Tech Stack
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AI
Sorry, LLMs – Congress Might Make It A Whole Lot Harder To Train On Copyrighted Content
AI bots are hungry. They’re scraping information found on passports and credit cards and training on novels without authors’ consent. Even fanfiction has been used to train some (presumably quite nerdy) bots. But a bill proposed in the Senate a few weeks ago could change that.
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AI
Keep Your Audiences Coming Back for More
From Apartment Therapy’s sponsor-backed tools to MotorTrend’s interactive awards and Digital Trends’ AI gamification, publishers are finding fresh ways to keep audiences engaged. Here’s how they’re turning stickiness into loyalty—and loyalty into revenue.
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AI
Olyzon.tv Sees Through The CTV Chaos Using Contextual AI
When Jules Minvielle, co-founder and CEO of Olyzon.tv, launched his third ad tech startup, CTV’s rise and AI’s rewriting of ad ops were too significant to ignore, and he built it to converge the two.
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AI
Cloudflare’s AI Tollbooth: Innovation or Gatekeeping?
When Cloudflare announced it would start blocking Perplexity AI’s stealth crawling, it became a formidable gatekeeper of the open web.
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Inside the Buy Side
Three Opportunities To Improve Marketing Measurement In Uncertain Times
A modern measurement standard must fuse the granular, causal truth with a strategic outlook, operating at the speed of the market. Here are three considerations to ensure your measurement approach is primed to fuel success.
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AI
SiriusXM’s Brittany Warren Dishes On Offshoring Strategy And Managing Third-Party Vendors
After elevating through a company merger and several promotions, Brittany Warren, Director of Client Services at SiruisXM, now focuses on managing offshoring and emerging solutions.
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AI
What Is llms.txt and Why Should Ad Ops Care About It?
llms.txt is the velvet rope between your content and AI crawlers. Here’s how ad ops can turn it into AI-safe inventory, enforce compliance, and turn crawls into cash.
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Shopper/Retail
Google’s AI summary decreases retailer web traffic
With Google’s AI summary, consumers are less likely to click through to websites, a Pew Research study finds. A new Pew Research Center study confirms what retail marketers have likely known for the past year: When Google shows consumers an artificial intelligence-generated summary at the top of search results, they are less likely to click […]
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AdExplainer
Why You Should Know (And Use) The Marketing Efficiency Ratio Metric
“In the year of the lord 2025, we do not use ROAS.” That was the position of one agency media buyer during a conversation about the Marketing Efficiency Ratio (MER). The data-driven advertising metric has been around for many years but is now reaching mainstream or at least revered status. That is an exaggeration, of […]
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AI
AI Can Do Your Job Better Than You Can (Well, Actually, It Depends)
There’s understandable anxiety about generative AI handling tasks that people used to do. But just because someone is using generative AI to churn out marketing copy or creative doesn’t necessarily mean the results are any good. Like any other tool, knowing how to get the most out of a large language model takes time and […]