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Branding/Marketing
What Gwyneth Paltrow Taught a Room Full of PR Pros
Bjertnæs shared that Paltrow’s key message resonated well beyond celebrity: all PR is good PR, as long as integrity leads the way.
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Marketers
Baby Monitor Brand Owlet Cut Back On Search – And Sales Didn’t Drop
Owlet’s target customer isn’t in market for very long. The publicly traded baby tech company is best known for its smart “sock,” a wearable that wraps around an infant’s foot to track heart rate, oxygen levels, movement and sleep, and then sends alerts to a parent’s phone. Owlet also sells a Wi-Fi baby monitor and […]
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AdExchanger Talks
How ‘Wrapped’ Insights Become Audience Segments
Has Spotify ever described your musical taste as “yacht rock coastal grandmother” or “divorced dad hipster”? Even if Spotify’s very specific-sounding labels don’t exactly describe who you are, they probably accurately capture the vibe of your listening habits – and help explain why its daily personalized playlists and its annual Wrapped listening summaries are so […]
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Cynopsis: Sports
Cynopsis Sports 05/26/26: Netflix Gets Upfront and Personal With the NFL
Tuesday May 26, 2026 Good morning! It’s Tuesday, and this is your monthly Cynopsis Sports newsletter. The best in sports media are headed to New York. The 2026 Cynopsis Sports Awards take place June 4, and this year’s finalist lineup reads like a who’s who of the industry — ESPN, NBC, Fox Sports, Prime […]
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Marketers
Pirated Sports Streams Are Warping TV’s Most Important Ratings
Advertisers love live sports. But good luck measuring that investment. Although tides of ad revenue flow based on the ratings of certain tentpole TV events, a new crop of scammers now operate illicit sports livestreaming rings, and there’s almost nothing broadcasters can do about it. According to a new report released Tuesday by ad tech […]
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Programming
CNN Headlines Reimagines FAST News
When CNN relaunched its FAST channel last summer, the network didn’t pitch it as a revenue play or a hedge against cord-cutting. Instead, CNN Headlines was viewed as more experimental.
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Cynsiders
The New Upfront Playbook
Two of WBD Advertising’s top executives — Ryan Gould, President of Go to Market, and Bobby Voltaggio, President of Platform Monetization — put their heads together to share what’s driving the conversation this Upfront season, and where premium video is headed next. What do you think is the most significant trend this Upfront season? […]
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AI
AI Is Finally Doing Real Work In Ad Ops (But Only When It Works With Your Existing Tech)
For all the AI-in-ad-ops talk, plenty of publisher teams are still trapped in the grind of pulling GAM reports by hand and trying to reverse engineer why revenue dropped. At Programmatic AI in Las Vegas, Jordan Cauley, who launched a publisher monetization tech consultancy after an eight-plus-year stint as a product lead at Mediavine, made […]
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AdExplainer
The Programmatic Auction Is Changing In Real Time – Here’s How
Programmatic advertising has changed a lot in the nearly 20 years since the first RTB ad auction. On the surface, programmatic is just the automated buying and selling of digital ads. Under the hood, there’s a complex, high-speed auction system that decides in milliseconds which ads appear across display, video, CTV, audio, retail and other […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
Making Marketing More Modular: What Agentic AI Can Learn From The Shipping Container Revolution
Today’s explosion of AI service providers has everyone looking back at the dot-com bubble, revisiting the technological boom and bust at the turn of the millennia for historical precedent to help us separate real innovation from BS. History is a valuable teacher, but I look beyond the history of the ad tech industry for inspiration. […]