Tech Stack

The Guardian is taking its programmatic business global. The publisher announced today it’s consolidating its programmatic advertising operations across the UK, U.S., and Australia into a single, unified global team.

Major holding companies and even some publishers are pulling back from LGBTQ+ issues and content under mounting political pressure. Zach Rosen, founder of Supernova, an ad tech growth consultancy, is running in the other direction. He created Supernova PRIDE Summit, the first of its kind, during Cannes Lions.

Spanish airline Iberia wanted more control over its campaign planning and creative optimization. To accomplish that goal, it tapped AI personalization platform Clinch, adopting a self-serve model.

Among the CMOs recently surveyed by Boston Consulting Group, 79% are confident that the technology will improve their outcomes, up from 71% two years ago. And use cases are becoming more sophisticated.

With the programmatic curation trend, a large share of budgets has consolidated around deal IDs. This is a problem because deal IDs don’t work very well. For The Trade Desk, about 90% of campaigns using structured deal IDs via private marketplaces don’t scale at all. Often they’re stuck spending less than $10 per day, TTD […]

LiveRamp’s Travis Clinger shares that, as cookies fade and AI rises, marketers face a critical opportunity: leveraging data collaboration and authenticated identity to unlock omnichannel performance.

Nearly 44% of a retailer’s web traffic that ends in conversion comes from paid or organic search. Google’s new AI Mode will change that. Google is rolling out AI Mode, a chatbot-style interface within search, the behemoth announced at its annual developer conference, Google I/O in May. Instead of shoppers typing in a few keywords […]

Many people stumble into ad tech from entirely different career paths. But Angelina Eng, a 30-year industry veteran who serves as the IAB’s vice president of measurement, addressability and data center, has been swimming in the ocean of digital advertising from the very beginning.

MarkeTeam.ai uses AI agents to help marketers cut costs, improve strategy and focus on real results—not just content.

If there’s one buzzword Jay Friedman would pay money to never hear again, it’s “brand safety.” Technically, that’s a buzz phrase, but fair enough. Not that brand safety isn’t important; it is, said Friedman, who stepped down as CEO of digital marketing services agency Goodway Group earlier this month, handing the reins to Chief Growth […]