Trends
Economy Squeezes Back-To-School Spending, Deloitte Finds
Parents plan to cut discretionary back-to-school purchases and spend less per child. Retail marketers need to emphasize the value they provide to shoppers.
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Marketers
Attention Gets A Lot Of Attention. But What About Measuring Brand Recognition?
Getting attention is one thing. Knowing how much of it an ad needs to drive brand recognition is something else entirely. Attention intelligence platform xpln.ai is making it its business to know the difference. The startup launched in 2022 with two core products, CEO and Co-Founder Fabien Magalon told AdExchanger: an attention measurement solution that […]
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Marketers
Adobe Advertising Just Launched Its Own Custom Algorithms Product
Adobe paid $540 million to buy video DSP TubeMogul in 2016 with plans to build a programmatic advertising powerhouse inside one of the world’s largest marketing clouds. But that promise has gone largely unfulfilled during the 10 years since. Until now, perhaps. Last week, Adobe Advertising announced the general release of its own Custom Algorithms […]
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AI
MFA Ad Spend Is Increasing. Is AI Slop To Blame?
This year, the percentage of ad spend going toward made-for-advertising (MFA) sites went up instead of down for the first time since 2023.
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Shopper/Retail
How Pandora, Authentic Brands Balance Efficiency and Empathy in the AI Era
At the CommerceNext Growth Show in June, brand marketers from Pandora, Authentic Brands and G-III Apparel Group explained how they optimize AI without destroying their brands’ unique qualities and human elements.
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B-to-C Events
Crayola Grows Up: How a 123-Year-Old Kids’ Brand Is Rewriting its Playbook for Adults
With the launch of Crayola All Grown Up, the brand is making its biggest push yet toward marketing to adults.
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Marketers
This New Tool Is Built On Historical Data To Predict Marketers’ Future Performance
Hindsight is 20/20. But using hindsight to inform your future plans means better foresight, too. That’s the idea behind Blueprint, a campaign-planning tool built on over a decade of past campaign data. Strategus, the CTV-focused managed service provider, announced the launch of Blueprint on Tuesday. There are too many “disparate systems that sit alone” across […]
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Marketers
Kickbacks Takes An Outsider’s View While Bringing Ads To AI Agents
Andrew McCalip is a founding engineer at Varda Space Industries, where he oversees the manufacturing of things like hypersonic reentry vehicles and satellite buses (which are the central satellite bodies that carry a payload or instruments, not something that, like, shuttles satellites out to a launch pad). But he’s always had a taste for online […]
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Marketers
As AI Tools Multiply, Cadent And Google Cloud Make The Case For Connected Advertising Intelligence
As more brands, agencies, and media companies join in on the AI chorus of “better, faster, smarter,” the teams administering AI tools are singing a dissonant tune — managing a growing stack of AI-powered tools layered across planning, activation, measurement, reporting, and workflow management. It’s a familiar irony to anyone in advertising: Another innovation designed to […]
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Marketers
How This Disaster Relief Nonprofit Tapped First-Party Data To Reach Donors Year-Round
No matter the season or what’s in the news, there are always people in need of medical resources. But nonprofits that provide those resources receive most of their donations during moments of increased public attention, such as natural disasters. Once the public attention wanes, said Tony Morain, VP of communications at humanitarian aid organization Direct […]
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Marketers
Ad Performance And Politics Steered Brand Dollars Away From LGBTQ+ Communities – But The Pendulum Will Swing Back
While the current administration has discouraged many marketers and organizations from showing support for the LGBTQ+ community, including during Pride month. But media and ad experts say that the community’s growth in size and purchasing power will attract marketers that want to connect with this community the right way.