Year: 2025
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AI
The Truth About AI Video Yield: What Media Publishers, Brands And Ad Ops Professionals Must Know Before Scaling
Yield, as it relates to AI video, describes the percentage of generated videos that are immediately usable—meeting the standards for accuracy, brand consistency, compliance and creative impact.
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AdExchanger Talks
HouseFresh Clears The Air On Google’s Changing Search Experience
Publishers can no longer rely on steady search traffic thanks to zero-click AI chatbots and near-constant discovery algorithm changes made by Big Tech gatekeepers. So what comes next? That’s the billion-dollar question facing premium and longtail publishers alike. But pubs are operating under a cloud of confusion caused by outdated SEO strategies and a lack […]
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Marketers
The Startup Trying To Automate The Ad Platform Reconciliation And Refund Mess
Walled garden platform advertisers may not know where their ads were served or who they targeted, and have no log files to boot, but they paid for those ads all the same. And they may have enough info to claim a refund. That’s the idea behind the startup Vaudit, founded last year by Mike Hahn, […]
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AI
Sorry, LLMs – Congress Might Make It A Whole Lot Harder To Train On Copyrighted Content
AI bots are hungry. They’re scraping information found on passports and credit cards and training on novels without authors’ consent. Even fanfiction has been used to train some (presumably quite nerdy) bots. But a bill proposed in the Senate a few weeks ago could change that.
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B-to-C Events
The Brief: Dive-In Theaters and Kidney Passes
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover Kidney Passes, Bites for Bytes and an experiential Dive-In Theater.
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Digital & Technology
Podcast Perfection: Top Tips for Great Audio and Video Quality
Learn how to be a great podcast guest on video and audio with Christine Baratta, Director of The Situation Room Studios and Editorial Content at the Global Situation Room.
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AI
Keep Your Audiences Coming Back for More
From Apartment Therapy’s sponsor-backed tools to MotorTrend’s interactive awards and Digital Trends’ AI gamification, publishers are finding fresh ways to keep audiences engaged. Here’s how they’re turning stickiness into loyalty—and loyalty into revenue.
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Data-Driven Thinking
The Guardrails Are Down: It’s Time For Advertisers To Rethink Social Targeting
Most of us don’t realize how much control we’ve already given up. With industry red flag reports now published regularly, we’re forced to confront the hard truth that control and transparency are further away than we thought. At the same time, social platforms have shifted their content moderation approaches, with most of them embracing a […]
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AI
Olyzon.tv Sees Through The CTV Chaos Using Contextual AI
When Jules Minvielle, co-founder and CEO of Olyzon.tv, launched his third ad tech startup, CTV’s rise and AI’s rewriting of ad ops were too significant to ignore, and he built it to converge the two.
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Brands on Fire
Brands on Fire: Manscaped CMO Shares Strategy Behind ‘Send Face Pics Instead’ Campaign
Manscaped CMO Marcelo Kertész discusses the campaign inspiration, brand evolution, target market, strategic use of humor and his approach to creator-led content.