Search Results for: data
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Data-Driven Thinking
The Trade Desk’s Blue Ocean Moment: How The DSP Can Rewrite Ad Tech’s Rules
In ad tech, group thinking is the silent killer. It convinces great companies to keep playing the same game long after the rules have changed. Too many leaders keep reaching for the same playbook that worked a decade ago: connect pipes, aggregate inventory, plug data, take a cut. Even The Trade Desk (TTD), arguably the […]
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CTV Roundup
LiveRamp Exec Adam Paul Talks Scaling Context In CTV Audiences
According to Adam Paul, executive director of media alliances at LiveRamp, the old-school programmatic ads – the ones bought across multiple platforms without regard to context or audience – are underperforming on CTV these days.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: TS12 Brand Mania, White House Crime Confusion, LinkedIn Shares Top Colleges
This week’s PR Roundup examines the Taylor Swift effect on brands, how miscommunications at a federal level can cause crisis, and LinkedIn’s back-to-school data. Brands Hop on Taylor Swift’s TS12 Announcement What happened: Taylor Swift might as well be named a fifth element. Everything that woman touches turns to marketing gold. You have air, fire, […]
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B-to-B Events
From Chatbots to Agents and Beyond: How AI is Transforming Trade Shows in 2025
The use of AI is evolving at neck-breaking speed across every aspect of our lives, rapidly changing how we plan, work and even think. In trade shows, this evolution is also happening fast, with AI powering everything, from access to knowledge to agents that can be built with no coding skills. Here’s what we’re seeing […]
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AI
The Truth About AI Video Yield: What Media Publishers, Brands And Ad Ops Professionals Must Know Before Scaling
Yield, as it relates to AI video, describes the percentage of generated videos that are immediately usable—meeting the standards for accuracy, brand consistency, compliance and creative impact.
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Marketers
The Startup Trying To Automate The Ad Platform Reconciliation And Refund Mess
Walled garden platform advertisers may not know where their ads were served or who they targeted, and have no log files to boot, but they paid for those ads all the same. And they may have enough info to claim a refund. That’s the idea behind the startup Vaudit, founded last year by Mike Hahn, […]
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AI
Sorry, LLMs – Congress Might Make It A Whole Lot Harder To Train On Copyrighted Content
AI bots are hungry. They’re scraping information found on passports and credit cards and training on novels without authors’ consent. Even fanfiction has been used to train some (presumably quite nerdy) bots. But a bill proposed in the Senate a few weeks ago could change that. In late July, Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Richard […]
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AI
Keep Your Audiences Coming Back for More
From Apartment Therapy’s sponsor-backed tools to MotorTrend’s interactive awards and Digital Trends’ AI gamification, publishers are finding fresh ways to keep audiences engaged. Here’s how they’re turning stickiness into loyalty—and loyalty into revenue.
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Data-Driven Thinking
The Guardrails Are Down: It’s Time For Advertisers To Rethink Social Targeting
Most of us don’t realize how much control we’ve already given up. With industry red flag reports now published regularly, we’re forced to confront the hard truth that control and transparency are further away than we thought. At the same time, social platforms have shifted their content moderation approaches, with most of them embracing a […]
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AI
Olyzon.tv Sees Through The CTV Chaos Using Contextual AI
When Jules Minvielle, co-founder and CEO of Olyzon.tv, launched his third ad tech startup, CTV’s rise and AI’s rewriting of ad ops were too significant to ignore, and he built it to converge the two.