Tech Stack
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 FragranceNet Weighs the Cost of RCS Marketing
The newer form of text marketing, rich communication services, delivers more engagement from shoppers but a richer price tag for retailers.
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AI
The Agentic Media Buying Platform That Says The Less AI, The Better
Everywhere you look, a new agentic measurement tool seems to have sprung up. Agentic execution layers, on the other hand, are harder to come by, according to Nathan Venezia, founder of Concord. (As you may have guessed, Concord, which is based in France, is a platform for agentic media executions.) “I’m not going to say […]
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AI
At Its First-Ever Cannes, OpenAI Says ‘We Are Clearly In The Advertising Business Now’
OpenAI didn’t make its Cannes Lions debut from a Croisette rooftop or in a branded beach club. Instead, the company summoned a small group of reporters late Monday morning to a semi-secluded outdoor patio located a roughly 15-minute walk from the festival’s main center of gravity. It was a rather sedate way to unveil what […]
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Shopper/Retail
How Helzberg’s New Product Data System Drives Customer Acquisition
Fine jewelry retailer Helzberg increased online sales by 25% and accelerated product launches after implementing a new data asset management system.
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AI
How A New MCP Is Helping Advertisers Bet Bigger On YouTube
YouTube doesn’t have an official MCP server, so third parties have had to take matters into their own hands. On Wednesday, video advertising platform Pixability joined the conversation with the launch of a Model Context Protocol-enabled agent built specifically for YouTube ads that allows clients to integrate Pixability’s proprietary YouTube intelligence and data into their […]
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AI
Ad Revenue Stands To Grow By 8.9% This Year – And AI Might Be Why
WPP Media released its annual global midyear forecast on Tuesday, and the report’s central theme should be enough to give pause to anyone who paid attention in history class.
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AI
This AI ‘Brain’ Wants To Get Rid Of The Grunt Work In Creative Campaigns
Agentic systems and the scarecrow from “The Wizard of Oz” have more in common than you might think: They’re both in dire need of a brain. At least, Innovid thinks so. Last year, Mediaocean-owned Innovid, which, these days, describes itself as an omnichannel ad platform, came out with an orchestration layer to connect fragmented data […]
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AI
StatSocial’s New AI Tool Digital Twins Is Helping Shepherd To Pressure-Test Audience Insights
Finding the right audience is hard. Finding an audience that barely exists in traditional research panels is even harder. That’s the challenge agencies face when clients want insights into highly specific consumer groups, such as politically independent news subscribers or niche investor communities. Recruiting those audiences can take weeks and cost thousands of dollars, often […]
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Shopper/Retail
Fenty Strategizes To Rank in Agentic AI Platforms
After noticing a ‘seismic shift’ in consumers using agentic platforms, Chief Digital Officer at Fenty Beauty Brands shares pillars of how the brand is adapting to the shopper’s new way of discovering products.
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Marketers
5 Tips for Addressing the Pivotal Changes in B2B Buying Models
Too many B2B vendors have yet to modify their sales models in response to gen AI search habits, marketplace turbulence and economic volatility. For those sellers unsure of how to address GTM changes, Forrester offers some suggestions.