AI
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Marketers
5 Tips for Addressing the Pivotal Changes in B2B Buying Models
Too many B2B vendors have yet to modify their sales models in response to gen AI search habits, marketplace turbulence and economic volatility. For those sellers unsure of how to address GTM changes, Forrester offers some suggestions.
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AI
How Much Are Bots Costing You? IAB Tech Lab Wants Content Owners To Find Out
The bots are hungry for content. The content owners are hungry for monetization. And the IAB Tech Lab is working on new recommendations that will – hopefully – help everyone get fed. On Wednesday, the Tech Lab released its guidance for bot management strategies, which is open for public comment until June 26. The purpose […]
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Research
Survey: Despite Positive C-Suite Relationships, Few CMOs Feel Equipped to Meet Goals
The vast majority of CMOs and communications leaders surveyed in a report from Arketi Group and executive search firm JM Search described their relationships with the C-suite as positive. And 67% said that alignment with the C-suite was a top driver of CMO tenure. Yet only 38% of those surveyed felt set up for success.
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AI
AI Needs Humans In The Lead, Not Just In The Loop, Says JPMorgan Chase Programmatic Lead
Hot take: Sometimes, having more guardrails isn’t a limitation. Instead, the added responsibilities can actually make automation easier, according to Melissa Bonnick, EVP, head of programmatic for JPMorgan Chase. As a financial services company, JPMorgan Chase is beholden to stricter rules than brands in most other verticals. But those restrictions make it easy to communicate […]
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AI
AI Is Finally Doing Real Work In Ad Ops (But Only When It Works With Your Existing Tech)
For all the AI-in-ad-ops talk, plenty of publisher teams are still trapped in the grind of pulling GAM reports by hand and trying to reverse engineer why revenue dropped. At Programmatic AI in Las Vegas, Jordan Cauley, who launched a publisher monetization tech consultancy after an eight-plus-year stint as a product lead at Mediavine, made […]
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AI
These AI Agents Want To Handle All The Annoying Parts Of Media Buying
It’s the great irony of programmatic. The bidding is automated down to the millisecond, but the day-to-day work of running campaigns is still largely manual, from copying data between systems and reconciling reports to running QA checks and drafting explanations for clients when metrics don’t line up. “Inside of the platforms, it’s AI everywhere – but […]
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AI
8 Ways to Use AI in Marketing, According to Anthropic’s Austin Lau
Insights and best practices for marketing teams experimenting with the Claude and other LLMs, according to Anthropic’s growth marketer Austin Lau.
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AI
CMOs Have To Be More Tech-Enabled Than Ever – And So Do Their Agencies
Advertising agencies have invested millions of dollars into their own AI-powered platforms to handle all kinds of tasks, from creative testing to audience targeting and campaign planning. An outsider to Ad Land might be forgiven for assuming all these AI tools are, essentially, the same as one another. (It probably doesn’t help that so many […]
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CMO Council
The Real Power Partners: AI and the Human Marketer
Tom Kaneshige, Chief Content Officer at the CMO Council, explains why the strongest marketing results come from pairing machine intelligence with human judgment.
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AI
POSSIBLE 2026: Industry Experts Dish On AI – And Other Trends To Watch
At POSSIBLE 2026 in Miami, the ad industry was over the hype around AI. Industry experts got real about how agentic AI is actually changing advertising workflows today. And they called out the pie-in-the-sky use cases that could be longer-term possibilities for AI, but that aren’t currently – pardon the pun – possible. In conversations […]