Ad Tech
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Marketers
This K-Beauty Brand Is Collapsing The Marketing Funnel To Grow Its US Customer Base
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 […]
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Marketers
Cannes-terview: Why Nespresso Prefers Unfiltered Conversations
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 […]
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The Big Story
Can Content Drive Performance?
From avoiding AI slop to achieving show-level transparency on a CTV buy, we talk through how buyers are supercharging performance by focusing on the content where they place their ads.
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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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AdExchanger Talks
Reckitt’s Digital Reckoning
You wouldn’t accept paying for a Big Mac and getting a single chicken nugget. But that’s essentially what a lot of marketers are doing with their digital ad budgets, says Reckitt’s Sameer Amin, on this week’s episode of AdExchanger Talks recorded live in Cannes.
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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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Top Women in Media & Ad Tech
AdExchanger’s Top Women in Media & Ad Tech Awards honor the full spectrum of leadership in media and advertising technology—from the C-suite to the operators, data scientists and product builders driving results at every level. As the industry transforms, these are the women not just navigating change, but architecting it. Nominations are now open.
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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 […]