Digital Ad Prices Over Time (Without Guessing)

66

4 things publishers get wrong about Programmatic Advertising

67

Ramona Gonzales Lessons

68

Why Most Digital Publishers Struggle Without a Yield Team

69

Michael Albers Mastering Fractional Work

70

Non Programmatic Pricing Attributes

71

Marc Grabowski

72

Greg MacDonald 2024 Ad Tech Trends

73

Ian Thomas building Analytics in Digital Media

74

The Hidden Costs of Adding More Ads – A Yield Management Breakdown

75

Stephanie Gutnik on DOOH

76

Angie Eng Interview