Tech Stack
This Startup Makes Sure That AI Tools Aren’t Out Of Reach For SMBs
Pie, an AI-powered growth platform for SMBs, aims to give smaller businesses affordable access to AI tools that often cater to larger businesses with bigger budgets.
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AI
How Does Agentic Buying Work In CTV?
Given how much agentic AI pervades nearly every conversation these days, it’s easy to overlook how nascent the technology still is, particularly when it comes to buying ads on connected TV.
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AI
PubX Raises $5 Million And Buys Digital Governance Startup Compliant
Andrew Mole, the CEO and co-founder of UK-based agentic AI ad startup pubX, has a theory about why agentic ad tech has a tendency to hallucinate. In his view, it’s not the LLM’s fault. Hallucinations happen when a large language model queries a demand-side platform that doesn’t know how to talk to an agent. Legacy […]
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Shopper/Retail
Whoop’s Marketing Shift Drives Hypergrowth and Demand Planning Woes
The brand’s marketing pivot to everyday consumers fueled 85% member growth and a surprise 300,000-unit holiday order. Here’s how the health wearable is retooling planning to keep pace.
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AI
Programmatic IO: Insurers Are Building Ad Tech’s AI Accountability Layer
Agencies and marketers discussed the future of AI governance at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO NYC this week. The main takeaway? Expect insurers to play an increasingly important role in managing AI compliance.
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AI
OpenAI Says Sponsored Chats Are The Future. The Future Of Publisher Monetization Isn’t So Clear
Sponsored agents are the future of AI-native advertising experiences, according to Colleen Coulter, global ad solutions lead at OpenAI. But what do LLMs owe publishers?
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AI
This Creator Marketing Platform Has Gone Fully Agentic
Upfluence guides brands through the process of finding and executing creator partnerships using its agentic system, Jaice.
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Shopper/Retail
Custom Ink Bets on Gratitude, Earned Media to Grow Its K-12 Business
The custom swag brand pitched local media to amplify its “Unsung Heroes of School Spirit” campaign. Custom Ink has 100,000 K-12 customers a year, representing a meaningful share of its sales, its CMO says.
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AI
SQREEM Touts The Large Behavioral Model – Not The LLM – As The Winning Predictive Engine
Rather than relying on machine learning, SQREEM uses a mathematical AI model to track how systems change over time and predict audience behavior.
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AI
Inside Mortgage Solutions Financial’s ChatGPT Ad Experiment
Dawn Dawson, CMO at Mortgage Solutions Financial, has started using ChatGPT as both an ad channel and an education layer to overhaul how her team finds and qualifies demand.
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Profiles & Campaigns
The UPS Store SVP: Character Marketing Isn’t Just For B2C
In this Q&A, The UPS Store’s Senior Vice President of Marketing shares that small-business owners relate to empathetic characters just like everyday consumers, and that can lead to a sticky marketing campaign.