For marketers today, the traditional playbook isn’t cutting it anymore. Clients expect marketers to deliver hard business outcomes – and fast. With AI reshaping creative and media workflows, finance teams slashing “nonessential” spend and boards demanding accountability, the role of a marketer has morphed from a brand steward to a growth operator. Holding companies are […]

Half a dozen major merchants — Fat Brain Toys, E.l.f., Topdrawer, Schmidt Brothers Cutlery, Swingline Staplers and The Honest Company — share strategies on communicating their tariff woes and price increases. The 2025 tariff headlines have kept retailers and shoppers alike on their toes, with taxes on imports going from high to higher, to paused, […]

During Prime Day, an average household spent $156, likely over the course of two or more purchases.   U.S. shoppers spent $24.1 billion online during Amazon’s annual Prime Day sales event, which lasted four days in 2025, July 8-11, according to Adobe Analytics. Adobe’s estimate is for all of U.S. ecommerce, including purchases from Amazon […]

OpenX is courting advertisers more aggressively with the launch of OpenXSelect, the latest evolution of its curation platform, which launched on Wednesday. But don’t call OpenX an ad network, and definitely don’t call it a demand-side platform. Over the past few years, sell-side curation has gained popularity as a solution for advertisers to target high-quality […]

For this edition of the AdMonsters’ Publisher Spotlight, Kara Chiles, SVP of product management at Gannett and the USA TODAY Network gives a deep dive on the publisher’s AI strategy.

As seen time and again, a reputation marred by wrongdoing does not always ruin one’s career. Will Diddy be able to make a comeback following his verdict?

Clad in thousands of recycled red disks, Singapore’s Dream Sphere, dubbed the “Little Red Dot,” makes a powerful visual statement at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, and invites attendees on a multi-sensory journey to enjoy the power of their dreams.  Visitors step into a gallery filled with paper cutouts depicting the country’s ever-changing landscape before […]

Bid throttling is publishers’ strategic response to this overwhelming flood of bid requests and the need for more precise inventory management.

The data-driven ad industry has begun to collapse the mental barrier between brand and performance marketing. Next up is PR. The content and ad network Linkby, an Australian startup founded in 2020, connects brands with what the company deems “performance-based editorial,” per the announcement – or, in other words, publisher content that advertisers pay for […]

This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover floating pigeons, Tea Breaks and Keep It Canadian Fridges.