Ad Tech
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CTV Roundup
AMC’s Content Chief Reveals The Three-Part Formula Behind Every Hit Show
Lightning-in-a-bottle characters, a world we’ve never seen, and something to say. AMC’s Dan McDermott breaks down what separates a hit from everything else.
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AdExchanger Talks
Forget The Shiny Objects And Focus On Fundamentals
Sharona Sankar-King, Havas Media North America’s chief data and product officer, on why marketers should stop chasing shiny AI toys and get serious about the fundamentals, including truly understanding the customer and only collecting data that’s “fit for purpose.”
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Marketers
Creative Plus Performance Equals Less Ad Waste, Says The Corcoran Group
For marketers, just knowing that an ad performed isn’t good enough anymore. To better understand the why behind ad performance, luxury real estate firm The Corcoran Group tapped an AI-based startup called mktg.ai.
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The Big Story
Picking An MMM
Marketers are rediscovering MMM. Google Meridian and Meta Robyn are among the tools gaining attention among marketers. We dive into what it means to tie your MMM solution to a search or social media giant.
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Marketers
How Georgia-Pacific Rolled Out Its Own Programmatic Media Team
You don’t need an in-house marketing mix model to know that people buy toilet paper. But you do if you want to see firsthand which parts of your media plan are working and which deserve to get flushed. At Georgia-Pacific, one of the leading global manufacturers of tissue, pulp, toilet paper and packaging products, Javier […]
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Marketers
This Marketing Consultancy Deciphers Consumers’ Brand Associations – And Doesn’t Believe In Segmentation
Marketing consultancy Triggers might know what you’re thinking better than you do. It sounds creepy, but as far as tech platforms go, Triggers has one of the less invasive methods of understanding how consumers think and feel about brands. It collects panel data from a wide swath of people through a process it refers to […]
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AdExchanger Talks
Convincing Cat Parents To Buy A $600 Litter Box
Most brands worry about competitors. Whisker is worried about complacency, says CMO Hew Loyd – specifically, the millions of cat owners who have decided that scooping an open box of poop in their home is just one of life’s little chores.
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Data-Driven Thinking
First-Party Data Is About More Than Retargeting And Audience Suppression
Brands have spent years and serious money building a direct understanding of their customers within analytics platforms, CDPs, loyalty programs, consent frameworks and CRM systems. And yet, when it comes time to make a media buy, they still hand the process over to algorithms shaped by someone else’s data. In 2011, AdExchanger asked me to […]
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Marketers
Google’s Meridian And Meta’s Robyn: A Gift To Measurement Or Trojan Horses?
Google and Meta are quietly rewriting the rules of ad measurement, and they’re doing it with open-source marketing mix modeling (MMM) tools that many marketers don’t even realize they’re using. MMM is a method for measuring the relative performance of different marketing channels. It fell out of favor because it takes a long time and […]
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AI
AI Is Spreading Inaccurate Information About Brands. This Tool Can Help Fix That
There’s an old adage that all press is good press – but, as pretty much any marketer can tell you, that isn’t always true. As more consumers turn to AI for conducting product research, brands need to pay attention to not just when they’re showing up in the results but how. Sentiment and accuracy should […]
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