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Shopify Wades Deeper Into Advertising, But Not Ad Tech
Shopify is slowly but surely making its way into the ads business. An earlier step in that journey was the hiring of Samir Pradhan as VP of product for merchant marketing in November 2025. There is no product called “Merchant Marketing,” as Pradhan told AdExchanger. But merchant marketing is the way the company thinks about […]
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The Agentic Media Buying Platform That Says The Less AI, The Better
Everywhere you look, a new agentic measurement tool seems to have sprung up. Agentic execution layers, on the other hand, are harder to come by, according to Nathan Venezia, founder of Concord. (As you may have guessed, Concord, which is based in France, is a platform for agentic media executions.) “I’m not going to say […]
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AdExchanger Talks
Rethinking Vitamin Marketing, With Barrière
Cleo Davis-Urman, CEO and co-founder of wearable vitamin brand Barrière, talks word-of-mouth, measurement, retail media and what it takes to build a new category around patches instead of pills.
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At Its First-Ever Cannes, OpenAI Says ‘We Are Clearly In The Advertising Business Now’
OpenAI didn’t make its Cannes Lions debut from a Croisette rooftop or in a branded beach club. Instead, the company summoned a small group of reporters late Monday morning to a semi-secluded outdoor patio located a roughly 15-minute walk from the festival’s main center of gravity. It was a rather sedate way to unveil what […]
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Monks Has A New Head Of Data And Media
Gila Wilensky knows the secret sauce behind good marketing – you could even say she’s a chef of sorts, having spent the past six years working on business growth within WPP, most recently as its chief solutions officer for North America. But it was time for a change. On Monday, Monks, the digital arm of […]
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CTV Roundup
Inside The Trade Desk’s Pitch For Ventura TV OS
The Trade Desk is muscling its way into the TV operating system business with its Ventura OS – but the real story is what TTD’s ambitions reveal about conflicts of interest within the industry and the inherent mismatch between consumer and advertiser needs.
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Mergers And Operating Systems Are Reshaping TV Ads
Linear TV is grabbing attention once again. This time as the broadcast and streaming media worlds are being tied together by major M&A deals. There’s the recent news of Fox’s $22 billion acquisition of Roku and Paramount’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery (will it be PWBD? Or another rebrand? TV Land waits on tenterhooks), which […]
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How A New MCP Is Helping Advertisers Bet Bigger On YouTube
YouTube doesn’t have an official MCP server, so third parties have had to take matters into their own hands. On Wednesday, video advertising platform Pixability joined the conversation with the launch of a Model Context Protocol-enabled agent built specifically for YouTube ads that allows clients to integrate Pixability’s proprietary YouTube intelligence and data into their […]
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The Trade Desk Forms A Travel And Hospitality Media Network
It’s a bird; it’s a plane; it’s a network of travel media networks. On Wednesday, The Trade Desk expanded its relationships with a host of travel, hospitality and mobility-focused commerce media partners, including Uber Advertising, Booking.com, United Airline’s Kinective Media and MARRIOTT MEDIA. (That’s how it’s branded, and Marriott refers to it as “Riot Media.”) […]
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The AI Tool That’s Giving Landlords A Leg Up On Zillow
In the wise words of Spider-Man, with great power comes great responsibility. Nowhere is this more true, perhaps, than in the tech industry. In just a couple of years, consumers have become “AI native,” said Anda Gansca, CEO and co-founder of customer journey intelligence platform Knotch. This means that consumers have higher standards for the […]
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