Ad Tech
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Data-Driven Thinking
Q2 2026 Was The Quarter AI Media Started To Scale
Advertising in AI-native destinations and experiences is already starting to look less like a series of experiments and more like an emerging market. Three months ago, I argued that AI platforms had started acting like media companies. Now, the conversation has already changed. It wasn’t simply that OpenAI introduced ads in ChatGPT and advertisers started […]
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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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Data-Driven Thinking
The Open Web Is Shifting From An Audience Economy To A Context Economy
The open web is moving beyond identity-based systems built around audience data to context systems that understand who a person is, where they are, what surrounds them and what’s happening right now. We already know what this next stage of open web ad tech will look like. At my daughter’s recent dance studio gala, a […]
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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 Network
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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