Ad Tech
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Data-Driven Thinking
How To Tell If An AI Vendor Will Still Matter In Two Years
Remember the Cinnamon Challenge, when people filmed themselves trying to swallow a spoonful of ground cinnamon in under a minute? For a short window in the early 2010s, it was everywhere – until it was gone. Now, it’s mostly remembered as one of those “What were we doing?” internet moments. And don’t get me started […]
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AdExchanger Talks
Why The Economist Is An AI Outlier
The Economist is charting its own course in the age of AI, says Nada Arnot, the 182-year-old publication’s EVP of marketing. It’s steering clear of licensing deals and lawsuits and partnering with Claude on its own terms.
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Data-Driven Thinking
AI Is Bringing MFA To Social Media. Here’s How Advertisers Can Avoid It
AI has changed content creation overnight. What once required time, skill or a production budget can now be spun up in seconds. That’s led to an explosion of low-quality, made-for-advertising (MFA) content, not just across obscure websites but on social platforms like TikTok, YouTube and Meta. For years, MFA was a mostly web-based problem: cheap, […]
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Marketers
WPP Raises Its Ad Growth Forecast Thanks To The AI Boom – But That Doesn’t Mean It Will Last
Thanks to mitigated tariff effects and the AI boom, WPP Media’s 2025 ad spend forecast has good news for marketers.
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AI
Criteo Lays Out Its AI Ambitions And How It Might Make Money From LLMs
Hopefully everyone feels good coming out of Thanksgiving and America’s November shopaganza, BFCM, the Cyber Five, or whatever you call it. May your Q5’s be merry and bright and full of attributable sales. Now back to business. Which is to say, Criteo’s entrance to the AI arena. On Tuesday, Criteo debuted new AI tech and […]
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The Big Story
The Incredibly High Stakes Of Black Friday
Consumer spending on Black Friday Cyber Monday was up 7%. But prices are high, and the most affluent customers are doing the most spending in the US. Plus: the challenges faced by the ad buyers managing campaigns on Meta during Glitchmas.
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CTV Roundup
Why Hyper-Local Planning Agency Novus Media Likes Buying CTV Programmatically
Is it too soon to start thinking about New Year’s resolutions? Since taking on AdExchanger’s CTV beat at the beginning of March, I’ve learned a lot about the industry from the perspectives of publishers, measurement companies, platforms and even a few brands. So next year, to round out my education, I’m setting a goal for […]
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Marketers
New Social Media Platform Fizz Gives Brands A Crash Course In Marketing To College Students
The people who know how best to market to college students are other college students – and that’s doubly true on a social media platform whose entire user base is college students. Teddy Solomon and Ashton Cofer dropped out of Stanford to focus full time on Fizz, an (optionally) anonymous social media platform they co-founded in […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
Broadsign’s Big Move Isn’t The Endgame. It’s The Opening Gambit
Broadsign’s acquisition of Place Exchange last week is a defining moment for programmatic out-of-home (OOH). But it is not the endgame; it is merely the setup. The OOH stack is being rebuilt from the inside out. The final owner is not yet in the room. When you look at the sequence of recent deals, the […]
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AdExchanger Talks
From Hype To Hyperscale In AI
AI hype is everywhere, but Moloco CEO Ikkjin Ahn says the real winners in ad tech will be those who can move beyond flashy demos and harness AI at true hyperscale.
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