Tech Stack
Everyone Has An Opinion On The Best AEO Tactics. Do Any Of Them Really Work?
“All I know is that I know nothing.” This quote (along with variations of it) is frequently attributed to Socrates, via Plato’s account of him. For most of the past year, it’s also what the leader of almost any company specializing in AI search would tell you. If you asked one of these companies to […]
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Marketers on Fire
Marketers on Fire: Andy Lopez Elevated to Behr Paint CMO to Speed Digital Transformation
Andy Lopez was elevated to Chief Marketing Officer of Behr Paint Company last month. We spoke with Lopez about his new role, AI search, creator autonomy and the customer journey.
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AI
A New Bill Targets ‘Bad Bots’ That Scrape Websites Without Permission
Some political issues don’t become mainstream talking points, but that doesn’t make them any less urgent. They’re more like “hygiene [and] vegetables,” quipped Danielle Coffey, president and CEO of the News/Media Alliance, as in, a little unglamorous, but crucial for a healthy body. Or, in this case, a healthy content marketplace. In late July, three […]
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AI
Newton Research’s New Agentic Layer Can (Kinda) Predict The Future
Think of causal modeling like scientifically-backed fortune telling. It looks at whatever data is available and uses that to predict what’s going to happen next. It’s casual modeling that’s at the core of AI ad analytics platform Newton Research’s new agentic layer, called Unlimited Analytics. Launched on Tuesday, Unlimited Analytics contains a host of agents […]
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AI
IAB’s New Advice On How To Measure AI Search Visibility
Publishers and brands alike are scrambling to show up in AI search responses, and to be described in their preferred ways. But with new AI optimization tools cropping up faster than you can say AEO, it’s hard to pinpoint which metrics are most important to track and what it even means to measure AI search […]
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AI
AI Agents Are Giving Publishers A New Way To Monetize Their Data
End-to-end agentic ad campaigns are no longer hypothetical; they’re in market. For publishers that have struggled to activate their first-party data, AI agents offer a more automated and bespoke approach to deal curation that wasn’t possible before. PubMatic and Optable are both productizing this shift with agentic tech and collaborating on a new end-to-end workflow […]
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AI
How NetApp’s CMO Turned One AI-Generated Ad into a Rethink of Marketing
When NetApp pushed out an AI‑generated Super Bowl campaign in just two weeks at roughly one tenth the usual cost, it looked like a clear victory. Then it stalled.
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AI
How HelloFresh Brought AI Creative To Times Square
Have you ever walked through Times Square and thought, Wouldn’t it be cool if these giant billboard ads could be produced by AI? This doesn’t seem like a universal experience. But for CDP Hightouch, apparently, this question was top of mind. In June, Hightouch launched a one-day Times Square activation to showcase ads that its […]
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AI
The CPO Who Used AI To Revamp A CDP And Address His Own Health
Rafa Flores’ career has come full circle. In 2016, he joined Treasure Data (which rebranded earlier this year to Treasure AI) as the company’s second-ever product hire. At the time, Treasure Data was just getting off the ground as a data management company. The company soon found an opportunity in the CDP space, a label […]
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Shopper/Retail
How Polywood’s Chief Digital Officer Increases Repeat Purchases, Sales and More
Chief Digital Officer Ben Spiegel shares how he is transforming Polywood into a lifestyle brand with better personalization and a robust in-house marketing team.
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MarTech
Evaluating Martech Through Real-World Deployment Patterns
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.