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By Jaime Schultheis, Head of Global Data Partnerships at Bombora Every major shift in digital advertising has followed the same pattern. Innovation comes first, guardrails come later. Search, social, and programmatic advertising all scaled rapidly before the industry fully grappled with privacy, transparency, and user trust. The result was predictable: years of regulatory correction, platform […]

As AI absorbs more of the tasks that once defined early careers — the research, the drafts, the foundational “grunt work” — media organizations are reckoning with a deceptively simple question: what happens to the people who were supposed to learn by doing it? Chad Maxwell, President of KSM Media, argues that the industry is […]

Women’s sports are a lot more popular than they used to be. But ad inventory remains scarce, because women’s sports still gets way less mainstream media exposure.

Streaming publishers are banking on pause ads to bolster revenue with a more user-friendly ad experience. With programmatic standardization still pending, Warner Bros. Discovery is taking a stab at advancing the capabilities behind its own pause ad formats.

PR roundup covers an Olive Garden pasta promotion becomes a political flashpoint, new research on how Gen Z is rewriting the path to sports fandom and why the Kraft Heinz and Disney alliance is one of the best brand partnerships.

For years, advertising has been all about reaching the right human at the right time. That premise, however, is shifting in an unexpected way. Agentic AI has created new complexity, with autonomous “agents” that can increasingly evaluate, compare and execute decisions, from product research to actual purchases. Human-to-agent isn’t an incremental change. It’s a structural […]

As AI accelerates the pace of marketing execution, weak foundations become harder to hide. That reality is why MartechTribe and the CMO Council developed the Apex Martech Matrix, a data-driven framework designed to understand what actually drives martech performance in the real world.

Most teams treat podcast show notes as a chore. Used well, they teach an audience something real and leave a permanent AI answers citation for your spokesperson.

When Middesk set out to build trust with Money20/20 attendees, it transformed its booth into “The Trust Club” filled with custom-designed merchandise created specifically for the trade show experience. From heavyweight crewnecks to limited-edition duffles, the brand designed exclusive items to drive engagement at different levels, all leading back to the overarching message. “Trust is […]

By Raghu Kodige, CEO, Anoki The 2026 FIFA World Cup was not just the biggest sporting event of the summer. It became one of the defining stories on U.S. television news. Over five weeks, coverage moved far beyond match results. Team USA, host cities, underdog runs, controversy and individual players all influenced which stories broke […]