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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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  • Adobe Advertising Just Launched Its Own Custom Algorithms Product

    Adobe paid $540 million to buy video DSP TubeMogul in 2016 with plans to build a programmatic advertising powerhouse inside one of the world’s largest marketing clouds. But that promise has gone largely unfulfilled during the 10 years since. Until now, perhaps. Last week, Adobe Advertising announced the general release of its own Custom Algorithms […]

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  • MFA Ad Spend Is Increasing. Is AI Slop To Blame?

    This year, the percentage of ad spend going toward made-for-advertising (MFA) sites went up instead of down for the first time since 2023.

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  • Top Women in Media & Ad Tech

    AdExchanger’s Top Women in Media & Ad Tech Awards honor the full spectrum of leadership in media and advertising technology—from the C-suite to the operators, data scientists and product builders driving results at every level. As the industry transforms, these are the women not just navigating change, but architecting it. Nominations are now open.

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  • This New Tool Is Built On Historical Data To Predict Marketers’ Future Performance

    Hindsight is 20/20. But using hindsight to inform your future plans means better foresight, too. That’s the idea behind Blueprint, a campaign-planning tool built on over a decade of past campaign data. Strategus, the CTV-focused managed service provider, announced the launch of Blueprint on Tuesday. There are too many “disparate systems that sit alone” across […]

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  • Kickbacks Takes An Outsider’s View While Bringing Ads To AI Agents

    Andrew McCalip is a founding engineer at Varda Space Industries, where he oversees the manufacturing of things like hypersonic reentry vehicles and satellite buses (which are the central satellite bodies that carry a payload or instruments, not something that, like, shuttles satellites out to a launch pad). But he’s always had a taste for online […]

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  • Dynamically Inserted Billboards In TV Content: Groundbreaking Or Distracting?

    For some marketers, the billboards that appear in the backgrounds of TV scenes – or heck, even just the blank walls of a building – feel like prime real estate for even more ad placements.

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  • As AI Tools Multiply, Cadent And Google Cloud Make The Case For Connected Advertising Intelligence

    As more brands, agencies, and media companies join in on the AI chorus of “better, faster, smarter,” the teams administering AI tools are singing a dissonant tune — managing a growing stack of AI-powered tools layered across planning, activation, measurement, reporting, and workflow management. It’s a familiar irony to anyone in advertising: Another innovation designed to […]

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