Tech Stack
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Trends
The OOH Upgrade You’ve Been Waiting For: ‘Smart’ Billboard Trucks that Drive ROI
What has four wheels and a tech stack so savvy it can geo-target customers, prove performance in real time and deliver a 45 percent boost in retail foot traffic? We’re talking LED billboard trucks, those small but mighty screens on wheels you couldn’t miss if you tried — and that’s exactly the idea.
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AI
Indie Agency Wpromote Dishes On How It’s Testing New Agentic SSP Tools
Ad agencies have an overwhelming amount of buying tools to choose from. And they’re increasingly relying on AI to focus just on what will help them meet their clients’ needs. Between general-purpose and specialized DSPs, social platforms, CTV environments and direct publisher deals, agencies have to stitch campaigns together across a variety of fragmented systems. […]
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AI
The Agentic Marketplace Is Here. Where Does That Leave DSPs and SSPs?
Swivel and Olyzon’s new partnership brings buy-side and sell-side agents together as early examples of an agentic marketplace.
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AI
Basis Wants To Help Marketers Bring Agentic AI Into Media Planning
The new ad automation platform from Basis puts campaign planning into the (figurative) hands of AI agents. But it’s just a starting point.
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AI
Wyndham And Goop Are Using AI To Scale Creative And Avoid Burnout
AI performance marketing platform Adora provides clients Wyndham and goop with real-time feedback and campaign refinements.
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Campaigns
Education Platform Pearson Uses AI To Rewrite Its Past
Pearson is trying to outrun its past. For many people, the education brand reminds them of a logo on the back of a high school chemistry textbook. But the company sees itself as a lifelong learning partner spanning schools, universities, vocational training and the workplace. And Pearson wants to shift the audience’s perception. Pearson’s first […]
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Shopper/Retail
Wayfair CMO Shares Social Marketing Highlights Ahead of Shoptalk
Wayfair’s top marketer Paul Toms discusses how the company moves fast to hop on social media trends, plus recent generative AI customer experience wins.
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AI
How Red Roof Is Bringing In More Customers With Zeta’s Voice-Activated AI Agent
Hotel chain Red Roof is using Zeta’s new voice-activated AI agent to guide its campaign creation, deployment timing and audience development.
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Shopper/Retail
‘Treat’ Culture, COVID and Lack of 5-Year Plan Colors Gen Z Spending
NRF digs into Gen Z consumer spending patterns, plus forecasts 4.4% retail growth in 2026, in annual State of Retail & the Consumer event.
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AdExplainer
What Does A Beta Test Of A Sell-Side Agent Look Like?
Using machine learning to automate and optimize ads is familiar to publishers. For years, this tech has helped publishers tune floors and serve the best ads behind the scenes. Now, publishers are exploring automation and optimization through agentic AI. Many publishers have identified a similar use case: sales agents who actively make decisions in the […]