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  • Influencer Marketing Grows Up

    If creators want brand dollars, they have to play by the rules of data-driven marketing and measurement, says Ryan Detert, CEO and co-founder of Publicis-owned influencer marketing platform Influential.

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  • The AI Chat Ad Frontier: What LLMs Change About Brand Safety And Control

    ChatGPT ads are here, and brands are testing the waters. This marks the true start of LLMs as a new advertising channel, reshaping the customer journey and introducing a new surface for brand safety and suitability. It’s a real inflection point for advertising.  Impressions, searches and even transactions that once traveled through websites will increasingly […]

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  • Eight Strategies for Reducing Food Waste in Trade Shows and Events

    Some 2,600 unserved meals were donated by the Washington Hilton after the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner was cut short on April 25 by a gunman. During a rare and dramatic event, the staff were able to follow the established food-saving protocols and didn’t let the meals go to waste.  The Washington Hilton is […]

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  • Are Ad Networks Cool Again?; Oil Costs Are Seeping Into Grocery Aisles

    Agents of Confusion Marketers and publishers are testing agentic solutions for media buying. But it’s unclear whether agents will simplify or further obscure the programmatic supply chain.  Omnicom CEO John Wren told investors last week that the holdco is testing agent-to-agent campaigns without ad tech fees, Digiday reports. Stagwell, Butler/Till and others are pursuing similar […]

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  • Is Agentic Commerce An Oasis Or Mirage?

    This week, I’m ruminating on the word mirage. It is a useful term for the ongoing debate over if and when agentic shopping – as in, people assigning agents the latitude and payment info to make purchases on their behalf – will actually happen. Unlike “illusion,” say, or a term like “potential” or “promise,” the […]

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  • Murdoch Denies Fox-NFL Tension

    Analysts have long been waiting in anticipation to see how the NFL’s next media rights deals will play out.

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  • Top Woman in Marketing: Vested’s Binna Kim

    In our latest Top Women in Marketing feature, Binna Kim from Vested shares the moments that shaped her career, the risks that paid off and the perspective driving her forward.

  • Will OpenAI’s New Measurement Tools And Ads Manager Prove Its Worth As An Ad Channel?

    Now that OpenAI is in the ad platform business, the next step is getting into the prove-your-ads-work business. Enter the OpenAI conversion API (CAPI), which the company announced on Tuesday along with the public launch of its self-serve ads manager, a cost-per-click bidding product (which is native to search advertisers, compared to the programmatic CPM) […]

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  • 3 Reasons to Embrace the Era of AI Slop

    When it’s good, AI can improve our processes, like how a calculator spares us the need to write out long division. But speeding up your math means nothing if you still can’t balance your checkbook.

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  • The Screen Everyone Ignored Is Now the One Everyone Wants

    Every platform in the world is chasing the same thing: an audience that actually pays attention. Gaming already has it. That’s the view of André Swanston, Founder & CEO of PHȲND, who argues that while social feeds compete for seconds and streaming content plays in the background, gamers are fully immersed — engaged for extended sessions, […]

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