AI
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AI
PubX Raises $5 Million And Buys Digital Governance Startup Compliant
Andrew Mole, the CEO and co-founder of UK-based agentic AI ad startup pubX, has a theory about why agentic ad tech has a tendency to hallucinate. In his view, it’s not the LLM’s fault. Hallucinations happen when a large language model queries a demand-side platform that doesn’t know how to talk to an agent. Legacy […]
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AI
Programmatic IO: Insurers Are Building Ad Tech’s AI Accountability Layer
Agencies and marketers discussed the future of AI governance at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO NYC this week. The main takeaway? Expect insurers to play an increasingly important role in managing AI compliance.
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AI
OpenAI Says Sponsored Chats Are The Future. The Future Of Publisher Monetization Isn’t So Clear
Sponsored agents are the future of AI-native advertising experiences, according to Colleen Coulter, global ad solutions lead at OpenAI. But what do LLMs owe publishers?
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AI
This Creator Marketing Platform Has Gone Fully Agentic
Upfluence guides brands through the process of finding and executing creator partnerships using its agentic system, Jaice.
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Shopper/Retail
Custom Ink Bets on Gratitude, Earned Media to Grow Its K-12 Business
The custom swag brand pitched local media to amplify its “Unsung Heroes of School Spirit” campaign. Custom Ink has 100,000 K-12 customers a year, representing a meaningful share of its sales, its CMO says.
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AI
SQREEM Touts The Large Behavioral Model – Not The LLM – As The Winning Predictive Engine
Rather than relying on machine learning, SQREEM uses a mathematical AI model to track how systems change over time and predict audience behavior.
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AI
Inside Mortgage Solutions Financial’s ChatGPT Ad Experiment
Dawn Dawson, CMO at Mortgage Solutions Financial, has started using ChatGPT as both an ad channel and an education layer to overhaul how her team finds and qualifies demand.
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Profiles & Campaigns
The UPS Store SVP: Character Marketing Isn’t Just For B2C
In this Q&A, The UPS Store’s Senior Vice President of Marketing shares that small-business owners relate to empathetic characters just like everyday consumers, and that can lead to a sticky marketing campaign.
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AI
Everyone Has An Opinion On The Best AEO Tactics. Do Any Of Them Really Work?
“All I know is that I know nothing.” This quote (along with variations of it) is frequently attributed to Socrates, via Plato’s account of him. For most of the past year, it’s also what the leader of almost any company specializing in AI search would tell you. If you asked one of these companies to […]
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Branding/Marketing
What Hyundai’s Childhood Cancer Campaign Reveals About Its Marketing Strategy
Sean Gilpin, CMO at Hyundai Motor America, details the brand’s new marketing campaign, “Mark of a Warrior,” which helps raise funds to fight childhood cancer.