Andrew Byrd, Author at Chief Marketer

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StatSocial’s New AI Tool Digital Twins Is Helping Shepherd To Pressure-Test Audience Insights

Finding the right audience is hard. Finding an audience that barely exists in traditional research panels is even harder. That’s the challenge agencies face when clients want insights into highly specific consumer groups, such as politically independent news subscribers or niche investor communities. Recruiting those audiences can take weeks and cost thousands of dollars, often […]

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AI Is Finally Doing Real Work In Ad Ops (But Only When It Works With Your Existing Tech)

For all the AI-in-ad-ops talk, plenty of publisher teams are still trapped in the grind of pulling GAM reports by hand and trying to reverse engineer why revenue dropped. At Programmatic AI in Las Vegas, Jordan Cauley, who launched a publisher monetization tech consultancy after an eight-plus-year stint as a product lead at Mediavine, made […]

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The Programmatic Auction Is Changing In Real Time – Here’s How

Programmatic advertising has changed a lot in the nearly 20 years since the first RTB ad auction. On the surface, programmatic is just the automated buying and selling of digital ads. Under the hood, there’s a complex, high-speed auction system that decides in milliseconds which ads appear across display, video, CTV, audio, retail and other […]

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What A Lead Generation Conference Taught Me About Fixing Ad Ops

I didn’t expect to walk into a lead generation and customer acquisition-focused event and come out thinking about ad ops. But that’s exactly what happened when I traveled to Las Vegas for Leadscon last week. Lead gen and programmatic tend to live in different corners of the ecosystem. Lead gen is obsessed with calls and […]

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Indie Agency Wpromote Dishes On How It’s Testing New Agentic SSP Tools

Ad agencies have an overwhelming amount of buying tools to choose from. And they’re increasingly relying on AI to focus just on what will help them meet their clients’ needs. Between general-purpose and specialized DSPs, social platforms, CTV environments and direct publisher deals, agencies have to stitch campaigns together across a variety of fragmented systems. […]

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What Does A Beta Test Of A Sell-Side Agent Look Like?

Using machine learning to automate and optimize ads is familiar to publishers. For years, this tech has helped publishers tune floors and serve the best ads behind the scenes. Now, publishers are exploring automation and optimization through agentic AI. Many publishers have identified a similar use case: sales agents who actively make decisions in the […]

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