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For all the talk about AI transforming marketing, many brands still wait weeks just to push a single audience from a CRM into paid media – a lag that’s hard to square with the rise of autonomous AI agents. “But that’s actually pretty normal in the industry,” said Rio Longacre, a partner and global ad […]

Discover practical steps for implementing AI governance immediately. We explore mapping your AI footprint, creating digestible guides, vetting vendors and ensuring transparent disclosure for a cohesive organizational strategy.

By Rowena Lam, Senior Director of Product at IAB Tech Lab Everyone is excited about AI agents that autonomously create campaigns, discover optimal placement, execute strategies, optimize performance, and report results. They do all this while communicating with other agents to complete transactions. It’s automation at scale. It sounds great. The one word almost completely […]

If there are two things ad tech isn’t short on, it’s acronyms and, more recently, AI product demos. But MCP – short for Model Context Protocol – is more than another TLA (sorry, three-letter acronym) or AI buzzword. Metaphorically speaking, it’s plumbing for AI: the piping that lets large language models connect to other software […]

I’ve been saying for years that addressable advertising was a strategic mistake. Not because targeting shouldn’t exist, but because building an ecosystem dependent on granular identity, location trails and behavioral signals was always going to create exposure we couldn’t fully control.  And if we’re being honest, the precision targeting story was oversold anyway. The industry […]

Family-safety app Life360 has been quietly building an ad tech stack. Last year, it made two acquisitions: Fantix’s advertising unit in February, then publisher-focused ad platform Nativo in November for $120 million. Fantix, an AI platform for privacy-safe targeting and measurement, helped Life360 take its first steps into advertising. Life360 is applying the tech to understand […]

PR Roundup covers Anthropic’s Claude buckling under the weight of its own viral moment, the McDonald’s CEO trying to sell America on a new burger, and a new conscious consumerism report quietly dismantles the narrative that sustainability is dead

Fees, fees, fees. The Trade Desk is facing market pressure in all directions: from rival DSPs offering lower fee structures, SSPs and agencies clashing over its OpenPath product and bearish investors disappointed with growth. Guest Sarah Caputo, founder of consultancy Fraction Method, tells us why The Trade Desk should reduce its margin and make its fees more transparent.

It can be hard to measure the effect of advertising on in-person sales. Men’s Wearhouse partnered with measurement agency Ovative to see what was working.

Amazon audiences will be trending on Netflix soon. Amazon Ads announced that, starting next quarter, US media buyers will be able to tap Amazon Audiences for targeting when they run Netflix campaigns through the Amazon DSP.