Ad Tech
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AI
StatSocial’s New AI Tool Digital Twins Is Helping Shepherd To Pressure-Test Audience Insights
Finding the right audience is hard. Finding an audience that barely exists in traditional research panels is even harder. That’s the challenge agencies face when clients want insights into highly specific consumer groups, such as politically independent news subscribers or niche investor communities. Recruiting those audiences can take weeks and cost thousands of dollars, often […]
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Marketers
Marketers Are Getting Used To AI In The Ad Stack
Marketers and media buyers are gradually getting more comfortable talking about ad campaigns they’re testing on large-language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
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Marketers
For Video Publishers, Performance And AI Go Hand In Hand
In Connected TV Ad Land, proving performance is the priority for video advertisers. To drive more demonstrable reach and results, publishers are trying to expand their reach while wringing more data and AI features into their offerings.
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Proving CTV Performance Under Executive Scrutiny
CTV has become a core performance channel, but measurement hasn’t kept pace with rising scrutiny from executives and finance teams. Today, marketers are expected to prove incremental revenue impact, not just impressions, reach, or platform-reported ROAS, and defend results in budget conversations. In this panel discussion, leaders from PebblePost and AdExchanger will examine why traditional […]
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Marketers
Independent Ad Tech Is Reframing Itself Around Cloud Hardware
Wait a minute, there’s a programmatic hardware race going on right now? You heard that right. The rapid development and adoption of cloud-based tech have led to new splits in how third-party programmatic vendors position themselves in the market. The positioning essentially comes down to owning one’s own cloud infrastructure or renting bandwidth and cloud […]
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Marketers
Ad Performance Hinges On Kicking Fragmentation’s Butt
As performance takes center-stage in more advertising discussions, demands to solve fragmentation and cruddy measurement are reaching a fever pitch.
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The Big Story
AI Off The Rails
A word of caution to digital advertising companies, as they go all in on AI algorithms: They need to build these solutions with ownership, governance and accountability from the start – or AI could sink them with a single mistake.
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CTV Roundup
Better Attribution Makes Live Sports A Performance Play
To squeeze the most juice out of their live sports campaigns, many marketers are adopting programmatic buying and marketing mix modeling, both of which are also drawing more advertisers to the digital live sports cornucopia.
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Data-Driven Thinking
The W3C Is Making A Critical Mistake About Measuring Advertising Effectiveness
The W3C’s proposed “Attribution Level 1” browser standard deserves far more scrutiny from the advertising and measurement community than it has so far received. The public comment period remains open through June 10. At a moment when advertisers face enormous pressure to justify spending and many publishers outside the largest platforms are struggling economically, industry […]
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Marketers
Outgoing Prebid President Mike Racic On His Departure And The Org’s Next Act
Prebid is turning the page on what might be called its second chapter, as the organization navigates some major changes in the digital advertising landscape and within its own ranks. Over the course of just a few days last week, news emerged that Prebid President Mike Racic and Christian Janelli, Prebid’s director of product management, […]