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Allison Schiff

  • Shifting Gears, With The CMO Of Genesis Motor America

    As the newly appointed CMO of Genesis Motor America, it’s Amy Marentic’s job to raise awareness for the luxury auto brand, which is fighting for market share against more well-known incumbents in the US market. To do it, she’s analyzing the data and working on a growth strategy to reach a largely untapped demo: women. Plus: Marentic’s unique origin story, from astronaut hopeful to chief marketer.

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  • Addressing Addressability, With ID5 CEO Mathieu Roche

    When Google reversed its decision to deprecate third-party cookies, the first word in ID5 CEO Mathieu Roche’s mind was an expletive. But it doesn’t really matter what happens with cookies on Chrome anymore. “Most of the industry has moved past the notion that cookies were good enough to target and measure advertising on the web,” […]

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  • ROAS? Nah. The Home Depot’s All About ROMO

    Seriously, guys. Enough with the ROAS (return on ad spend) obsession. It’s time for a smarter approach to measurement that focuses on more than short-term outcomes, says Melanie Babcock-Brown, VP of media and monetization for Orange Apron Media, The Home Depot’s retail media network. When retail media took off around five years ago, retailers concentrated […]

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  • The Science (And Art) Of Scaling Native Ads

    Native advertising has been around for a long time. But creating a native ad unit online is way more complicated than a standard programmatic placement, because multiple teams and systems have to compose it on the fly, says Priti Ohri, CEO and co-founder of startup Advertible, which describes itself as “native-as-a-service.”

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  • AI In Ads – And Ads In AI

    Paul Longo, GM of AI in ads at Microsoft Advertising, breaks down what it means to bring ads into conversational experiences and how AI-powered tools are changing the way advertisers work. Plus: Microsoft may be shutting down the Xandr DSP next year, but that doesn’t mean Microsoft is getting out of the ad tech game.

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  • Making Sense of DSP-SSP Convergence

    DSPs are building tools to bypass SSPs, and SSPs are trying to cut out the buy side. But the real question in the noise is whether the technology improves effectiveness, says Kara Puccinelli, chief customer officer at Nexxen, which just so happens to describe itself as an end-to-end platform.

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  • When AI Meets Media Quality

    From one perspective, publishers are up a creek thanks to the rise of generative AI search; the impact on discoverability and traffic is palpable. But that doesn’t mean publishers can’t adapt and find new ways to make money, says Mediavine CRO Amanda Martin.

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  • Your CAPI Cheat Sheet: Understanding Conversion APIs

    Hot: Server-side conversion APIs that send marketing data directly to ad platforms. Not: Traditional browser-based tracking methods like cookies, pixels and scripts. Thanks to privacy regulations and browser restrictions, client-side tracking – as in, collecting and tracking user behavior directly through a browser – has become a heck of a lot harder to do. Enter: Conversion APIs. […]

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  • There’s No Such Thing As An Attribution Easy Button

    There are a lot of misconceptions about ad measurement. Some marketers believe media mix modeling is superior to multi-touch attribution or that it’s possible to pinpoint the exact impact of each marketing touch point on sales. (Neither is true.) But the biggest thing most marketers are wrongheaded about is in thinking there’s a single solution […]

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  • Introducing The Wedding Tech Stack

    Today, David’s Bridal is as much an AI-powered tech company as it is a retailer of wedding apparel and accessories, according to Elina Vilk, president and chief business officer. The company recently unveiled a new digital transformation strategy centered on agentic AI and personalized experiences.

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