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What’s The Scoop On Häagen-Dazs’ Evolving Media Mix?

Practically everyone on Earth likes ice cream. (If you don’t, feel free to close this tab and reevaluate your tastes.) But for advertisers, reaching “practically everyone” is a challenge. It’s the classic “my customer is anyone with a mouth” conundrum. According to Rachel Jaiven, head of marketing at Häagen-Dazs, its audience is anyone who loves […]

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When Did Ad Tech Get So Obsessed With Outcomes, Anyway?

Talking about outcomes is practically a mandate, especially in the CTV space, where ad buyers and vendors alike are heavily invested in streaming television’s potential as a lower-funnel, performance-driving channel.

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Online Advertising

Alliant Acquires AnalyticsIQ To Scale Up Its Audience Graph

Alliant is making good on its plans to build a modern, data-driven marketing platform through M&A. The audience platform announced Monday that it’s acquiring data insights and analytics company AnalyticsIQ. Alliant declined to disclose the deal price. The acquisition was funded by Alliant’s parent company, Inverness Graham, a private equity firm that specializes in buyouts. […]

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Data-Driven Thinking

The Death Of The DSP? How Ad Tech’s Cash Flow Crisis Threatens The Entire Ecosystem

Programmatic advertising is experiencing a dramatic shift. Conversational and agentic AI are here, and their effects are already being felt. Microsoft announced the shuttering of its DSP in May, stating that the current DSP model no longer aligns with its AI-powered priorities. As ad tech barrels toward automation, companies of all sizes along the supply […]

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Data-Driven Thinking

Fresh Meat: Cannes Lion Festival In Retrospect From An Industry Novice

Early last Wednesday evening, I found myself in a closed courtyard off the Croisette in Cannes at an exclusive event co-hosted by a publisher and a tech company. Who am I and why was I there? I’m just a dude with a passion for interesting tech accompanying my girlfriend as she navigates her industry’s largest […]

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The Big Story

Why The FTC Tied The Omnicom-IPG Merger To Brand Safety

The FTC approved the Omnicom-IPG merger, but with a brand-safety caveat: The agencies cannot create agency-level blocklists of any media that’s political or ideological. With Ad Fontes CEO Vanessa Otero, we unpack the consent order’s ramifications.

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Marketers

US Bank Is Using Synthetic Audiences To Generate Real Customer Insights

The scene: Sitting on a large wicker sofa 30 feet from the Mediterranean Sea drinking Perrier in the Riviera sunshine and talking to the chief marketing officer of a bank about generative AI, synthetic audiences and creative optimization. That’s how one rolls in Cannes. But rolling back the clock to 2023, which is when Michael […]

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Data-Driven Thinking

Cannes Lions 2025: A New Era Of Tech-Enabled Creativity And Collaboration

In 2025, the Cannes Lions festival entered its third era of creativity. The first era focused on the creative itself: the work that inspires consumers to change their behavior. Then media entered the mix, and the creativity tent grew to include how publishers, platforms and brands cultivate consumer engagement. This year, it was clear that […]

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The Big Story

The Human Cannes

From Cannes Lions, our editorial team discusses the mix of perspectives on the ad industry’s application of AI: the opportunity, the hesitation and the predictions of how it will disrupt marketing.

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Data-Driven Thinking

Retail Media’s Growing Pains: How To Push For Transparency Before The Bubble Bursts

We’ve seen this movie before. A new tech-fueled, transformative business opportunity emerges; irrational exuberance takes over; and the bubble ultimately bursts. This is what happened 25 years ago with the dot.com era and then, much less spectacularly, with the programmatic, personalized digital advertising era and its poster boy for bad behavior, retargeting. When it comes […]

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