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The “K” in “K-beauty” stands for “Korean.” But it should also stand for “kaboom” because Korean beauty product sales are exploding internationally, especially in the US market. America is already the No. 1 foreign importer of South Korean cosmetics. And the K-beauty boom is just beginning. While K-beauty is expected to generate over 7% revenue […]

What does espresso have to do with running clubs? More than you’d think. Turns out, people who run at 6 am need something to get them out the door, and Nespresso wants to be that thing. But rather than building its own run clubs, Nespresso has been looking to embed itself in communities where coffee […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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.

With the launch of Crayola All Grown Up, the brand is making its biggest push yet toward marketing to adults.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]