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Digital & Technology
If You’re Not Tracking These 10 PR KPIs in 2026, You’re Already Behind
Keep in mind that core KPIs typically hold steady for two to three years for year-over-year measurement, and the metrics beneath them change much more quickly as technology enables richer, faster insight.
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Data-Driven Thinking
Why Smart Marketers Look Beyond The Leading Platforms To Deliver Outcomes
Across industries, marketing teams are navigating a brutal equation: shrinking budgets, leaner teams and rising performance pressure. In this environment, platforms like Meta and Google dominate the ecosystem. Their unrivaled scale and AI-powered technology make them safe bets for marketing and user acquisition. But as these leaders push further into automation, they’ve reduced the manual […]
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Cynsiders
AI Won’t Save You From Your Bad Data
By Brian Silver, EVP of Global Marketing Solutions at TransUnion At CES this year, AI was everywhere. But the thing that stood out most was not a flashy demo or a new use case. It was a statistic: 60 percent of AI projects will be abandoned this year because companies are not ready from a […]
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Cynsiders
Has CTV measurement Truly Caught Up to the Sophistication of Digital Advertising?
Connected TV was supposed to fix what traditional television never could: opaque measurement, broad assumptions, and probabilistic outcomes built on GRPs. And in many ways, it has. But the real question is not whether CTV is more measurable than linear TV — it clearly is. The more meaningful debate is whether CTV measurement has truly […]
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B-to-B Events
Throwback: Six Trade Show Exhibit Trends from 2016
Have you dug up your 2016 photos yet? Trade shows were booming, the next generation to be catered to was millennials, the Electronic Entertainment Expo was still around, VR headsets were all the rage, and Pokémon Go was expected to take augmented reality mainstream. Some things, however, were still relatively the same as they are […]
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Marketers
I Asked ChatGPT Where My Ads Were – But It Was Wrong, OpenAI Said
It’s official: ChatGPT has launched ads and the test will expand in the coming weeks. But don’t ask the LLM for details, unless you’re looking for misinformation.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Ring’s Ad Backlash, Palantir Employee Pushback and AI Super Bowl Skepticism
This week’s PR Roundup shows how quickly trust can unravel. Ring’s Super Bowl ad received backlash for its AI-powered “Search Party” feature, which aimed to charm viewers with a lost-puppy story, but many found it “creepy,” igniting privacy concerns.
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Executive Round-Up
Executive Round Up: Convergent TV World Countdown
Cablefax, Cynopsis, AdExchanger and AdMonsters are coming together—much like the media industry—to host Convergent TV World on March 5-6 in NYC.
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Data-Driven Thinking
When Conversation Becomes Inventory: How OpenAI Could Reshape Digital Advertising
For decades, digital advertising has relied on proxies for intent: demographics, behaviors, cohorts and fragmented signals inferred from clicks and cookies. As of this week, that model is being tested. OpenAI has begun experimenting with ads in ChatGPT, matching sponsored messages to the topics and prompts within a user’s conversation. In a prompt-driven environment like […]
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Cynsiders
Rethinking Local Advertising for a Converged Era
In November, Michael Collins joined Locality as its first Chief Executive Officer, signaling a pivotal new chapter for the company and for the broader local media marketplace. His appointment comes at a time of rapid transformation across the television ecosystem, as streaming and broadcast continue to converge and advertisers demand more unified, performance-driven solutions. Collins […]