Allison Schiff, Author at Chief Marketer

Infillion Acquires Foursquare, Adding More Location Data To Its Ever-Growing Ad Tech Stack

Infillion checked in with its latest acquisition on Friday: Foursquare. Apparently, if there’s a strategically interesting or distressed ad tech asset on the market, Infillion will find it. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Rob Emrich, Infillion’s CEO, told Axios, which broke the news, that it will remain an “active acquirer” as clients increasingly […]

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Information Quality Is What Wins In The AI Era

In the AI era, according to Tim Frank, the man in charge of AI monetization at Microsoft, “information is the new bid.”

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Programmatic Gets An Agentic Brain

People love pontificating about programmatic efficiency – and yet the industry continues to spend an awful lot of money on impressions that don’t really matter. A big part of the problem is how the buy side defines “efficiency,” argues Scott Ensign, chief strategy officer at indie media agency Butler/Till, on this week’s episode of AdExchanger […]

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Google’s Mass Arbitration Problem

Thousands of advertisers are taking Google to arbitration over alleged ad overpayments. Attorney Ashley Keller explains the legal strategy and what a positive outcome could mean for claimants.

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Murder Your Thirst And Measure Everything

Liquid Death is all jokes and dark humor on the surface, but the canned water brand’s chief media and digital commerce officer, Benoit Vatere, takes measurement deadly seriously. He’s tackling one of the gnarliest problems in CPG: proving that media actually moves product off the shelves.

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‘Models Built For Me’

Chalice AI’s COO and co-founder, Ali Manning, explains how the AI startup – don’t call it a custom algorithm company – is helping brands like Bayer use advertiser-specific bidding models to drive real outcomes as opposed to poor proxies.

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The Hardest KPI In Advertising

Marketing consumer products comes with plenty of challenges. But just try selling a political candidate in a hyper-polarized, 24-hour news environment, says Mark Jablonowski, CEO of DSPolitical, a political ad platform that caters to Democrats and progressive causes.

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Forget The Shiny Objects And Focus On Fundamentals

Sharona Sankar-King, Havas Media North America’s chief data and product officer, on why marketers should stop chasing shiny AI toys and get serious about the fundamentals, including truly understanding the customer and only collecting data that’s “fit for purpose.”

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How Georgia-Pacific Rolled Out Its Own Programmatic Media Team

You don’t need an in-house marketing mix model to know that people buy toilet paper. But you do if you want to see firsthand which parts of your media plan are working and which deserve to get flushed. At Georgia-Pacific, one of the leading global manufacturers of tissue, pulp, toilet paper and packaging products, Javier […]

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Convincing Cat Parents To Buy A $600 Litter Box

Most brands worry about competitors. Whisker is worried about complacency, says CMO Hew Loyd – specifically, the millions of cat owners who have decided that scooping an open box of poop in their home is just one of life’s little chores.

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