Michel Gagnon
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And some of them might have lost touch with what the client really values.
When you see things like transparency, like brand safety that you're mentioning with Unilever's threat, I think we have to go back to really providing value.
And that means you look at, I would say advertisers have become more sophisticated.
And when they look at campaign objectives, they used to think about impressions or clicks.
Now I would say that things are a bit more refined and specific.
So we just need to make sure that we deliver what the client is asking for.
Well, I think if you look at the advertising world at the moment, it's still very fragmented as an industry.
And I think there are too many players.
This is like the former consultant who's talking.
I don't think keeping the same number of players is not sustainable.
It doesn't make sense.
There are too many people in the value chain.
So I think we will see a consolidation.
I think what you have to think about is, okay, what are the capabilities, the tech capabilities?
the tech capabilities of publishers and of advertisers.
I think the reason you will see a consolidation, but you still have a lot of specialization in terms of being able to develop top notch state of the art technology.
And I do not think that the majority of publishers can afford to
to develop the app themselves.
The same thing for brands.
This is not necessarily their core business, especially for publishers.