Search Results for: data
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B-to-C Events
Coachella Quests: Inside the Festival’s Gamified Scavenger Hunts
Organizers of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival are consistently on the hunt for fresh ways to keep fans on-site and engaged in everything the event has to offer, from the performances to the partner activations to the f&b.
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Shopper/Retail
Ad dollars flow in for Walmart in Q1
Retail chain behemoth Walmart reported its revenue increased 6% year over year for its fiscal first quarter 2025 ended April 30, and its U.S. ecommerce sales increased 22% year over year. Walmart also reported that its global advertising business grew 24%, which includes a 26% increase for its U.S. advertising segment called Walmart Connect. This […]
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Marketers
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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cookies
Publisher POV: Three Ways Marketing Agencies Can Capitalize on the Cookie Deprecation Delay
After continued challenges following the phase-out of third-party cookies for one percent of Chrome users in January, Google has once again delayed cookie deprecation plans. With the timeline pushed to early 2025, agencies now have more time to test targeting options to ensure that they’re prepared for the cookieless world.
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Cynopsis: Esports
Cynopsis Esports 5/23/24: Larian Studios expands; MSI breaks records; Chipotle keeps fighting
Thursday May 23, 2024 Good morning! It’s Thursday, and this is your monthly Esports and Gaming Brief. Larian Studios is doing something few people expect of any game studio in 2024: expanding. Following the commercial and critical acclaim Baldur’s Gate 3 received throughout the past year, Larian has become an example of how talented right-sized […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
Political Advertisers Promoted Polarization. Now We Need To Help Fix It
The 2016 presidential election gave Americans a taste of the disinformation, misinformation and platform manipulation that’s coming for political media. These strategies aren’t new, but tactics are more effective than ever. This year, platforms and advertisers are far more sophisticated and have greater reach, with streaming and data-driven media replacing old media that could not […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
We All Have A Role To Play In Ending MFA
Like any addiction, buying cheap impressions on made-for-arbitrage (MFA) content is a vicious cycle that feeds itself. If our industry doesn’t stop the cycle at the source, it will continue indefinitely. The need for a solution is growing as junk publishers tarnish the reputation of the open internet. We’ve even reached the point where The […]
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cookies
Retail Media Networks Are Poised to Dominate the Cookieless Landscape
Retail media networks were already becoming a powerful force, but Google finally following through on its cookie depreciation plan has made them even more desirable for advertisers. The ongoing cookie depreciation has broken a key connecting force in digital advertising. Many publishers and advertisers do not have enough first-party data to produce meaningful targeting in a post-cookie world. Retailers do not have this problem, having built up a massive database of opted-in first-party data.
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AdExplainer
AdExplainer: The Rise Of Sell-Side Curation
Audience curation is a manifestation of what the online ad industry has long been calling for: closer collaboration between partners that isn’t built on unreliable third-party signals. To curate custom ad inventory, buyers have started working more closely with the sell side. Publishers have strong insights into user browsing behavior that advertisers can use for […]
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Inside the Buy Side
Samsung Ads Unveils AI Innovations: Elevating Ad Performance and Audience Engagement
Discover how Samsung is revolutionizing advertising with cutting-edge AI and machine learning solutions. Hear from Michael Scott, Vice President, Head of Ad Sales, Revenue and Operations – North America at Samsung Ads, and Takashi Nakano, Senior Director of Business Development and Content Acquisitions at Samsung TV Plus, about the latest advancements and how they’re transforming ad strategies across platforms.