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AdExplainer
Understanding MCP, The ‘Universal Adapter’ For AI In Advertising
If there are two things ad tech isn’t short on, it’s acronyms and, more recently, AI product demos. But MCP – short for Model Context Protocol – is more than another TLA (sorry, three-letter acronym) or AI buzzword. Metaphorically speaking, it’s plumbing for AI: the piping that lets large language models connect to other software […]
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Marketers
Inside Life360’s Plan To Build An Ad Platform On Top Of Nativo
Family-safety app Life360 has been quietly building an ad tech stack. Last year, it made two acquisitions: Fantix’s advertising unit in February, then publisher-focused ad platform Nativo in November for $120 million. Fantix, an AI platform for privacy-safe targeting and measurement, helped Life360 take its first steps into advertising. Life360 is applying the tech to understand […]
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Marketers
Men’s Wearhouse Grows Its Audience Through A Campaign Run Solely On Digital Audio
It can be hard to measure the effect of advertising on in-person sales. Men’s Wearhouse partnered with measurement agency Ovative to see what was working.
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Data-Driven Thinking
Why Amazon Is Gaining Ground In CTV And The Trade Desk Is Losing Its Lead
CTV advertising is booming, with the channel growing by 13% in 2025 to $26.6 billion and projected to hit $51 billion by 2029. In this environment, you’d expect to see sustained overperformance from The Trade Desk, a CTV aggregator with video representing a high-40s percentage of its business. But for some time now, TTD has […]
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Cynsiders
Beyond Retrospective Damage Control: Cutting Off Harmful Content at the Source
By Fiona Salmon, Managing Director at Mantis Content moderation has become one of the most heated topics in digital media. Since 2025, several steps have been taken in the US in line with the Trump administration’s views on free speech, including relaxing fact-checking processes for Facebook and YouTube, and the recent decision to ban European […]
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Marketers
Dstillery Has A New Agentic AI Interface For Refining Audiences Faster
DS-1, a new agentic AI interface developed by audience platform Dstillery, aims to reduce manual inefficiencies within audience curation.
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CMO Council
Five Structural Repairs for Marketing Organizations to Pass the AI Audit
AI has the power to operationalize and scale weaknesses within marketing organizations. So if marketing leaders want to plan intelligently, they’ll have to make a series of structural repairs. Here are five that separate marketing organizations that pass the AI audit from those that fail it.
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B-to-B Events
Field Report: 15 Best Exhibits from Design & Construction Week’s Last Hurrah in Orlando
The largest annual gathering of residential construction and design industry professionals, Design & Construction Week (DCW), took over both the North/South and West exhibit buildings at the Orange County Convention Center, Feb. 17-19. It marked one of the biggest trade shows we’ve covered in Orlando, but the roving chapter for this show is coming to […]
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Marketers
WPP Braces For Big Change, As New CEO Cindy Rose Says It Will Ditch The Holdco Label
During Thursday’s earnings call, CEO Cindy Rose announced a new plan to reposition WPP as a single company, rather than an agency holdco.
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Marketers
The Trade Desk Faces Headwinds As Investors Reconsider The Thesis Of Objective Indie Ad Tech
The Trade Desk, a longtime darling of Wall Street and programmatic, is back at square one in terms of convincing investors of the value of an independent DSP and kindling goodwill in the ad tech industry. The company reported Q4 and full-year 2025 earnings on Wednesday. TTD’s revenue grew 14% year over year to $847 […]