Joanna Gerber, Author at Chief Marketer

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AI Is Spreading Inaccurate Information About Brands. This Tool Can Help Fix That

There’s an old adage that all press is good press – but, as pretty much any marketer can tell you, that isn’t always true. As more consumers turn to AI for conducting product research, brands need to pay attention to not just when they’re showing up in the results but how. Sentiment and accuracy should […]

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Attention Gets A Lot Of Attention. But What About Measuring Brand Recognition?

Getting attention is one thing. Knowing how much of it an ad needs to drive brand recognition is something else entirely. Attention intelligence platform xpln.ai is making it its business to know the difference. The startup launched in 2022 with two core products, CEO and Co-Founder Fabien Magalon told AdExchanger: an attention measurement solution that […]

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This New Tool Is Built On Historical Data To Predict Marketers’ Future Performance

Hindsight is 20/20. But using hindsight to inform your future plans means better foresight, too. That’s the idea behind Blueprint, a campaign-planning tool built on over a decade of past campaign data. Strategus, the CTV-focused managed service provider, announced the launch of Blueprint on Tuesday. There are too many “disparate systems that sit alone” across […]

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How This Disaster Relief Nonprofit Tapped First-Party Data To Reach Donors Year-Round

No matter the season or what’s in the news, there are always people in need of medical resources. But nonprofits that provide those resources receive most of their donations during moments of increased public attention, such as natural disasters. Once the public attention wanes, said Tony Morain, VP of communications at humanitarian aid organization Direct […]

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Large Language Models Are Overkill For Some Marketing Tasks. Enter The Small Language Model

It’s no secret that large language models (LLMs) have gotten exorbitantly expensive. Companies are starting to limit their employees’ AI usage to save money; OpenAI has even discussed lowering the cost of tokens to retain financially anxious customers. But you know what’s cheaper than a large language model? A small language model. AI company ZeroGPU […]

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The Agentic Media Buying Platform That Says The Less AI, The Better

Everywhere you look, a new agentic measurement tool seems to have sprung up. Agentic execution layers, on the other hand, are harder to come by, according to Nathan Venezia, founder of Concord. (As you may have guessed, Concord, which is based in France, is a platform for agentic media executions.) “I’m not going to say […]

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Monks Has A New Head Of Data And Media

Gila Wilensky knows the secret sauce behind good marketing – you could even say she’s a chef of sorts, having spent the past six years working on business growth within WPP, most recently as its chief solutions officer for North America. But it was time for a change. On Monday, Monks, the digital arm of […]

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How A New MCP Is Helping Advertisers Bet Bigger On YouTube

YouTube doesn’t have an official MCP server, so third parties have had to take matters into their own hands. On Wednesday, video advertising platform Pixability joined the conversation with the launch of a Model Context Protocol-enabled agent built specifically for YouTube ads that allows clients to integrate Pixability’s proprietary YouTube intelligence and data into their […]

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The AI Tool That’s Giving Landlords A Leg Up On Zillow

In the wise words of Spider-Man, with great power comes great responsibility. Nowhere is this more true, perhaps, than in the tech industry. In just a couple of years, consumers have become “AI native,” said Anda Gansca, CEO and co-founder of customer journey intelligence platform Knotch. This means that consumers have higher standards for the […]

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This AI ‘Brain’ Wants To Get Rid Of The Grunt Work In Creative Campaigns

Agentic systems and the scarecrow from “The Wizard of Oz” have more in common than you might think: They’re both in dire need of a brain. At least, Innovid thinks so. Last year, Mediaocean-owned Innovid, which, these days, describes itself as an omnichannel ad platform, came out with an orchestration layer to connect fragmented data […]

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