Ad Tech
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Marketers
How A Specialized CRM Platform Is Helping Restaurants Dig Into Audience Insights
Imagine if your favorite restaurant didn’t just know your usual but how many times you’ve ordered it, your spending habits at that establishment and what you’ve looked at on its website. A little creepy? Perhaps. But also a great way to make sure the messaging you receive is tailored to your individual tastes, which often […]
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The Big Story
Will AI Companies Pay Publishers?
Pause ads are going programmatic, as connected TV ad buying becomes more automated. Plus: how publishers are proposing to be compensated by AI companies – and the odds that they’ll receive what they are asking for.
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CTV Roundup
Pure Dating App Swipes Right On Programmatic CTV Ad Buying
Back when the Pure app first launched in 2012, it was a completely anonymous hookup app. Now, it’s using CTV as a way to explain its rebranded vibe to prospective new users.
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Marketers
The Media And Retail Deals Behind The Peppa Pig Franchise Expansion
Peppa Pig is everywhere. Whether or not you have children, you likely know the little girl pig from the kid’s cartoon show. But the Peppa media franchise is just getting started. The program was acquired by Hasbro in 2019, and it’s become a YouTube and streaming hit that’s spawned toothpastes, toys and all sorts of […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
What Raising Teens Taught Me About Ethical Marketing In A Hyper-Engaged World
Building a career in social media marketing while raising kids has been a unique, dichotomous experience. From 9 am to 5 pm, I’m heads-down, focused on maximizing audience growth and engagement while crafting content designed to captivate viewers and keep their eyes (and thumbs) locked in. At home, however, I find myself actively monitoring the […]
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AdExchanger Talks
ROAS? Nah. The Home Depot’s All About ROMO
Seriously, guys. Enough with the ROAS (return on ad spend) obsession. It’s time for a smarter approach to measurement that focuses on more than short-term outcomes, says Melanie Babcock-Brown, VP of media and monetization for Orange Apron Media, The Home Depot’s retail media network. When retail media took off around five years ago, retailers concentrated […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
The Unsung Hero Of Ad Tech’s AI Revolution: The Cloud
Since ChatGPT exploded into public consciousness, the conversation in ad tech has centered around AI. Generative tools, predictive models, attention algorithms: AI now touches nearly every part of the ecosystem, from media planning and creative to optimization and reporting. But while AI captures the spotlight, another foundational technology has quietly enabled much of this progress: […]
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AI
Brands Want To Know What LLMs Are Saying About Them, And This Startup Has Answers
It used to be enough for brands to just track what their human customers were saying about them. Now they need to know what LLMs are saying about them, too. At the same time, the rise of AI has sped up every factor of digital marketing. Campaigns can be designed and launched in a matter of […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
A Year In Data Privacy Is A Lifetime, So Your ‘New’ Compliance Policy May Already Be Outdated
Everything seems to get better and last longer. Remember when it was recommended to change your oil every 3,000 miles? Now it is 5,000 miles. Remember when milk used to go sour in the fridge in a few days? Now it will make it through the weekend. However, as the realm of privacy law advances, […]
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The Big Story
Remedying A Monopolistic Ad Server
We’ve got the witness list for the remedy phase of the Google antitrust trial, which starts in September. How might Google be forced to change its ad server and exchange to make this corner of the ad tech market competitive again?