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CTV Roundup
Why CTV Won’t Fall Into The Same Commoditization Trap As The Open Internet Did
At AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO event in Las Vegas this week, our executive editor, Sarah Sluis, asked a panel of experts from NBCUniversal, Roku and Tubi if programmatic buying will inevitably lead to a repeat on CTV of what happened with digital media publishers.
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Inside the Buy Side
What VaynerMedia’s John Terrana Wants You to Understand About Attention
At POSSIBLE 2025, VaynerMedia’s John Terrana talked to AdMonsters about what most media teams get wrong about attention—and what it really takes to build performance-driven plans that keep up with culture.
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B-to-B Events
2025 Upfronts: Disney Works its Magic with Storytelling and Supreme Star Power
If you ask Disney Advertising, static Upfronts are in the rearview mirror where they belong. Over the last decade, the media presentations have evolved from glorified business meetings to all-encompassing brand immersions, and on May 13 at New York’s Javits Center, the company did its part to raise the experiential bar. From the stage to […]
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B-to-C Events
Q&A: Dating App Yuzu Builds Community with an Event-driven Campaign for AAPI Month
A trend rising among several dating apps of late is taking meetups offline by hosting in-person events for users to connect outside of the endless digital swirl of swipes, likes and chats that often go nowhere. So when Yuzu, Match Group’s new dating and social app for the Asian community, launched in January 2024, Cindy […]
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The Big Story
Prog IO Live: AI, But With A Human Gut Check
Recorded live on the Programmatic IO stage in Las Vegas, the editorial team recaps the trends that dominated our conference: marketers adopting AI and finding truth through measurement.
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Tech & AI
Retailers invest in AI with few gains to the customer experience
A new survey finds that most U.S. ecommerce companies rate their artificial intelligence ROI as good, even if the impact today is minimal. About a quarter of U.S. ecommerce companies that have invested in artificial intelligence say it has made a “slight improvement” to their customers’ digital experience. Yet, 97% say that this ROI is […]
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Marketers
OMD Shares Its Alternative ID Strategy At AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO
The number of alternative IDs in the market is daunting. But OMD has a philosophy for determining which IDs will work best for brands’ needs. Emily Proctor, the ad agency’s executive director of data and technology solutions, shared that philosophy at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO in Las Vegas on Tuesday. It boils down to this: “Test, […]
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Corporate Social Responsibility
News Outlets Respond to AI-Generated Summer Reading List Insert
The Chicago Sun Times and Philadelphia Inquirer did not help boost any new media trust when caught in an AI content controversy.
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Digital & Technology
Google I/O Spells Uh-Oh for Search
This week at Google I/O, the annual Google developers’ conference, the tech giant made a bold statement: AI is no longer an experiment in search—it IS search.
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Branding/Marketing
Learning About Crisis From Sports Controversies
Sports crisis communications experts, Jim Rocco and Thom Weidlich, decided to co-author the recently-released “Sports Crisis Communications: Cases and Controversy.”
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