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Why Most Brands Are Flying Blind Across Media and Their Competitive Landscape
Marketing budgets are rising. Confidence in measurement isn’t. Many brands still evaluate TV, digital, social, and local markets in silos, relying on disconnected KPIs that may optimize performance within individual channels—but fail to reveal what’s actually driving growth across the broader media mix. The bigger challenge? Your competitors. While you’re focused on internal dashboards, competitors […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
Why Agentic Measurement Will Reprice The Ad Market
Every era of advertising is defined by what its reporting layer cannot see. In the 1960s, the industry was defined by the Nielsen diary. Households recorded their viewing on paper and mailed it back. Advertisers and broadcasters waited weeks for the data. Nielsen’s diary wasn’t replaced because it was wrong, but because it was slow. […]
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AI
How Much Are Bots Costing You? IAB Tech Lab Wants Content Owners To Find Out
The bots are hungry for content. The content owners are hungry for monetization. And the IAB Tech Lab is working on new recommendations that will – hopefully – help everyone get fed. On Wednesday, the Tech Lab released its guidance for bot management strategies, which is open for public comment until June 26. The purpose […]
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Marketers
Baby Monitor Brand Owlet Cut Back On Search – And Sales Didn’t Drop
Owlet’s target customer isn’t in market for very long. The publicly traded baby tech company is best known for its smart “sock,” a wearable that wraps around an infant’s foot to track heart rate, oxygen levels, movement and sleep, and then sends alerts to a parent’s phone. Owlet also sells a Wi-Fi baby monitor and […]
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AdExchanger Talks
How ‘Wrapped’ Insights Become Audience Segments
Has Spotify ever described your musical taste as “yacht rock coastal grandmother” or “divorced dad hipster”? Even if Spotify’s very specific-sounding labels don’t exactly describe who you are, they probably accurately capture the vibe of your listening habits – and help explain why its daily personalized playlists and its annual Wrapped listening summaries are so […]
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Marketers
Pirated Sports Streams Are Warping TV’s Most Important Ratings
Advertisers love live sports. But good luck measuring that investment. Although tides of ad revenue flow based on the ratings of certain tentpole TV events, a new crop of scammers now operate illicit sports livestreaming rings, and there’s almost nothing broadcasters can do about it. According to a new report released Tuesday by ad tech […]
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CTV Roundup
AI Is Redefining Premium Content – Which May Not Be A Good Thing
At AdExchanger’s Programmatic AI conference, media experts discussed how the rise of AI-generated content is changing the industry’s understanding of “premium” content.
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Marketers
Google Wants To Do Your Shopping For You At GML This Year
This week I am virtually reporting on the goings-on at Mountain Village, California, where Google is hosting its Google Marketing Live event. I happened to be in Las Vegas for AdExchanger’s Programmatic AI show. I much regret not being able to hop over to the Sweets & Snacks Expo, also happening in Vegas right now. […]
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AI
AI Needs Humans In The Lead, Not Just In The Loop, Says JPMorgan Chase Programmatic Lead
Hot take: Sometimes, having more guardrails isn’t a limitation. Instead, the added responsibilities can actually make automation easier, according to Melissa Bonnick, EVP, head of programmatic for JPMorgan Chase. As a financial services company, JPMorgan Chase is beholden to stricter rules than brands in most other verticals. But those restrictions make it easy to communicate […]
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The Big Story
Prog AI Live: AI’s Slippery Slop
Recorded live in Las Vegas at Prog AI, the AdExchanger team tackles a tricky question: As AI floods the feed with chaotic, addictive content and people engage with it, what does “premium” even mean anymore?
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