AT&T’s WarnerMedia and Xandr approached this year’s upfront as separate entities, while agency execs pressed for joint meetings.
August 19, 2019

Roughly a year after AT&T acquired WarnerMedia (née Time Warner) and officially introduced its advanced advertising arm Xandr, the telecom giant’s two advertising-related businesses have agency ad buyers seeing double, hoping for a clearer view of how the two divisions will work together. Read more below.

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