At POSSIBLE 2025, Megan Jones, Chief Media Officer at Digitas, rolled back the covers on scroll culture, AI shortcuts, and the strategy-first mindset brands need to stop chasing metrics and start making moments.

Google and Amazon compete for people’s time and wallets, and for advertisers’ budgets. And on Wednesday, they both kicked off their marketing industry conferences and announced a round of big ad tech news focused on how they’re trying to differentiate their offerings to the industry. Here’s a breakdown of the important takeaways from Google Marketing […]

The rise of digital media offered the promise of paying for advertising based on definable, measurable impressions. Finally, decades of basing TV and radio advertising on limited survey models were coming to an end.  While surveys left advertisers with no insight into who was actually seeing their ads, the new digital advertising environment allowed advertisers […]

At POSSIBLE 2025, Yahoo CRO Rob Wilk shared the company’s “greatest hits with new tracks” approach to reinvention—and explained why client loyalty, not hype, is the real signal of success. Yahoo’s been around for three decades. But that doesn’t mean we should mistake staying power for standing still. At POSSIBLE 2025, AdMonsters sat down with […]

Microsoft’s decision to shutter its Xandr DSP, formerly AppNexus, a pioneer in programmatic advertising, is reverberating throughout the ad tech industry.  As Microsoft itself puts it: “Our commitment to more private and personalized advertising experiences for a conversational and agentic world is not achievable with the industry’s current DSP model and, therefore, it no longer […]

Could Google’s embrace of attention metrics help the industry evolve past easily manipulated viewability measurement? Danny Zhu, director of digital and performance marketing at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) North America, thinks so. Google DV360 adding Adelaide’s Attention Unit (AU) metric as an optimization signal is “going to be a game changer for us,” Zhu told […]

This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover Nostalgia Malls, Hound Lounges and Fizz Mobs.

Scott Dobroski, VP of Corporate Communications at Indeed, demoed a real-time example of using AI for pitching the media on ChatGPT.

With fewer consumers using paper, Swingline taps into broader markets and design-forward staplers to spur sales. Swingline’s marketing VP shares more marketing tactics in a challenged category.   Swingline wants shoppers to buy another stapler. Or just one.   For years, the 100-year-old stapler brand has faced a slow, single-digit decrease in sales, along with the […]

By Allyson Dietz, Senior Director of Product Marketing, TransUnion For years, marketers have been sold the dream that first-party data is the key to everything. Own the relationship. Build direct connections. Future-proof your business. As digital privacy concerns mounted and the demise of third-party cookies loomed, the message was clear: collect your own data, and […]