Tech Stack
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Online Advertising
The Trade Desk Launches Deal Desk, Its Bid To Make Deal IDs Not Terrible
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 […]
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Inside the Buy Side
The Future of Marketing Is Omnichannel—and Collaborative
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.
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Tech & AI
Google’s new AI Mode will disrupt retailers’ web traffic
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 […]
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AI
MarkeTeam.ai—Your Marketing Team’s Artificial Ad Ops Co-Workers
MarkeTeam.ai uses AI agents to help marketers cut costs, improve strategy and focus on real results—not just content.
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Online Advertising
The Jay Friedman ‘Exit’ Interview (It’s Zesty)
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 […]
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AI
What Google’s AI Mode Means for Search Traffic and Brands
Google launched “AI Mode,” a chatbot-style interface embedded into its apps, at its annual developers conference this week. The new feature stands to alter the search landscape even further, requiring brands to shift from optimizing for search to optimizing for audiences.
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ROI | Metrics
Gartner: 39% of CMOs Plan to Reduce Labor Costs and Cut Agency Allocations
According to Gartner’s 2025 CMO Spend Survey, marketing budgets as share of company revenue remain flat, and 39% of plan to reduce labor costs and cut agency allocations.
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Inside the Buy Side
What VaynerMedia’s John Terrana Wants You to Understand About Attention
At POSSIBLE 2025, VaynerMedia’s John Terrana talked to AdMonsters about what most media teams get wrong about attention—and what it really takes to build performance-driven plans that keep up with culture.
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Tech & AI
Retailers invest in AI with few gains to the customer experience
A new survey finds that most U.S. ecommerce companies rate their artificial intelligence ROI as good, even if the impact today is minimal. About a quarter of U.S. ecommerce companies that have invested in artificial intelligence say it has made a “slight improvement” to their customers’ digital experience. Yet, 97% say that this ROI is […]
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Behind the News
Amazon Joins the Prebid Party With Its Own Adapter
Amazon announced Wednesday it’s building a dedicated Prebid adapter. The move signals that Prebid has firmly established itself as the industry standard.