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Cynopsis: Sports
Cynopsis Sports 05/26/26: Netflix Gets Upfront and Personal With the NFL
Tuesday May 26, 2026 Good morning! It’s Tuesday, and this is your monthly Cynopsis Sports newsletter. The best in sports media are headed to New York. The 2026 Cynopsis Sports Awards take place June 4, and this year’s finalist lineup reads like a who’s who of the industry — ESPN, NBC, Fox Sports, Prime […]
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AI
AI Needs Humans In The Lead, Not Just In The Loop, Says JPMorgan Chase Programmatic Lead
Hot take: Sometimes, having more guardrails isn’t a limitation. Instead, the added responsibilities can actually make automation easier, according to Melissa Bonnick, EVP, head of programmatic for JPMorgan Chase. As a financial services company, JPMorgan Chase is beholden to stricter rules than brands in most other verticals. But those restrictions make it easy to communicate […]
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AI
AI Is Finally Doing Real Work In Ad Ops (But Only When It Works With Your Existing Tech)
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 […]
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B-to-B Events
EMS 2026: Everything You Missed on Day Two
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: […]
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AdExplainer
The Programmatic Auction Is Changing In Real Time – Here’s How
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 […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
Making Marketing More Modular: What Agentic AI Can Learn From The Shipping Container Revolution
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. […]
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Shopper/Retail
Sam’s Club Taps Its Members For New Influencer Program
Warehouse retailer Sam’s Club aims to drive higher lifetime value by creating a platform for its current members to become influencers.
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B-to-B Events
Event Measurement Tech Spotlight: An Update on Beacons
Successful event measurement practices are selective about what they track and measure.
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Data-Driven Thinking
Brands Don’t Need Perfect Data To Use AI
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 […]
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Mobile
Finch’s First Brand Campaign Celebrates the Weirder Side of Self-Care
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.