AI
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Marketers on Fire
Marketers on Fire: American Eagle CMO on Kendrick Lamar, Halloween in June and AI Marketing Tools
Craig Brommers, CMO at American Eagle, shares how the brand capitalized on the Super Bowl halftime show when Kendrick Lamar wore flare jeans, plus more marketing insights.
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AI
Why 2025 Will Unlock Audiobooks, In-Car Ads, and AI as the Next Big Audio Opportunities
After leading A Million Ads (AMA) to a 60% revenue growth as chief revenue officer, Paul Kelly was promoted to CEO on December 10, 2024. In this Q&A, Kelly dives into some of the biggest trends shaping the industry, including the rapid expansion of in-car personalized ads, the opportunity for audiobook ads, and more.
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ROI | Metrics
Measuring ROI for Generative AI Lags Behind AI Adoption
Though 63% of marketers use AI, only 49% are measuring the return on their investments, according to AI platform Jasper’s survey of 503 marketing leaders.
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AI
Writing for People and Machines: AI-Era Content Strategies for Marketers
Today’s search landscape isn’t just about optimizing for human readers—it’s about ensuring content is machine-readable, AI-indexable and structured for both people and AI.
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Data & Analytics
Creating a ‘CMO Command Center’ to Navigate a Year of Flux
The CMO Council’s inaugural Marketing Vitality Index has amassed a data lake’s worth of statistics and insights from myriad sources to help marketers navigate through what promises to be a year of flux.
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Technology
Criteo Shopper Survey Highlights Omnichannel Strategies, AI-Powered Personalization
Despite the digitization of the customer experience, 78% of today’s shoppers still prefer seeing physical products in brick-and-mortar stores while researching things to buy.
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AI
AI Search is Eating the Web—Can Publishers Stop It?
Google’s AI Overviews and rival AI search tools are keeping users on their platforms, decimating referral traffic for publishers. As lawsuits mount, is there a way forward for the open web?
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AI
Can We Do Better Than ROAS?
ROAS might be the golden child of ad tech KPIs, but is it really the best measure of success? In this sharp take, Abhijith Jayakumar, Group Director at GroupM and AI storyteller, challenges the industry’s obsession with ROAS and explores better alternatives for measuring true business impact.
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AI
Countering a Deepfake Attack: Three Best Practices for Marketers
More than two-thirds of B2B marketing leaders (68%) are concerned that executives will be victimized by deepfakes, but the majority of them (80%) don’t have a crisis response plan to follow.
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AI
How Collaboration is Redefining the Buyer/Seller Relationship in 2025
While RTBDAY ’25 may have been a buy-side event, there were many takeaways for the sell-side. And if there was one theme weaving through the day that might have been subtle, it was that no one is winning alone anymore. The event highlighted the power of partnerships in navigating AI, measurement, ecommerce, and privacy shifts. Here are seven takeaways publishers need to know now.