Search Results for: content marketing
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Data-Driven Thinking
Q2 2026 Was The Quarter AI Media Started To Scale
Advertising in AI-native destinations and experiences is already starting to look less like a series of experiments and more like an emerging market. Three months ago, I argued that AI platforms had started acting like media companies. Now, the conversation has already changed. It wasn’t simply that OpenAI introduced ads in ChatGPT and advertisers started […]
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B-to-C Events
The Brief: Cowboy Deliveries and Talking Toilet Paper
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover cowboy deliveries, synchronized gaming raids and talking toilet paper.
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Shopper/Retail
Tractor Supply CMO Aims to Balance AI With The Human Connection
At CommerceNext, Tractor Supply’s Chief Marketing Officer discusses how the retailer is using AI to do more, but still keeping its stores and employees as the hub of its brand.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Threads Finds Its People, World Cup Builds a New U.S. Fanbase, and Local News Decline Reshapes CSR
What Threads’ third birthday tells us about the platform’s evolving identity, record World Cup viewership, and new research on how the disappearance of local newspapers is changing CSR.
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Programming
Bill Abbott on Five Years of Great American Media — and Why Focus Wins in a Fragmented Media Market
To mark Great American Media’s fifth anniversary, Cynopsis spoke with President & CEO Bill Abbott about the company’s bold choice to let brand dictate strategy and how that influenced its evolution.
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The Big Story
Can Content Drive Performance?
From avoiding AI slop to achieving show-level transparency on a CTV buy, we talk through how buyers are supercharging performance by focusing on the content where they place their ads.
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Marketers
Attention Gets A Lot Of Attention. But What About Measuring Brand Recognition?
Getting attention is one thing. Knowing how much of it an ad needs to drive brand recognition is something else entirely. Attention intelligence platform xpln.ai is making it its business to know the difference. The startup launched in 2022 with two core products, CEO and Co-Founder Fabien Magalon told AdExchanger: an attention measurement solution that […]
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Shopper/Retail
Target’s VP of Creative Shares Tips After Winning In-House Marketing Agency of the Year
Target’s in-house team of 400 marketers creates worlds and stays true to its brand identity, VP of Creative Scott Swartz says in this Q&A.
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Marketers
Adobe Advertising Just Launched Its Own Custom Algorithms Product
Adobe paid $540 million to buy video DSP TubeMogul in 2016 with plans to build a programmatic advertising powerhouse inside one of the world’s largest marketing clouds. But that promise has gone largely unfulfilled during the 10 years since. Until now, perhaps. Last week, Adobe Advertising announced the general release of its own Custom Algorithms […]
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AI
MFA Ad Spend Is Increasing. Is AI Slop To Blame?
This year, the percentage of ad spend going toward made-for-advertising (MFA) sites went up instead of down for the first time since 2023.