Tech Stack
Grammy Gold: What the 2025 Awards Tell Us About the Future of TV Advertising
As one of the most important nights of the year in the music industry, the Grammys pulls in millions of viewers vying to see their favorite artists perform and potentially win history-making awards. For brands, it means they can reach users who fully engage with their TV screens.
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Decoder
FTC’s COPPA Rule Update—What Publishers Need to Know
The FTC has finalized significant updates to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule, marking the first drastic overhaul since 2013. These changes, set to take effect in early 2025, reflect growing scrutiny of how companies handle children’s data online.
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Tech & AI
Uplift Desk elevates its customer experience with headless architecture
After migrating its site to headless architecture, premium standing desk brand Uplift Desk increases its page speed, improves its Google search ranking and provides shoppers with a more intuitive checkout page. Uplift Desk and its shoppers are reaping the rewards of a better customer experience after the brand’s migration to a headless architecture. The December 2024 launch included […]
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Online Advertising
CTV, Retail And Measurement Will Spur Ad Tech M&A This Year
This year, expect ad tech consolidation to center on the biggest growth opportunities in advertising: retail media, connected TV and addressing the gaps in measurement.
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Tech & AI
For marketers, the TikTok contingency plan might be the actual plan
As TikTok still faces an uncertain future, publishers, advertisers, and creators brace for the ripple effects of a potential ban, exploring new platforms and strategies to maintain engagement. As a brand, the social media platform TikTok has only existed for about seven or eight years. But the past few weeks have been the roller coaster […]
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MarTech
How Marketers Can Stay Compliant and Effective Amid New Privacy Regulations
Even in regions where data privacy is not yet extensively regulated, marketers who instead build their systems to serve both the consumer and the company will earn the goodwill of their customers while preparing their business for regulations yet to come. Here are four actionable steps marketers can take to do just that.
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AI
Navigating Privacy and AI Under the Trump Administration: A Q&A with Privacy Expert, Jessica B. Lee of Loeb & Loeb
With Donald Trump now in office as the 47th U.S. president, significant shifts in consumer data privacy and AI regulation are expected. Jessica B. Lee, Chief Privacy & Security Partner at Loeb & Loeb, explores what businesses should anticipate from the FTC under Andrew Ferguson, the likelihood of a federal privacy law, and how AI regulation may evolve at the state and federal levels.
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Tech & AI
Household appliance brand SharkNinja to deploy Salesforce AI customer service agents
SharkNinja is working to level-up its customer experience with the Salesforce’s AI agent force, the brand recently announced. SharkNinja is a manufacturer of household products including vacuums, blenders, hair dryers and other appliances. The brand selected Salesforce to replatform its ecommerce sites, deploy its AI customer service agents and enhance its personalization efforts, said chief […]
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AI
An AI Solution From Jellyfish Analyzes How Brands Are Perceived by LLMs
A new AI tool from Jellyfish gathers and analyzes information from LLM queries to assess sentiment, brand perception and more.
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Branding/Marketing
AI, ‘Retailtainment,’ RMNs: Marketing Takeaways From NRF ’25
Marketing takeaways from NRF ’25 include an emphasis on AI investment, experiential in-store, the revenue potential of retail media networks and the challenges of appealing to younger shoppers.
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Behind the News
When the Clock Stops: Ad Tech Leaders Weigh In on TikTok’s Potential Ban
If the TikTok ban proceeds, the ripple effects will be profound, forcing advertisers to reallocate budgets to platforms like YouTube and Meta. As the industry braces for the next chapter in the TikTok saga, questions remain about how brands and platforms will adapt to the new regulations.