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AI Can Interpret Data. It Can’t Vouch For It

The next internet will not be built by humans clicking buttons; it will be built by agents acting on behalf of people, brands, publishers, platforms and enterprises. Some of these agents will be simple workflow assistants. Others will manage budgets, audiences, inventory and outcomes with increasing autonomy across systems that were never designed to work […]

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Newton Research’s New Agentic Layer Can (Kinda) Predict The Future

Think of causal modeling like scientifically-backed fortune telling. It looks at whatever data is available and uses that to predict what’s going to happen next. It’s casual modeling that’s at the core of AI ad analytics platform Newton Research’s new agentic layer, called Unlimited Analytics. Launched on Tuesday, Unlimited Analytics contains a host of agents […]

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‘Models Built For Me’

For all the talk about precision and personalization in programmatic, the decisioning is often still stubbornly one-size-fits-all. That’s the main insight behind Chalice AI, a custom algorithm startup that lets brands bring their own models into walled gardens, DSPs and SSPs. But, actually, please don’t call Chalice a “custom algorithm” company anymore. Although Chalice helped […]

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IAB’s New Advice On How To Measure AI Search Visibility

Publishers and brands alike are scrambling to show up in AI search responses, and to be described in their preferred ways. But with new AI optimization tools cropping up faster than you can say AEO, it’s hard to pinpoint which metrics are most important to track and what it even means to measure AI search […]

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AI Agents Are Giving Publishers A New Way To Monetize Their Data

End-to-end agentic ad campaigns are no longer hypothetical; they’re in market. For publishers that have struggled to activate their first-party data, AI agents offer a more automated and bespoke approach to deal curation that wasn’t possible before. PubMatic and Optable are both productizing this shift with agentic tech and collaborating on a new end-to-end workflow […]

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The Big Story

DOOH You Like Women’s Sports?

Women’s sports is having a moment as publishers, advertisers and the tech vendors in between try to capitalize on rising viewership. Digital out-of-home is having a moment, too.

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Sweetgreen Tapped Atmosphere TV To Introduce World Cup Viewers To Its Wraps

Sweetgreen used the World Cup as a marketing opportunity to promote its new wraps. The brand tapped the video advertising startup Atmosphere TV for help running a video ad in those public spaces where people were likely watching the World Cup.

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There’s Not Enough Women’s Sports Ad Inventory To Go Around, But That’s Starting To Change

Women’s sports are a lot more popular than they used to be. But ad inventory remains scarce, because women’s sports still gets way less mainstream media exposure.

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The Hardest KPI In Advertising

Marketing consumer products comes with plenty of challenges. But just try selling a political candidate in a hyper-polarized, 24-hour news environment, says Mark Jablonowski, CEO of DSPolitical, a political ad platform that caters to Democrats and progressive causes.

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How HelloFresh Brought AI Creative To Times Square

Have you ever walked through Times Square and thought, Wouldn’t it be cool if these giant billboard ads could be produced by AI? This doesn’t seem like a universal experience. But for CDP Hightouch, apparently, this question was top of mind. In June, Hightouch launched a one-day Times Square activation to showcase ads that its […]

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