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This week’s PR Roundup looks at OpenAI’s response to ScarJo, the next chapter for healthcare, influencers and agencies, and new data on when to post to social media.

Organizers of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival are consistently on the hunt for fresh ways to keep fans on-site and engaged in everything the event has to offer, from the performances to the partner activations to the f&b.

Retail chain behemoth Walmart reported its revenue increased 6% year over year for its fiscal first quarter 2025 ended April 30, and its U.S. ecommerce sales increased 22% year over year. Walmart also reported that its global advertising business grew 24%, which includes a 26% increase for its U.S. advertising segment called Walmart Connect. This […]

If you’re a brand that wants to in-house its programmatic media buying, the best thing you can do is to make friends with the IT guys. Because without buy-in and support from the internal tech team – whose job it’ll be to handle most of the technical development of any mar tech or data warehouse deployment […]

After continued challenges following the phase-out of third-party cookies for one percent of Chrome users in January, Google has once again delayed cookie deprecation plans. With the timeline pushed to early 2025, agencies now have more time to test targeting options to ensure that they’re prepared for the cookieless world.

Thursday May 23, 2024 Good morning! It’s Thursday, and this is your monthly Esports and Gaming Brief. Larian Studios is doing something few people expect of any game studio in 2024: expanding. Following the commercial and critical acclaim Baldur’s Gate 3 received throughout the past year, Larian has become an example of how talented right-sized […]

The 2016 presidential election gave Americans a taste of the disinformation, misinformation and platform manipulation that’s coming for political media.  These strategies aren’t new, but tactics are more effective than ever. This year, platforms and advertisers are far more sophisticated and have greater reach, with streaming and data-driven media replacing old media that could not […]

Like any addiction, buying cheap impressions on made-for-arbitrage (MFA) content is a vicious cycle that feeds itself. If our industry doesn’t stop the cycle at the source, it will continue indefinitely.  The need for a solution is growing as junk publishers tarnish the reputation of the open internet. We’ve even reached the point where The […]

Retail media networks were already becoming a powerful force, but Google finally following through on its cookie depreciation plan has made them even more desirable for advertisers. The ongoing cookie depreciation has broken a key connecting force in digital advertising. Many publishers and advertisers do not have enough first-party data to produce meaningful targeting in a post-cookie world. Retailers do not have this problem, having built up a massive database of opted-in first-party data.

Audience curation is a manifestation of what the online ad industry has long been calling for: closer collaboration between partners that isn’t built on unreliable third-party signals. To curate custom ad inventory, buyers have started working more closely with the sell side. Publishers have strong insights into user browsing behavior that advertisers can use for […]