Allison Schiff
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Marketers
US Bank Is Using Synthetic Audiences To Generate Real Customer Insights
The scene: Sitting on a large wicker sofa 30 feet from the Mediterranean Sea drinking Perrier in the Riviera sunshine and talking to the chief marketing officer of a bank about generative AI, synthetic audiences and creative optimization. That’s how one rolls in Cannes. But rolling back the clock to 2023, which is when Michael […]
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AdExchanger Talks
Spilling The Rosé In Cannes, With TikTok’s Monetization Chief
Despite ongoing uncertainty over TikTok’s fate in the US – the potential ban just got extended for the third time – advertisers aren’t concerned, according to TikTok’s David Kaufman. On this episode, recorded live from Cannes, Kaufman, who oversees product development, marketing and operations for TikTok’s ad platform, says it’s pretty much been business as usual for buyers.
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The Indy Innovates With AI
The best thing publishers can do with generative AI is experiment with it. If journalists don’t decide the best use of AI in journalism, then AI firms will decide for them, says Christian Broughton, CEO of The Independent, on this week’s episode of AdExchanger Talks. “Do you want AI firms to just be dictating how […]
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The Next Level Of Niche, With Puck’s New CRO
Forget the well-worn narrative that digital media publishers are always on their back foot, says Liz Gough, the co-founder and newly minted CRO of Puck. In a world of social media soundbites, Puck is proving that there’s a place for long-form, in-depth, dishy journalism.
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Maybe Nielsen Is The Alternative Currency
The alternative currency bucket could use a rebrand. That referential and somewhat deferential phraseology – a reference to Nielsen – drives Peter Liguori, VideoAmp’s executive chairman, a little nuts. It stems, he argues, from the “absurd notion” that the TV industry “has almost 100% of its eggs in one basket.”
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Marketers
How This Investment App Is Adapting Its Growth Strategy To Deal With Market Volatility
What’s it like managing user acquisition for a consumer-facing investment and financial planning app during an ongoing trade war? A little tricky. Markets are turbulent, trade policies are unpredictable, and retail investors are trying their best to navigate it all. But Betterment’s customers “have largely stayed the course,” says CMO Kim Rosenblum, who oversees the […]
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Context(ual) Switching, With Viant CEO Tim Vanderhook
Viant is on an M&A tear, with two acquisitions – IRIS.TV followed by lockr – in less than six months. Although the rationale behind these deals might be obvious to ad tech insiders, Wall Street investors speak a different language, one that Viant CEO Tim Vanderhook has become fluent in as the leader of a publicly traded company.
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Online Advertising
The Jay Friedman ‘Exit’ Interview (It’s Zesty)
If there’s one buzzword Jay Friedman would pay money to never hear again, it’s “brand safety.” Technically, that’s a buzz phrase, but fair enough. Not that brand safety isn’t important; it is, said Friedman, who stepped down as CEO of digital marketing services agency Goodway Group earlier this month, handing the reins to Chief Growth […]
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Can LinkedIn Become A B2B Streaming Hub?
Over the past few years, LinkedIn has been investing in video like nobody’s business. But there were a few hiccups in its evolution from a desktop display business to a mobile-first, video-centric platform. Remember LinkedIn’s short-lived attempt at short-form ephemeral video? LinkedIn launched its version of Stories in 2020 and shut it down the following […]
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Online Advertising
Why It Might Be Time To Rebrand The Open Web
The open web is dead; long live the open web. It’s healthy; it’s full of opportunity; it’s doomed; it’s a mess. Also, what even is the open web, and do consumers care about the definition? This is the sort of inside baseball stuff that ad tech CEOs and founders somehow still continue to debate when […]
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