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Finding the right audience is hard. Finding an audience that barely exists in traditional research panels is even harder. That’s the challenge agencies face when clients want insights into highly specific consumer groups, such as politically independent news subscribers or niche investor communities. Recruiting those audiences can take weeks and cost thousands of dollars, often […]

After noticing a ‘seismic shift’ in consumers using agentic platforms, Chief Digital Officer at Fenty Beauty Brands shares pillars of how the brand is adapting to the shopper’s new way of discovering products.

Too many B2B vendors have yet to modify their sales models in response to gen AI search habits, marketplace turbulence and economic volatility. For those sellers unsure of how to address GTM changes, Forrester offers some suggestions.

The bots are hungry for content. The content owners are hungry for monetization. And the IAB Tech Lab is working on new recommendations that will – hopefully – help everyone get fed. On Wednesday, the Tech Lab released its guidance for bot management strategies, which is open for public comment until June 26. The purpose […]

The vast majority of CMOs and communications leaders surveyed in a report from Arketi Group and executive search firm JM Search described their relationships with the C-suite as positive. And 67% said that alignment with the C-suite was a top driver of CMO tenure. Yet only 38% of those surveyed felt set up for success.

Hot take: Sometimes, having more guardrails isn’t a limitation. Instead, the added responsibilities can actually make automation easier, according to Melissa Bonnick, EVP, head of programmatic for JPMorgan Chase. As a financial services company, JPMorgan Chase is beholden to stricter rules than brands in most other verticals. But those restrictions make it easy to communicate […]

For all the AI-in-ad-ops talk, plenty of publisher teams are still trapped in the grind of pulling GAM reports by hand and trying to reverse engineer why revenue dropped. At Programmatic AI in Las Vegas, Jordan Cauley, who launched a publisher monetization tech consultancy after an eight-plus-year stint as a product lead at Mediavine, made […]

Programmatic advertising has changed a lot in the nearly 20 years since the first RTB ad auction. On the surface, programmatic is just the automated buying and selling of digital ads. Under the hood, there’s a complex, high-speed auction system that decides in milliseconds which ads appear across display, video, CTV, audio, retail and other […]

Fun packaging and a unique product format is currying favor at Target for insect repellent sticker brand NatPat. The CEO/co-founder shares how marketing with Target’s logo boosts sales in all channels.

It’s the great irony of programmatic. The bidding is automated down to the millisecond, but the day-to-day work of running campaigns is still largely manual, from copying data between systems and reconciling reports to running QA checks and drafting explanations for clients when metrics don’t line up. “Inside of the platforms, it’s AI everywhere – but […]