Ad Tech
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CTV Roundup
VideoAmp’s Vampfront Event Proves The Measurement Company Is Out For Blood
When Executive Chairman Peter Liguori kicked off VideoAmp’s “Vampfront” presentation on Tuesday by encouraging more people to sit in front with a joke – that contrary to the popular idiom, he does bite, actually – of course I started thinking about my favorite pop culture vampires.
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The Big Story
Riffing On Tariff Tiffs And Risks As Uncertainty Reigns
The Trump tariff situation is in constant flux, creating uncertainty that spells doom for any potential growth in US ad spending this year. Plus, how retail media and other emerging channels could be threatened by tariff turmoil.
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Marketers
How AI Helps Butler/Till Curate High-Performing PMPs
Programmatic bidding algorithms aren’t always aligned with campaign goals, so agencies are relying on AI tech to create algorithms tailored to their campaigns instead. Butler/Till ran a display ad campaign on behalf of a financial services client between August and September last year that utilized tech from SWYM.ai, a company that provides programmatic decisioning tools […]
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AdExchanger Talks
AI Isn’t Something To Fear – Or Rush Into
AI isn’t something a marketer “does.” It’s not a singular action or task, and there is no AI easy button. And so AI researcher and consultant Cecilia Dones tries to “get underneath” the reasons behind why marketers want to integrate AI into their businesses.
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Data-Driven Thinking
Is Your Data Gen AI-Ready? Here Are 3 Steps For Shaking Up Your Data Strategy
It’s tempting to think AI models can hack their way to the best solution possible, no matter how basic the input we give. But feeding clean first-party data to AI models is an absolute prerequisite to ensuring that the output is on-brand and accurate. And there is little value in generating five times more content […]
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Marketers
Trump’s Tariffs Are Bad News For Anyone Who Relies On Ad Revenue
The Trump tariffs are official – and the impact on ad spend could be even more grim and wide-ranging than expected. On Wednesday, President Trump announced 10% baseline tariffs on just about every country, including a few uninhabited islands. Certain countries, including China, Vietnam, Taiwan and the EU got slapped with even higher tariffs. The […]
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The Big Story
Bots And Games Are Back (For Ad Tech)
What’s old is new. Time is a flat circle. Trends are cyclical. Choose your idiom, because this week’s episode grapples with two topics that are not new to online advertising, but have both roared back into the public consciousness. The first is the scourge of bot traffic, scrutiny courtesy of a recent Adalytics report, and […]
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Online Advertising
WPP Acquires Data Clean Room Startup InfoSum
WPP has bought InfoSum, a data clean room and collaboration startup. Terms of the deal, announced on Thursday, were not disclosed. This acquisition reunites InfoSum with Brian Lesser, its former CEO. InfoSum will sit within GroupM, now led by Lesser, who was chairman and CEO of InfoSum until he joined WPP in September.
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Data-Driven Thinking
Less Is More: Why Excluding Audiences Leads To Stronger Campaigns
Advertisers and their agency partners are well-versed in assembling audiences based on who they want to reach. Yet effective audience composition isn’t simply about deciding who is ideal; it’s also about determining who should be excluded. Audience suppression is a superpower that many advertisers don’t realize they have. When used effectively, it can be the […]
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AdExchanger Talks
‘Real-Time Creativity,’ With Brandtech CEO David Jones
To say that David Jones, CEO and founder of The Brandtech Group, is bullish on generative AI would be an understatement. “Every single facet of marketing can be done better, faster and cheaper using technology and AI,” Jones says. “I’d rather have a fast, efficient machine than a slow, grumpy creative with a big ego.”