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The long-awaited Googlebots are here. Which is to say, Google on Wednesday announced the full availability of its new agentic AI tools, called Ads Advisor and Analytics Advisor. Google debuted the two in-platform chatbot solutions at Google Marketing Live in May and is now rolling these bots out to all English-language accounts, Google VP of […]

A new survey from Forrester suggests that many B2C CMOs are planning to make the customer experience (CX) their top priority in 2026 — a notable shift from last year, when CX didn’t even crack the top five priorities in the same survey.

Jeff Cohen, Skai’s new chief business development officer, unpacks why the smartest retailers and brands are already connecting the data dots and rethinking their playbooks for the AI era, even though the shopping bots aren’t quite there yet.

Low-quality, AI-generated content – or AI slop – is flooding the open web. The entire digital ecosystem is adapting to the challenges that generative AI’s exponential growth presents.  As someone who spends a lot of time thinking about media waste and ROAS, I’ve seen how easy it is for bad actors to spin up thousands […]

  Christine Foster, Senior Vice President of Kroger Precision Marketing Powered by 84.51°, offers her insights on redefining what “full-funnel impact” really means in retail media. Why is it important to connect upper-funnel brand awareness efforts with lower-funnel sales activation? It is important because consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands are dealing with complex challenges that […]

  By Crystal Foote, Founder and Head of Client Partnerships, Digital Culture Group (DCG) For years, personalization was the ultimate promise of digital advertising: serve the right message to the right person at the right time and you win. For a while, that held true. But in today’s hyper-automated, AI-saturated marketplace, where every brand claims […]

 Former Havas Media executive Michele Madaris, now Media Director of Boathouse on the agency side, believes media buying is at an inflection point. She explains why the future belongs to strategists who can unify creative intent with commercial precision. You say media buying is at an inflection point. Why is that? Media buying is at […]

What makes this updated guidance on AI ethics different is its shift in perspective. The PRSA document reframes PR pros as active governors of AI adoption rather than cautious users.

Inefficiency is baked into the programmatic supply chain. Between invalid traffic (IVT), bots, flawed targeting approaches that need to be adjusted midflight and ad tech taxes collected by middlemen along the way, brands spend a lot of money without seeing a return. But AI can help cut out some of this programmatic waste, said Caroline […]

The current disruption is temporary. Publishers who adapt AI strategically will emerge stronger when the market rebalances. AI presents the latest challenge. The real battle is for market position when things stabilize.