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For all the AI-in-ad-ops talk, plenty of publisher teams are still trapped in the grind of pulling GAM reports by hand and trying to reverse engineer why revenue dropped. At Programmatic AI in Las Vegas, Jordan Cauley, who launched a publisher monetization tech consultancy after an eight-plus-year stint as a product lead at Mediavine, made […]

Day two of the Experiential Marketing Summit offered up a jam-packed slate of hands-on experiences, curated off-sites and discussions focused on how fresh thinking, hyper- personalization, sustainability and measurement maintain relevance and impact in a digitally dominated world. Let’s dig in. More Coverage: • EMS 2026: Everything You Missed on Day One • Winners Unveiled: […]

Programmatic advertising has changed a lot in the nearly 20 years since the first RTB ad auction. On the surface, programmatic is just the automated buying and selling of digital ads. Under the hood, there’s a complex, high-speed auction system that decides in milliseconds which ads appear across display, video, CTV, audio, retail and other […]

Today’s explosion of AI service providers has everyone looking back at the dot-com bubble, revisiting the technological boom and bust at the turn of the millennia for historical precedent to help us separate real innovation from BS.  History is a valuable teacher, but I look beyond the history of the ad tech industry for inspiration. […]

Warehouse retailer Sam’s Club aims to drive higher lifetime value by creating a platform for its current members to become influencers.

Successful event measurement practices are selective about what they track and measure.

There is a common refrain that AI requires high-quality data to deliver high-quality results. “Garbage in/garbage out” refers to the idea that any AI trained on less than perfect data will not be able to produce valuable outputs. Before I get accused of dismissing the importance of quality data, high-quality data does produce the best […]

On the self-care app Finch, users care for a digital bird by completing small acts of self-care like drinking water, tidying up and performing breathing exercises. But one of the most popular pre-set goals on the app is something more basic: survive the day.

Hundreds of exasperated and unexpected ad industry phone calls were made on Sunday, as agencies and ad tech vendors discussed the fallout of Publicis Groupe’s $2.2 billion acquisition of LiveRamp over the weekend. Publicis has roughly doubled its market cap over the past four years, as other agency holdcos and ad tech businesses have struggled. […]

Insights and best practices for marketing teams experimenting with the Claude and other LLMs, according to Anthropic’s growth marketer Austin Lau.