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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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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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Addressing Addressability, With ID5 CEO Mathieu Roche

When Google reversed its decision to deprecate third-party cookies, the first word in ID5 CEO Mathieu Roche’s mind was an expletive. But it doesn’t really matter what happens with cookies on Chrome anymore. “Most of the industry has moved past the notion that cookies were good enough to target and measure advertising on the web,” […]

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ROAS? Nah. The Home Depot’s All About ROMO

Seriously, guys. Enough with the ROAS (return on ad spend) obsession. It’s time for a smarter approach to measurement that focuses on more than short-term outcomes, says Melanie Babcock-Brown, VP of media and monetization for Orange Apron Media, The Home Depot’s retail media network. When retail media took off around five years ago, retailers concentrated […]

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The Science (And Art) Of Scaling Native Ads

Native advertising has been around for a long time. But creating a native ad unit online is way more complicated than a standard programmatic placement, because multiple teams and systems have to compose it on the fly, says Priti Ohri, CEO and co-founder of startup Advertible, which describes itself as “native-as-a-service.”

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HouseFresh Clears The Air On Google’s Changing Search Experience

Publishers can no longer rely on steady search traffic thanks to zero-click AI chatbots and near-constant discovery algorithm changes made by Big Tech gatekeepers. So what comes next? That’s the billion-dollar question facing premium and longtail publishers alike. But pubs are operating under a cloud of confusion caused by outdated SEO strategies and a lack […]

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AI In Ads – And Ads In AI

Paul Longo, GM of AI in ads at Microsoft Advertising, breaks down what it means to bring ads into conversational experiences and how AI-powered tools are changing the way advertisers work. Plus: Microsoft may be shutting down the Xandr DSP next year, but that doesn’t mean Microsoft is getting out of the ad tech game.

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Making Sense of DSP-SSP Convergence

DSPs are building tools to bypass SSPs, and SSPs are trying to cut out the buy side. But the real question in the noise is whether the technology improves effectiveness, says Kara Puccinelli, chief customer officer at Nexxen, which just so happens to describe itself as an end-to-end platform.

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When AI Meets Media Quality

From one perspective, publishers are up a creek thanks to the rise of generative AI search; the impact on discoverability and traffic is palpable. But that doesn’t mean publishers can’t adapt and find new ways to make money, says Mediavine CRO Amanda Martin.

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There’s No Such Thing As An Attribution Easy Button

There are a lot of misconceptions about ad measurement. Some marketers believe media mix modeling is superior to multi-touch attribution or that it’s possible to pinpoint the exact impact of each marketing touch point on sales. (Neither is true.) But the biggest thing most marketers are wrongheaded about is in thinking there’s a single solution […]

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