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It’s been a tough couple of years for people working in media and marketing, including mass layoffs and uncertainty about the future of ad tech. But while these changes have been difficult for those involved, they’ve also created fertile territory for individual consultants with in-demand expertise. These are people who either left their jobs or […]

Many marketers are – let’s say – generally excited about the promised targeting power of CTV.  Yet, for political advertisers, many are staking their careers on this burgeoning new medium. Indeed, candidates can’t wait for CTV to sort out all of its fundamentals in the near future.

It was 2019 and the email marketing program at retail chain Aaron’s needed a reset. The list was dirty. The sends were batch and blast. And the content was dry, said Hody Crouch, vice president of data and analytics at the lease-to-own retail chain. “At the same time, the company was digitizing. We were moving […]

AI tech is galloping ahead like a runaway horse, with innovation racing rampant and regulations struggling to catch up. The latest spicy AI scandals involving Scarlett Johansson, Drake, and FKA Twigs reveal the AI frontier is still the wild wild west. What does all of this AI chaos mean for digital media, and is it time to call in the sheriff to get things in check?

Pat LaCroix, EVP of Strategic Partnerships at Seekr notes that the oversaturation of disinformation fosters skepticism for both consumers and advertisers. But the rise of AI presents a potential solution to the spread of misinformation. Through natural language processing and machine learning, AI tech offers promising solutions for detecting and mitigating false content. 

HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence issued a Security Threat Alert this morning, detailing a scheme it calls Merry-Go-Round. At its peak, Merry-Go-Round reached 782 million fraudulent bid requests daily, cleverly evading detection through a sophisticated cloaking mechanism.

As digital advertising braces for the post-cookie era, publishers face significant revenue challenges and a $10 billion shortfall. The rise of privacy concerns and cookieless tracking calls for innovative solutions like Ops Mage, an AI-driven contextual targeting tool that promises precision, performance, and privacy compliance. Explore how Ops Mage can redefine engagement and monetization.

Digital payment platform PayPal is planning to build an ad business unit powered by the data from the hundreds of millions of shoppers that use the platform to pay for online purchases. This week, PayPal announced it hired Mark Grether as senior vice president, general manager, PayPal Ads. His role will be to build an […]

Luggage brand Samsonite knew it was too dependent on its wholesale channel and wanted to make direct-to-consumer sales a larger part of its revenue. After replatforming eight of its brands onto the Salesforce Storefront Reference Architecture, Samsonite did just that.   Samsonite’s brands had become too siloed, said David Oksman, Samsonite’s vice president of marketing […]

According to Statista, in 2023, global spending on programmatic advertising reached $558 billion. By 2026, this number will likely grow to $700 billion. Also, the share of programmatic advertising in digital spending worldwide has increased since 2020.