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AI
AI Bots Are Now Your Colleagues, Thanks To Optimizely’s Latest Launch
The phrase “AI is everywhere” is becoming truer every day. It’s in NYC subway ads. It’s in daily workflows and embedded into Slack channels. And now, it’s in the employee org chart. On Monday, AI marketing platform Optimizely announced the launch of Virtual Teammates, which are exactly what they sound like: AI personas, each with […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
Google’s Bidding Change Proves Agentic Advertising Has An Agency Problem
Google Ads recently changed how target-based bidding behaves on budget-limited campaigns. The algorithm now bids more aggressively to track closer to whatever target ROAS or CPA you’ve set, regardless of historical performance. Google flagged the change in advance and was transparent about the expected outcome: a campaign with a $10 target CPA that has been […]
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The Big Story
There’s A Meta Diaspora Building The Fastest-Growing Ad Platforms
The great Meta migration is in full swing. Ex-Meta employees are, filling the ranks at Open AI, TikTok, Amazon Ads and Roku and bringing their expertise with them.
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CTV Roundup
How Reach TV Brings Streaming And Advertising To America’s Airports
If you’ve ever killed time at an airport staring up at the TV mounted to the wall by your gate, then you’ve been part of Reach TV’s audience.
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Gradial Is Ready To Unify The Marketing Workflow With Its AI Harness
When ChatGPT launched in late 2022, Doug Tallmadge, who was then an engineer at SpaceX, began to develop a deeper understanding of what AI was capable of. He envisioned an AI platform where all the different parts of a workflow would come together. By early 2023, Gradial, an AI startup focused on marketing operations, was […]
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CTV Roundup
NBCU’s Streaming Strategy Involves Revisiting The Cable Playbook
In the modern streaming landscape, everything old is new again. At least that’s the case for NBCUniversal, which is trying to bring back bundled distribution deals and appointment viewing.
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AdExchanger Talks
Programmatic Gets An Agentic Brain
For all the talk about efficiency in programmatic, the industry still spends an awful lot of money on impressions that don’t really matter. A big part of the problem is how the buy side defines “efficiency,” argues Scott Ensign, chief strategy officer at indie media agency Butler/Till, on this week’s episode of AdExchanger Talks. The […]
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AdExchanger Announces Finalists for the 2026 AdExchanger Awards
New York, NY (August 25, 2026) — AdExchanger, the leading voice in data-driven advertising and marketing, today announced the finalists for the 2026 AdExchanger Awards, recognizing the organizations, technologies and leaders driving measurable impact across advertising, media and ad tech. Selected by an independent panel of senior industry practitioners, this year’s finalists represent the companies […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
Marketers, The Free Token Lunch Is Over. Is Your Stack Ready?
Anthropic just dropped Claude Sonnet 5, reigniting a broader debate about how AI should be priced. Some argue that published token rates no longer tell the full economic story because changes in token consumption and model behavior, such as the use of reasoning tokens, can materially affect real-world costs. Meanwhile, other alternatives like Fable 5 […]
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The Big Story
Bridging The World Of TV And Ad Tech
Senior editors Victoria McNally and Alyssa Boyle chat about why ad tech insiders should learn more about the larger TV media industry (via our sister brand Cynopsis!), and what’s new in the world of home screen ads.
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