Tech Stack

On Thursday, French AI start-up Olyzon (pronounced “all eyes on” – more on that in a bit) announced $5 million in additional seed funding led by US-based venture capital firm Cassius Capital.

For three weeks, Marketecture Media CEO, veteran ad tech executive and podcaster Ari Paparo sat in a Virginia courtroom listening to testimony in the US Department of Justice’s landmark antitrust case against Google. 

The Trade Desk on Thursday announced its first native app built for use with a separate cloud or data warehouse. It’s called the Connector App on Snowflake. The idea is to more readily connect sales and conversion data from a brand or merchant with campaign optimization happening on TTD. “Until now, a lot of what […]

If there’s one thing the ad tech industry didn’t need, it was another three-letter acronym. But here we are. HWA. Last week, WPP Media launched Open Intelligence, touting it as the ad industry’s first LMM. LMMs, or Large Marketing Models, aren’t to be confused with LLMs, or Large Language Models. LLMs generate content, while LMMs […]

It’s the end of email marketing as we know it. Okay, that might be a bit dramatic. But there’s no arguing that agentic AI isn’t just changing the way marketers design and sell products; it’s also raising customer expectations. Marketing Cloud Next, a new marketing platform launched by Salesforce on Wednesday, is fully agentic, from […]

The Trade Desk is adding a new retail tool to its data marketplace toolkit – or a new element to its periodic table, if you will. The DSP on Tuesday announced new account features with Instacart in the US and Ocado elsewhere around the world. Those online grocery platforms’ product catalogues will be placed directly […]

Expect to see more AI-generated ads on the Amazon website going forward. On Tuesday, Amazon announced the US release of its AI-powered video generator tool after nine months of beta testing. It also rolled out an updated version of the image generator first announced in 2023. The video generator, which is now free to use […]

The Guardian is taking its programmatic business global. The publisher announced today it’s consolidating its programmatic advertising operations across the UK, U.S., and Australia into a single, unified global team.

Major holding companies and even some publishers are pulling back from LGBTQ+ issues and content under mounting political pressure. Zach Rosen, founder of Supernova, an ad tech growth consultancy, is running in the other direction. He created Supernova PRIDE Summit, the first of its kind, during Cannes Lions.

Spanish airline Iberia wanted more control over its campaign planning and creative optimization. To accomplish that goal, it tapped AI personalization platform Clinch, adopting a self-serve model.