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First-Party Data Is About More Than Retargeting And Audience Suppression

Brands have spent years and serious money building a direct understanding of their customers within analytics platforms, CDPs, loyalty programs, consent frameworks and CRM systems. And yet, when it comes time to make a media buy, they still hand the process over to algorithms shaped by someone else’s data. In 2011, AdExchanger asked me to […]

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Google’s Meridian And Meta’s Robyn: A Gift To Measurement Or Trojan Horses?

Google and Meta are quietly rewriting the rules of ad measurement, and they’re doing it with open-source marketing mix modeling (MMM) tools that many marketers don’t even realize they’re using. MMM is a method for measuring the relative performance of different marketing channels. It fell out of favor because it takes a long time and […]

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AI Is Spreading Inaccurate Information About Brands. This Tool Can Help Fix That

There’s an old adage that all press is good press – but, as pretty much any marketer can tell you, that isn’t always true. As more consumers turn to AI for conducting product research, brands need to pay attention to not just when they’re showing up in the results but how. Sentiment and accuracy should […]

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Q2 2026 Was The Quarter AI Media Started To Scale

Advertising in AI-native destinations and experiences is already starting to look less like a series of experiments and more like an emerging market. Three months ago, I argued that AI platforms had started acting like media companies. Now, the conversation has already changed. It wasn’t simply that OpenAI introduced ads in ChatGPT and advertisers started […]

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This K-Beauty Brand Is Collapsing The Marketing Funnel To Grow Its US Customer Base

The “K” in “K-beauty” stands for “Korean.” But it should also stand for “kaboom” because Korean beauty product sales are exploding internationally, especially in the US market. America is already the No. 1 foreign importer of South Korean cosmetics. And the K-beauty boom is just beginning. While K-beauty is expected to generate over 7% revenue […]

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The Open Web Is Shifting From An Audience Economy To A Context Economy

The open web is moving beyond identity-based systems built around audience data to context systems that understand who a person is, where they are, what surrounds them and what’s happening right now. We already know what this next stage of open web ad tech will look like. At my daughter’s recent dance studio gala, a […]

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Cannes-terview: Why Nespresso Prefers Unfiltered Conversations

What does espresso have to do with running clubs? More than you’d think. Turns out, people who run at 6 am need something to get them out the door, and Nespresso wants to be that thing. But rather than building its own run clubs, Nespresso has been looking to embed itself in communities where coffee […]

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Can Content Drive Performance?

From avoiding AI slop to achieving show-level transparency on a CTV buy, we talk through how buyers are supercharging performance by focusing on the content where they place their ads.

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Attention Gets A Lot Of Attention. But What About Measuring Brand Recognition?

Getting attention is one thing. Knowing how much of it an ad needs to drive brand recognition is something else entirely. Attention intelligence platform xpln.ai is making it its business to know the difference. The startup launched in 2022 with two core products, CEO and Co-Founder Fabien Magalon told AdExchanger: an attention measurement solution that […]

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Reckitt’s Digital Reckoning

You wouldn’t accept paying for a Big Mac and getting a single chicken nugget. But that’s essentially what a lot of marketers are doing with their digital ad budgets, says Reckitt’s Sameer Amin, on this week’s episode of AdExchanger Talks recorded live in Cannes.

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