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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 […]

Fun packaging and a unique product format is currying favor at Target for insect repellent sticker brand NatPat. The CEO/co-founder shares how marketing with Target’s logo boosts sales in all channels.

It’s the great irony of programmatic. The bidding is automated down to the millisecond, but the day-to-day work of running campaigns is still largely manual, from copying data between systems and reconciling reports to running QA checks and drafting explanations for clients when metrics don’t line up. “Inside of the platforms, it’s AI everywhere – but […]

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

Advertising agencies have invested millions of dollars into their own AI-powered platforms to handle all kinds of tasks, from creative testing to audience targeting and campaign planning. An outsider to Ad Land might be forgiven for assuming all these AI tools are, essentially, the same as one another. (It probably doesn’t help that so many […]

Tom Kaneshige, Chief Content Officer at the CMO Council, explains why the strongest marketing results come from pairing machine intelligence with human judgment.

At POSSIBLE 2026 in Miami, the ad industry was over the hype around AI.  Industry experts got real about how agentic AI is actually changing advertising workflows today. And they called out the pie-in-the-sky use cases that could be longer-term possibilities for AI, but that aren’t currently – pardon the pun – possible. In conversations […]

Now that OpenAI is in the ad platform business, the next step is getting into the prove-your-ads-work business. Enter the OpenAI conversion API (CAPI), which the company announced on Tuesday along with the public launch of its self-serve ads manager, a cost-per-click bidding product (which is native to search advertisers, compared to the programmatic CPM) […]

At the 2026 POSSIBLE conference, Chief Marketer sat down with Chief Marketing and Growth Officer Esi Eggleston Bracey, formerly of Unilever, to discuss her session at the show, her forthcoming Marketer of the Year Award from AMA, her thoughts on marketing leadership and much more.

The fourth-annual POSSIBLE is in the books! AdExchanger Senior Editors Alyssa Boyle and Anthony Vargas were on the ground in Miami. Here are their takeaways from three days chatting about agentic AI in the Florida sun (other than some scattered showers). But the AI talk at POSSIBLE wasn’t just marketing hype. Ad industry insiders got […]