How to Use programmatic in a Sentence
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On the one hand, there are some clear problems with how programmatic ads are placed.
—Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2017
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My own view is that his politics are less programmatic than that.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2023
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Ads can be sold as slides within the story or through programmatic.
—Staff, USA TODAY, 27 May 2020
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The moment couldn’t be much riper for a backlash to programmatic ads.
—Gilad Edelman, Wired, 13 Aug. 2020
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That’s not to say there’s no more selling to come from programmatic players.
—Justina Lee, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
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On its own, programmatic direct deals cannot be used to eliminate ad fraud.
—Roman Vrublivskyi, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
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That shift requires more than programmatic tweaks.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
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The irony, of course, is that a lot about modern art quickly became very programmatic.
—Washington Post, 8 June 2023
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More news outlets are open to programmatic ad sales, which can help marketers avoid tough topics and hot talk.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 9 Apr. 2025
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Montinieri said the cut would have an impact on the district but would not lead to staffing or programmatic changes in the schools.
—Kathleen McWilliams, Courant Community, 16 May 2017
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Elsewhere, this can come across as dreary, even programmatic.
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
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My understanding is right now most of the ads are programmatic, which means network ads.
—Nilay Patel, The Verge, 14 Aug. 2019
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And in our era of programmatic spending, the general interest site does not win out.
—Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 18 Jan. 2018
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Given other signs of progress on the equity and programmatic front, researchers sought out to see whether that gap has closed.
—Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2023
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The agencies all do programmatic buying of digital ads for clients.
—The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
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That requires structural changes, not programmatic ones.
—Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
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DirecTV sent programmatic code in the stream… that hunted down hacked smart cards and destroyed them.
—ArsTechnica, 22 May 2026
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This type of programmatic product placement is likely to start hitting your smart TV screen in a year or two.
—Ralf Jacob, Fortune, 26 June 2018
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You guys announced a partnership with Netflix to help sell some of the streamers’ programmatic ad space.
—Max Tani, semafor.com, 16 June 2025
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This might add programmatic complexity at times, but Joel was prepared to take on the challenge.
—Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 19 May 2022
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For starters, the company will roll out programmatic access to live sports on Peacock, a major shift in how live events are sold.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2023
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At the level of individual scenes, the show tends to be cautious and programmatic.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
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Thanks to linear media and rolling programmatic deals, even smaller players with modest budgets found their moment in the sun.
—Ivan Guzenko, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
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But much of that latter form of funding is earmarked, with the programmatic priorities of the donor dictating how it must be spent.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 25 Dec. 2021
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That led to the creation of a bill that is in many way prescriptive — calling for specific policy and programmatic steps.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2022
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While some of these initiatives have produced programmatic results, most have not moved the needle for Black and brown people.
—Tawanna Black, Quartz, 28 May 2021
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For example, for programmatic campaigns, a hashed personal email is all that is required for use in a demand-side platform.
—Paula Chiocchi, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
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The district will likely ask voters to allow the money to be used for programmatic funding as well as teaching positions.
—oregonlive.com, 7 Aug. 2019
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That allows [artists] to have sustainable careers that aren’t just driven off programmatic playlisting and being at the whim of that ecosystem.
—Mark Sutherland, Variety, 27 June 2024
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At the lower end, programmatic networks have moved in, gobbling up the traditional ad real estate at a much lower price point.
—Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 3 Jan. 2017
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