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B-to-B Events
Field Report: Five Game-Changing Trends from Google Cloud Next 25
A perfect mix of brand and business, Google Cloud’s flagship event, showcasing the transformative power of AI and its practical applications for companies, brought together over 36,000 industry tech professionals, developers, engineers, analysts and industry leaders to Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, April 9-11. The event opened with a keynote where Google Cloud […]
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Online Advertising
Programmatic Leaders Who Testified In The DOJ’s Google Suit Are Vindicated, And Still Not Done
Search back and remember. I know it feels like a million years, but it’s actually just been a couple of weeks since US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that Google has been operating an illegal monopoly in the publisher ad server and ad exchange markets. The 80-year-old Judge Brinkema could be a new figure […]
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Cynsiders
What’s Possible
By E.B. Moss For insights and observations from Miami, go here . A delightful dilemma was choosing between sessions on AI-driven creative strategies to explorations of the evolving streaming landscape, and keynotes with high-profile speakers including Martha Stewart, interviewed by iHeart’s Bob Pittman, and Katie Couric who chatted with Horizon Media Holdings CEO Bill Koenigsberg, […]
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cookies
Cracks in the Ad Stack: Publishers Want Power, Not Just Promises
Publishers aren’t celebrating the Google antitrust ruling. It just confirmed their reality. From floor pricing frustrations to platform lock-in, they’re done waiting for structural change. They’re ready to reclaim control: one lever, one partner, one practice at a time.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Pharma CEO Dismisses Tariffs, Apply to Be Chief Mom Officer, Employees as Influencers Data
This week’s PR Roundup looks at Eli Lilly’s CEO and other pharmaceutical leaders dismissing tariff talk, Thayers encouraging moms of all types to apply to be Chief Mom Officer, and new data showing the overwhelming success of allowing employees to be company influencers.
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The Big Story
The Tariffs And The TV Upfronts
Emarketer is predicting tariffs could lead to a $2.78 billion to $4 billion decline in linear TV upfront spending, but CTV spending will be flat to up. Emarketer analyst Ross Benes unpacks these findings. Plus: At the Possible conference, optimism reins.
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Programming
Mom’s the Word at Hallmark Channel
When it comes to reality TV, motherhood is often portrayed in a harsh or under-respected light.
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Digital & Technology
The Communicator’s Guide to Measuring AI Impact
The past year has revealed a consistent pattern while working alongside communications and marketing teams at major organizations implementing AI tools: the standard metrics just don’t capture what’s really happening.
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Trendwatch
Fat Brain Toys calls out tariff price increases on product pages
The CEO of Fat Brain Toys shares why he’s highlighting its tariff-driven price increases and what’s next. Fat Brain Toys is highlighting the impact of tariffs on its prices to its shoppers. On its product detail pages and shopping cart page, the toy retailer specifically highlights how much it has increased the product’s […]
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Behind the News
REVOLT And Revry Want To Protect Publisher Data, Not Sell It Off
The collaboration with Revry allows marketers to reach REVOLT’s audiences by tapping into the publisher’s first-party data, while ensuring that data ownership and consumer trust remain central.
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