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Inside The Fall Of Oracle’s Advertising Business
By now, the industry is well aware that Oracle, once the most prominent advertising data seller in market, will shut down its advertising division. It is an ignominious end for Oracle Advertising, a part of the Oracle Data Cloud (ODC) that, at one point, consisted of top players in the category, including Datalogix for offline […]
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Ally Tees Up A Fortnite Golf Experience To Promote Its Sponsorship Of Women’s Sports
Traditional sports sponsorships only go so far in today’s fragmented media landscape. Marketers need to engage sports fans outside the games themselves, and they need to look beyond TV to court the youths, who have never been tethered to cable. That’s where video games come in. Since 2023, Ally Financial has partnered with youth marketing […]
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United’s New Ad Network Has Programmatic On Its Flight Plan
United Airlines really wanted everyone who traveled to Cannes this year for the Lions festival to know it has a media network now. Before takeoff on the 7:50 p.m. overnight Saturday flight from Newark Airport to Nice, France, an ad for Kinective Media, which is the name for United’s new media network, played on every […]
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GARM And Ad Net Zero Release Standards To Measure Carbon Emissions From Media
It’s hard to manage what you can’t measure. Which is why the WFA’s Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and trade organization Ad Net Zero have spent the past year developing a framework for tracking emissions. The Global Media Sustainability Framework, which was announced Monday during a panel at Cannes, is the first iteration of […]
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The ANA Says Advertisers Are Spending Way Less On MFA – But Programmatic Ain’t Fully Transparent Yet
One year ago, the Association of National Advertisers released the first part of its Programmatic Media Supply Chain Transparency Study. But it really should have been named The Lack of Programmatic Media Supply Chain Transparency Study. Because that report, and the follow-up study published in December, uncovered an appalling amount of programmatic waste, including $22 […]
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Why It Matters That Google Merchant Center Is Ditching The Word “Feed”
Some ecommerce pros were surprised recently to log in to their Google Merchant Center and see the “Feeds” tabs gone. The disappearance of the word “Feeds” is a sign Google is becoming less reliant on information provided by the brand or merchant to inform its marketing services.
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Advertisers Are Misinformed About The Ad Industry’s Misinformation Problem
Advertisers that rely on ad tech vendors to protect them from buying ads on shoddy, offensive or deceptive news content are … in for some bad news. Researchers at Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University recently set out to determine how often ads are served to sites that publish misleading stories, propaganda or conspiracy theories […]
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The New York Times And Instacart Integrate For Shoppable Recipes
The New York Times and Instacart walk into a kitchen. That’s not the start of a bad joke. It’s an actual partnership. On Tuesday, the two companies announced a deal to make New York Times Cooking recipes shoppable via Instacart, of course, and to embed its cooking videos within the Instacart app. The deal is […]
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Ally Financial On Why Marketing And IT Need To Be BFFs
If you’re a brand that wants to in-house its programmatic media buying, the best thing you can do is to make friends with the IT guys. Because without buy-in and support from the internal tech team – whose job it’ll be to handle most of the technical development of any mar tech or data warehouse deployment […]
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YouTube Is Invading The Living Room
TV programmers have long looked down their noses at YouTube. User-generated content isn’t as premium as their prestige programming, or so their argument goes. YouTube, for its part, has long attempted to pitch itself to advertisers as not only just as good as TV, but, in many cases, more effective. At its Brandcast presentation on […]
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