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In today’s newsletter: Meta will shutter news benchmarking service CrowdTangle; Reddit rolls out a new ad format to monetize its user activity; and the ANA readies a report analyzing the programmatic supply chain.

Without an easy interface for clicking through to purchase, audio and video ads have, until recently, been best suited to upper-funnel brand-awareness campaigns rather than direct response. But now, tried-and-true technologies like retargeted display ads and QR codes are making audio and video formats more actionable.

It’s very easy for frequency to go beyond being effective to the point that it’s actually detrimental. There are certain credit card companies I have pledged to never use because their jingle annoys me so much it ruins my sleep, says Fred Godfrey, CEO and co-founder of CTV ad platform Origin.