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Marketers
Why Shipt, The Target-Owned Same-Day Delivery Service, Added Yahoo As Its DSP
For this week’s edition of the AdExchanger Commerce Media Newsletter, I caught up with Julio Loredo, senior director of media at Shipt, the same-day delivery service owned by Target. Loredo is in an interesting position – by which I mean the “senior director of media” title. Loredo is a marketer. He spends Shipt’s own budgets […]
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AI
Amazon Ads Introduces Agentic Functions To Its Generative AI Creative Studio
On Wednesday, Amazon introduced an agentic AI tool that brings all the image, video and audio generation capabilities of the company’s Creative Studio into its ad platform creative setup.
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Data-Driven Thinking
No More Sketchy Data: Why ‘Close Enough’ Won’t Work In Marketing’s AI Era
For a long time, marketers have gotten away with flying blind. Campaigns have been run on a patchwork of incomplete inputs across various platforms, missing key fields and rarely aligned goals. Brands didn’t question performance. As long as the top line and bottom line were fine, who cares how clean the data was? The consequence? […]
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Marketers
Best Buy Ads Dives Into Programmatic
Best Buy has decided to get its hands dirty by digging deeper into the ad tech ecosystem. Best Buy Ads, the consumer electronics chain’s retail media arm, on Tuesday announced a slate of new partnerships and new ad tech features that push it further into ad tech and data services. “There’s a recognition that the […]
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AdExchanger Talks
Shifting Gears, With The CMO Of Genesis Motor America
Long before Michigan-born Amy Marentic got into marketing – today she’s the CMO of Genesis Motor America – she wanted to be an astronaut. After graduating from high school, she went to the University of Michigan to study aerospace engineering. During her senior year, she met Colonel Charles Bolden, who piloted the Space Shuttle mission that deployed […]
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The Big Story
AI-Driven Ad Tech Acquisitions
From a $637 million PE acquisition of healthcare of a DSP to acquisitions of freshly minted startups, there’s been a flurry of ad tech deals this month. And they have one thing in common: AI.
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CTV Roundup
What’s Next for Streamr.ai Now That It’s Been Acquired By Magnite?
On Tuesday, Magnite announced it had acquired Streamr.ai, which specializes in developing AI-generated assets for small businesses to use in their CTV campaigns.
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AdExchanger Talks
Measuring The Unmeasurable With HyphaMetrics Founder Joanna Drews
HyphaMetrics had barely taken its first steps as a new startup before drawing the ire of measurement juggernaut Nielsen. Four years and several lawsuits later (including one jury trial win for HyphaMetrics), CEO Joanna Drews is more than ready to get the company moving forward again.
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AI
Pixability Introduces Agentic AI Audience Tools To Its YouTube Contextual Segments
On Tuesday, video advertising platform Pixability launched its own agentic product, which will help marketers more quickly identify and target scalable audience segments on YouTube.
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CTV Roundup
How Warner Bros. Discovery Ensures That Shoppable Ads Fit In Its Shows
There’s bigger fish to fry before broadcasters and streamers get bogged down in questions about QR codes and remote controls. Namely: How do TV studios guarantee that the products featured in these new made-for-TV shoppable moments are ones that viewers actually want to buy in the first place?
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