Ad Tech
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Data-Driven Thinking
Beyond Automation: How AI Is Rewiring Control In The Ad Tech Stack
The advertising industry is full of noise about AI making buy-side and sell-side processes more efficient. That framing is convenient, but it misses a broader point. Speed and effectiveness are easy to celebrate. Power dynamics are harder to talk about. Most conversations about AI in ad tech focus on fewer manual steps, more dynamic creative, […]
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AI
How Realtor.com Is Using AI Creative To Expand Its Ad Footprint
Realtor.com is working with AI marketing startup BrandComms.AI to generate ad creative more quickly and across a wider array of channels.
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Marketers
How Molson Coors Keeps Creative Effectiveness On Tap
For Molson Coors, creative effectiveness is about more than just generating buzz; ad creative needs to boost sales and improve brand health. Who cares how funny or award-winning a piece of creative is if it’s not helping sell beer, said Sofia Colucci, North America CMO of Molson Coors, speaking at the Marketecture Live event in […]
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AdExchanger Talks
Healthy Growth In The Age Of AI
Mary Beech, chief growth officer at health-and-wellness brand Thorne, shares how she’s turning marketing into a growth engine amid AI-driven discovery and chatbots that get loose with the facts.
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The Boring Infrastructure That Could Make Agentic AI Happen For Ad Tech
For all the talk about AI transforming marketing, many brands still wait weeks just to push a single audience from a CRM into paid media – a lag that’s hard to square with the rise of autonomous AI agents. “But that’s actually pretty normal in the industry,” said Rio Longacre, a partner and global ad […]
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Marketers
Behind NYT’s First Foray Into In-Game Advertising
Crossplay is NYT’s first two-player game, and marks the first time that users will see ads within the game experience itself.
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AdExplainer
Understanding MCP, The ‘Universal Adapter’ For AI In Advertising
If there are two things ad tech isn’t short on, it’s acronyms and, more recently, AI product demos. But MCP – short for Model Context Protocol – is more than another TLA (sorry, three-letter acronym) or AI buzzword. Metaphorically speaking, it’s plumbing for AI: the piping that lets large language models connect to other software […]
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AI-Driven Software Startup Mega Raises $11.5 Million In Funding To Help SMBs Drive Sales
Mega’s software tools aim to take some of the work out of the user’s hands by automating brand’s strategy development, execution and reporting.
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Data-Driven Thinking
The Privacy ‘Zealots’ Were Right: Ad Tech’s Infrastructure Was Always A Risk
I’ve been saying for years that addressable advertising was a strategic mistake. Not because targeting shouldn’t exist, but because building an ecosystem dependent on granular identity, location trails and behavioral signals was always going to create exposure we couldn’t fully control. And if we’re being honest, the precision targeting story was oversold anyway. The industry […]
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CTV Roundup
Paramount Skydance Is Trying To Buy WBD. Now What?
Late last week, Netflix walked away from plans to acquire Warner Bros., clearing the way for Paramount Skydance to scoop up the whole company with its hostile takeover bid. But if his merger really does happen, what would it mean on a practical level for the TV advertising industry writ large?
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