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POSSIBLE 2026: Can AI Help Agencies Finally Break Down Those Silos?

At POSSIBLE 2026, conversations about AI went beyond the typical talking points about how much time and money AI can save. AdExchanger had one of those deeper discussions about AI with Domenic Venuto, the indie agency Horizon Media’s chief product and data officer.

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Zefr Builds A New Front Door For YouTube Buys

Ad tech doesn’t suffer from a shortage of acronyms – but it does suffer from fragmented workflows. Brand suitability provider Zefr is trying to fix some of that fragmentation by using Model Context Protocol (MCP) as the plumbing that connects AI agents to advertiser data and tools, together with an Advertising Context Protocol (AdCP) layer […]

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Google Touts Its AI Ad Tech Adoption And New AI Max Features

The past year has been momentous for AI search engine ads. That’s partly due to ChatGPT’s foray into advertising. But the big AI search ad platform in action right now is Google, which, on Thursday, announced new features and ad types for AI Max, its AI-based bidding product for search and shopping or sponsored product […]

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Alphabet Exceeds $100 Billion In Q1 And Its Profits Almost Doubled

Wall Street investors know that, in the advertising business, Q1 is generally the poorest-performing period of the year. And this is a particularly poor macro-economic time. Alphabet is operating in a different reality. Or so it would seem while listening to the company’s Q1 earnings, which were released on Wednesday. Alphabet earned $109.9 billion in […]

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The Measurement Gap in B2B Advertising

Campaign Sophistication Is Increasing, but Performance Visibility Remains Limited B2B advertising is undergoing a major transformation. Campaigns now span multiple channels, target entire buying committees, and draw on richer audience data than ever before. Yet most marketers are still struggling to answer a fundamental question: are these investments actually working? In this exclusive research […]

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Supplement Brand Ritual Taps Chord To Help Understand Its Historical Data

The tech stacks brands were using 10 years ago probably aren’t suited for today’s fragmented ecosystem, where advertisers are struggling to keep track of and unify the data they’ve accrued over years. As supplement brand Ritual recently expanded into wholesale and third-party vendor sales, it decided it was time to “reevaluate” its tech stack to […]

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Data-Driven Thinking

Stop Scaling Mediocre Ads: How AI Can Actually Elevate Performance Marketing

In a largely creative industry like advertising, performance marketing can seem a bit soulless. Algorithms, tracking and optimization can help us reach targets quicker and more efficiently. But the creative used in performance campaigns can often look or feel … off. When there are metrics to hit and placements to fill, creative often takes a […]

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Rakuten And Impact.com Forge A New Alliance That Resets The Affiliate Industry

The two longest-standing names in the affiliate and partnership marketing category, Rakuten and Impact.com, have decided to stop fighting each other and will instead fight together. Rakuten is best-known for its consumer retail and rewards apps, but its competed with Impact as early affiliate networks platforms for ecommerce companies and other direct advertisers to connect […]

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What A Lead Generation Conference Taught Me About Fixing Ad Ops

I didn’t expect to walk into a lead generation and customer acquisition-focused event and come out thinking about ad ops. But that’s exactly what happened when I traveled to Las Vegas for Leadscon last week. Lead gen and programmatic tend to live in different corners of the ecosystem. Lead gen is obsessed with calls and […]

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AdMarketplace Is Piloting Performance Ads In AI Chat

AI chat is starting to look more and more like a media channel, which means someone’s gotta figure out the ad model. Although chatbot conversations are loaded with commercial intent – ChatGPT knows it – there’s still no clear playbook for monetizing those interactions without messing with the user experience. Search advertising specialist adMarketplace is one of […]

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