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The AI advertising agents will need their own trade group eventually. For now, though, a bunch of companies are forming the Ad Context Protocol, or AdCP. The consortium of ad tech and AI ad software vendors aims to establish standard protocols for agentic solutions across the advertising supply chain to negotiate, plan and execute media […]

Unity has a gameplan for programmatic. On Tuesday, the game engine, which has a growing advertising business, announced the appointment of Chris Feo as its new SVP of programmatic. Feo is joining Unity from Experian, where he spent nearly five years as SVP of global sales and later as chief business officer. Before that, he […]

Apple TV is losing its plus; Agentic AI is ruining the ad tech equilibrium; and Google insists that search is still solid.

People in New York City are bombarded by ads at every turn. But targeted ads? For your industry? While you’re on your way to an event for that industry? The surreality of that experience can still pack a punch, like it did last week at Advertising Week New York.

Brand safety has been broken for a long time. Kieran Geyer, a paid media manager at insurance company Prudential, is still having a lot of the same brand-safety problems today as he did years ago, he said last week during a panel at Advertising Week in New York City. And it’s pretty damned frustrating. Depending […]

The DPAA Global Video Everywhere Summit will take place on Tuesday, October 14, at Pier Sixty in New York City. Chief Marketer Network, serving as the event’s official media partner, sat down with Barry Frey, President and CEO of OOH trade organization DPAA.

Top marketers in the lead generation space are grappling with how to show up where consumers are searching, how much to use AI and how to standout in an increasingly crowded landscape. Read the takeaways from LeadsCon Connect.

A lot has changed since the mid 2010s. Smartphones, social media and streaming come to mind. And over in the ad tech world, there have been huge shifts, too, notably with the rise of AI infiltrating everything from campaign optimization to creative. Mike Hauptman, co-founder of AdLib and former MediaMath exec, is confident that the […]

Start-up brands that manage to disrupt sleepy categories can create an outsized cultural impact with the right approach. Here are five ways to gain traction.

At Shoptalk Fall, Ace Hardware’s top marketer talks about how having a clear pursuit drives all of its initiatives, from marketing content to store layout.