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Cynsiders
The Internal Politics Blocking First-Party Data Success
By Alexandra Theriault, Chief Growth Officer, Lotame As consumer demands rise and the threat of third-party identifier deprecation looms, shifting to first-party data is no longer theoretical—it’s vital. But despite major investments, many enterprises still can’t meaningfully activate their first-party data. Why? The problem isn’t technology. It’s politics. Siloed teams, legacy infrastructure, and misaligned incentives […]
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Crisis Management
Your Story or Theirs: Why Narrative Risk Now Trumps Brand Risk
In 2025, most business leaders can rattle off their product risks, regulatory risks, even brand risks. But a more insidious threat lurks under it all: narrative risk—the danger that someone else tells your company’s story faster, louder or more convincingly than you do. And not always truthfully.
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AI
What Google’s AI Mode Means for Search Traffic and Brands
Google launched “AI Mode,” a chatbot-style interface embedded into its apps, at its annual developers conference this week. The new feature stands to alter the search landscape even further, requiring brands to shift from optimizing for search to optimizing for audiences.
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ROI | Metrics
Gartner: 39% of CMOs Plan to Reduce Labor Costs and Cut Agency Allocations
According to Gartner’s 2025 CMO Spend Survey, marketing budgets as share of company revenue remain flat, and 39% of plan to reduce labor costs and cut agency allocations.
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CTV Roundup
Why CTV Won’t Fall Into The Same Commoditization Trap As The Open Internet Did
At AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO event in Las Vegas this week, our executive editor, Sarah Sluis, asked a panel of experts from NBCUniversal, Roku and Tubi if programmatic buying will inevitably lead to a repeat on CTV of what happened with digital media publishers.
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The Big Story
Prog IO Live: AI, But With A Human Gut Check
Recorded live on the Programmatic IO stage in Las Vegas, the editorial team recaps the trends that dominated our conference: marketers adopting AI and finding truth through measurement.
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Marketers
OMD Shares Its Alternative ID Strategy At AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO
The number of alternative IDs in the market is daunting. But OMD has a philosophy for determining which IDs will work best for brands’ needs. Emily Proctor, the ad agency’s executive director of data and technology solutions, shared that philosophy at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO in Las Vegas on Tuesday. It boils down to this: “Test, […]
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Digital & Technology
Google I/O Spells Uh-Oh for Search
This week at Google I/O, the annual Google developers’ conference, the tech giant made a bold statement: AI is no longer an experiment in search—it IS search.
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Trade Shows
5 Ways to Make Your Next Exhibit Program More Sustainable on a Budget
Slowly but steadily, the trade show and events industry is taking tangible steps towards a more sustainable future, and making it easier for brands to meet their sustainability goals, or just be more responsible exhibitors, because it’s the right thing to do. Suppliers are putting systems in place that are becoming industry standards. Environmentally friendly […]
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Digital & Technology
Shaping the Next Era of Communications: A Q&A with Brandi Boatner
In our conversation, Brandi Boatner shares candid insights on the power of cultural intelligence, the importance of trust in this AI-driven communications era, and why proactive PR is more vital than ever.