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Shoppers coming to a retailer’s site from an AI source spend 53% more revenue per visit and have a 60% higher conversion rate than shoppers from a non-AI channel.

Trade group IAB published “Measuring Visibility in the AI Era,” which sets out to codify the definitions, quality criteria and standards relevant to measuring GEO, AIO and other aspects of non-paid AI-powered discoverability. CM looks at why now and what the group is prioritizing.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]