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Ad Tech

  • The Big Story

    Not So Long, Solimar

    Change can be bumpy. From The Trade Desk’s Solimar-to-Kokai transition to Nielsen’s transition to its Big Data + Panel offering, we go inside customers’ challenges with these two transforming platforms.

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  • CTV Roundup

    Why FAST Channels Are So Interested In Courting YouTube Creators

    My YouTube creator obsession has me fascinated by an ongoing trend I’ve noticed in the CTV industry: A lot of companies that produce free ad-supported channels rely on content that already exists on YouTube.

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  • Data-Driven Thinking

    How Vanity Metrics Stole Marketing’s Credibility – And How CMOs Can Get It Back

    Vanity metrics have been a sugar rush for marketers for nearly two decades, but they’re ultimately unsatisfying. Clicks, likes, page views and time-on-site may look impressive on a dashboard or great in a deck, but they rarely correlate to true success where it matters: revenue, growth and long-term business performance. These surface-level metrics give a […]

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  • AdExchanger Talks

    Making Sense of DSP-SSP Convergence

    DSPs are building tools to bypass SSPs and SSPs are trying to cut out the buy side. It’s a dramatic tale, at least by ad tech standards. But the real question in the noise is whether the technology improves advertising effectiveness, says Kara Puccinelli, chief customer officer at Nexxen, on this week’s episode of AdExchanger […]

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  • Marketers

    Digital Culture Group Intros Its AI Tool For Measuring Ad Resonance

    With the pace of online culture and digital media, an advertiser might use a new meme at the beginning of a campaign that already feels outdated before the campaign has run its course. “The speed of culture has outpaced ad tech,” said Crystal Foote, founder and head of partnerships at the ad tech company Digital […]

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  • AdExplainer

    Why You Should Know (And Use) The Marketing Efficiency Ratio Metric

    “In the year of the lord 2025, we do not use ROAS.” That was the position of one agency media buyer during a conversation about the Marketing Efficiency Ratio (MER). The data-driven advertising metric has been around for many years but is now reaching mainstream or at least revered status. That is an exaggeration, of […]

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  • AI

    AI Can Do Your Job Better Than You Can (Well, Actually, It Depends)

    There’s understandable anxiety about generative AI handling tasks that people used to do. But just because someone is using generative AI to churn out marketing copy or creative doesn’t necessarily mean the results are any good. Like any other tool, knowing how to get the most out of a large language model takes time and […]

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  • CTV Roundup

    How Kidoodle.TV Keeps Inappropriate Ads (And Annoying Children’s TV Stars) Out Of Its AVOD Channels

    Into every generation, a universally hated children’s television character is born. This, of course, poses a unique problem in a world of smart TV operating systems and content recommendation engines.

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  • The Big Story

    Transparent Non-Transparency

    Ad agency hold cos have broadcasted their earnings. As AI and acquisitions transform their businesses, there are clear winners and losers. With media as a strong spot, we discuss the paradox of “transparent nontransparency.”

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  • AI

    Dentsu’s Carat Partners With An AI Platform To Bring Its Agents (Almost) To Life

    Dentsu-owned media agency Carat wants to understand audiences better, and its solution is an introvert’s dream: cut down on human conversations and bring in the bots. On Thursday, Carat announced a partnership with Vurvey Labs (a portmanteau of “video” and “survey”), an agentic AI-powered research platform that uses short video surveys to quickly get insights about […]

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