Search Results for: data
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Data-Driven Thinking
Why Amazon Is Gaining Ground In CTV And The Trade Desk Is Losing Its Lead
CTV advertising is booming, with the channel growing by 13% in 2025 to $26.6 billion and projected to hit $51 billion by 2029. In this environment, you’d expect to see sustained overperformance from The Trade Desk, a CTV aggregator with video representing a high-40s percentage of its business. But for some time now, TTD has […]
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Digital & Technology
Beyond the One-Off: How Brands Are Playing the Long Game in Virtual Worlds
Brands are putting real investment into gaming integrations in virtual worlds, going deeper than a single campaign.
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Cynsiders
Beyond Retrospective Damage Control: Cutting Off Harmful Content at the Source
By Fiona Salmon, Managing Director at Mantis Content moderation has become one of the most heated topics in digital media. Since 2025, several steps have been taken in the US in line with the Trump administration’s views on free speech, including relaxing fact-checking processes for Facebook and YouTube, and the recent decision to ban European […]
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Marketers
Dstillery Has A New Agentic AI Interface For Refining Audiences Faster
DS-1, a new agentic AI interface developed by audience platform Dstillery, aims to reduce manual inefficiencies within audience curation.
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Marketers
The Trade Desk Welcomes OpenTTD, The Partner Integration Portal To Rule Them All
Add another “Open” to the list. The Trade Desk has OpenPath, OpenAds, OpenSincera and, as of today, a new platform portal called OpenTTD. The OpenTTD product, which will be announced by the DSP during LiveRamp’s RampUp conference in San Francisco later this morning, creates a single login and integrated analytics for companies that span different […]
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Crisis Management
Inside a TikTok Outage: A Practical Playbook for PR and Social Teams
Do not overreact to a single outage, but do use this moment to pressure‑test your dependence on TikTok as a single point of failure.
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Data-Driven Thinking
Why Binary Audience Decisions Aren’t Fit For The Agentic Era
Every era of advertising has been defined by the moment its infrastructure became the bottleneck. In the late 1990s, the bottleneck was the fax machine. Media buyers negotiated insertion orders over phone calls, signed paper contracts and waited days to confirm a campaign was live. The industry did not abandon that process because it was […]
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CMO Council
Five Structural Repairs for Marketing Organizations to Pass the AI Audit
AI has the power to operationalize and scale weaknesses within marketing organizations. So if marketing leaders want to plan intelligently, they’ll have to make a series of structural repairs. Here are five that separate marketing organizations that pass the AI audit from those that fail it.
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The Big Story
Feeding A DSP With Shopper Data
The strategic value of commerce data continues to rise, as Infillion snaps up Catalina. Then, a court filing reveals where agencies spend clients’ money.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: BAFTA Apology, Employees More Trusted than CEOs, Burger King Updates Whopper
From a crisis communications misstep on one of the entertainment industry’s biggest stages and new data showing employees now outpace CEOs in brand trust, to Burger King’s surprisingly human response to a decade of customer complaints, this week’s PR Roundup highlights the power—and pitfalls—of modern communications.