Search Results for: data
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AI
AI Is Quietly Redefining How Users Find and Engage With Content
In the past, users entered the web through Google or social platforms. Now, many are entering through a single AI interface that can deliver personalized results without needing to visit multiple sites.
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B-to-C Events
Consumers’ Leaked Data is Revealed at NordVPN’s Live Hacking Event in NYC
You don’t have to be the kind of person who uses “password” as their password to be at risk of a data breach. And that’s exactly the message cybersecurity company NordVPN aimed to drive home during a live hacking stunt on Oct. 16 in New York, where the brand educated consumers on just how vulnerable […]
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Shopper/Retail
Online October Sales On Track for Holiday Season
Social media ads, generative AI and Prime Day boost online October sales. Holiday sales are expected to slow, as consumers pull forward their holiday shopping.
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Cynsiders
Curation Fills In Gaps Left by Deal IDs on CTV
By Michael Shaughnessy, COO at Kargo Deal IDs have been around for over a decade, which means they have been available for nearly the entirety of programmatic CTV media buying. But Deal IDs haven’t been able to deliver exactly what advertisers have been looking for, or curation wouldn’t have taken off the way it has. By […]
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AI
Google Rolls Out Chatbot Agents For Marketers
The long-awaited Googlebots are here. Which is to say, Google on Wednesday announced the full availability of its new agentic AI tools, called Ads Advisor and Analytics Advisor. Google debuted the two in-platform chatbot solutions at Google Marketing Live in May and is now rolling these bots out to all English-language accounts, Google VP of […]
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Research
Forrester Survey: Customer Experience the Top Focus for B2C CMOs in 2026
A new survey from Forrester suggests that many B2C CMOs are planning to make the customer experience (CX) their top priority in 2026 — a notable shift from last year, when CX didn’t even crack the top five priorities in the same survey.
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AdExchanger Talks
Retail’s AI Moment Is (Almost) Here
Jeff Cohen, Skai’s new chief business development officer, unpacks why the smartest retailers and brands are already connecting the data dots and rethinking their playbooks for the AI era, even though the shopping bots aren’t quite there yet.
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Data-Driven Thinking
AI Slop Is The New MFA, And We All Need To Fight It
Low-quality, AI-generated content – or AI slop – is flooding the open web. The entire digital ecosystem is adapting to the challenges that generative AI’s exponential growth presents. As someone who spends a lot of time thinking about media waste and ROAS, I’ve seen how easy it is for bad actors to spin up thousands […]
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Cynsiders
Media Doesn’t Have to Work Harder — Just Smarter with Retail Data
Christine Foster, Senior Vice President of Kroger Precision Marketing Powered by 84.51°, offers her insights on redefining what “full-funnel impact” really means in retail media. Why is it important to connect upper-funnel brand awareness efforts with lower-funnel sales activation? It is important because consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands are dealing with complex challenges that […]
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Cynsiders
Recognition Is the New Relevance: What Nostalgia and Trust Tell Us About Today’s Consumer
By Crystal Foote, Founder and Head of Client Partnerships, Digital Culture Group (DCG) For years, personalization was the ultimate promise of digital advertising: serve the right message to the right person at the right time and you win. For a while, that held true. But in today’s hyper-automated, AI-saturated marketplace, where every brand claims […]