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9 receipts tracked • 89% industry hit rate
DSPs, SSPs, identity, supply paths.
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RECEIPT #KAWAJA
NOV 14, 2024
PREDICTION BY
Terry Kawaja“2025 is going to be an excellent year for digital advertising. ... All of these things are leading to a much stronger 2025.”
FOLLOW-UP
The prediction came true as digital ad spending surged past $750 billion worldwide in 2025, confirmed by multiple reports (eMarketer, Oberlo, Dentsu), indicating significant growth. M&A activity also showed a rebound, as noted by IAB's outlook.
ORIGINAL SOURCE
Beet.TVRECEIPT #KINT-G
MAY 21, 2020
PREDICTION BY
Jason Kint“The Google antitrust ship has set its course.”
FOLLOW-UP
DOJ sued Google over search (Oct 2020) and adtech (Jan 2023); both have produced rulings against Google (search monopoly Aug 2024; adtech monopoly Apr 2025).
ORIGINAL SOURCE
Digital Content NextRECEIPT #KAWAJA
MAY 19, 2014
PREDICTION BY
Terry Kawaja“The recent flurry of media M&A activities, including the AT&T DirecTV deal, means that the big players are lining up their assets in advance of the inevitable convergence of TV and digital video.”
FOLLOW-UP
AT&T-DirecTV closed 2015; Disney-Fox 2019; WarnerMedia-Discovery 2022; converged TV/CTV is now the dominant ad-buying narrative. Kawaja called the structural arc a decade early.
ORIGINAL SOURCE
Beet.TVRECEIPT #WIESER
JUL 31, 2017
PREDICTION BY
Brian Wieser“Pivotal Research lowers its rating for Facebook to sell from hold. The firm says the company is facing decelerating growth and that its ad load on the core News Feed is at saturation.”
FOLLOW-UP
Wieser was early — Facebook stock kept rallying through Jan 2018 before the Cambridge Analytica drop. The ad-load saturation thesis was vindicated in 2022 when growth turned negative for the first time.
ORIGINAL SOURCE
CNBCRECEIPT #WIESER
NOV 26, 2018
PREDICTION BY
Brian WieserParaphrase: 2019 U.S. ad spending will grow 4.0%, up from a prior 3.5% forecast.
FOLLOW-UP
Wieser raised his 2019 U.S. ad growth forecast to 4.0%. The direction was right but the number was too low: GroupM put 2019 U.S. ad growth at 6.2% ($244 billion), the fastest since 2000.
ORIGINAL SOURCE
MediaPostRECEIPT #SEUFER
JAN 04, 2021
PREDICTION BY
Eric Seufert“I believe that Apple's upcoming iOS privacy changes will significantly harm Facebook's revenue, causing a roughly 7% revenue impairment in Q2 2021 in the base case scenario.”
FOLLOW-UP
Meta itself estimated ATT cost it ~$10B in 2022 (~8% of ad revenue), validating Seufert's base case almost exactly — and he called it 9 months before ATT even rolled out.
ORIGINAL SOURCE
Mobile Dev MemoEVIDENCE
RECEIPT #BRINKE
MAY 07, 2018
PREDICTION BY
Scott Brinker“The myth of martech consolidation is dead. ... Martech is a long tail with a fat head.”
FOLLOW-UP
Martech landscape grew from 6,829 (2018) to 14,106 (2024) — more than doubled. Long-tail growth has outpaced consolidation every single year since.
ORIGINAL SOURCE
chiefmartecRECEIPT #KAWAJA
JUN 23, 2014
PREDICTION BY
Terry KawajaParaphrase: Fragmentation happens, so get used to it.
FOLLOW-UP
Fragmentation continued exactly as Kawaja predicted: the LUMAscapes kept growing (martech alone hit 14,106 logos in 2024), and the consolidation buyers were told to stop waiting for never arrived at the long-tail level.
ORIGINAL SOURCE
Beet.TV (Cannes Lions)RECEIPT #BERKOW
MAR 22, 2024
PREDICTION BY
David Berkowitz“While streaming services once felt like the death knell for TV advertisers but now are ramping up ad inventory and rolling out ad-supported plans, we'll see that happening in AI too.”
FOLLOW-UP
Within 18 months, every major consumer AI platform Berkowitz pointed to was experimenting with ads. Microsoft Copilot rolled out ads in chat answers, Perplexity launched sponsored questions in November 2024, and OpenAI publicly began exploring ad-supported tiers in 2025. The "subscription-only AI" model he questioned has effectively given way to the streaming-style hybrid he predicted.
