Digital Marketing

The state of ad creative: The evolution of production and optimization in the age of AI and automation

This State of the Industry report, sponsored by Celtra, explores how brands and agencies produce and optimize creative digital campaigns to drive performance. Across the digital media landscape, marketing teams are adapting to diverse advertising platforms and handling increasing content demands — all while expediting speed to market without compromising quality. In the process, brands

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Car brands from BMW to Volkswagen lean into in-car gaming

With a potential slowdown in car sales on the horizon — and as drivers’ eyeballs move from roads to screens — automotive brands including BMW and Volkswagen are leading an industry-wide charge into gaming. Although car manufacturers such as Tesla have flirted with gaming in the past, the romance between automobiles and video games is reaching

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How creator-owned teams are shaking up the esports industry

Creator-owned teams were once seen as a potential pathway for esports to escape its reliance on sponsorship revenue. But as the business model matures, it’s become clear that creator ownership is just a particularly effective way to get brands’ attention — not a panacea for the industry’s ills. Although prominent esports teams such as 100 Thieves

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Boosted by sports interest and AI, Stagwell expands AR platform with first MLS partnership

Stagwell’s augmented reality company ARound inked its first partnership with Major League Soccer, as artificial intelligence and sports growth fuel opportunities across games and live events. In partnership with Target, ARound on Aug. 24 launched an expansion of its stadium platform to add Minnesota United FC at Allianz Field. With this launch, fans can interact

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‘Isn’t this more of a quid pro quo?’: Confessions of an agency CEO on kickbacks in retail media landscape

Retail media networks are seemingly big business.  The ad industry’s latest shiny object is expected to account for almost a quarter of all U.S. media ad spend in 2028, according to eMarketer. At this point, there are more than 200 retail media networks and counting as retailers look to cash in on their customer data,

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Media Briefing: The 2024 media glossary, pt. 2

More media trends, defined Last week, we covered many of the media industry’s trending words, largely related to third-party cookie alternatives and the unsavory parts of the programmatic ad market. In part two of the 2024 Media Glossary, we tackle many of the terms you may have heard in conversations about generative AI as well

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InfoSum and WPP’s Choreograph strike an umbrella clean-room data partnership

They say there’s no such thing as coincidences, right? You can decide for yourself if the new partnership struck between data collaboration firm InfoSum and WPP’s data and tech platform Choreograph (run mostly through GroupM) coincides with the recently announced move by Brian Lesser to return to GroupM as global CEO from his most recent

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Future of TV Briefing: ViX COO Rafael Urbina on why TelevisaUnivision’s streamer is loading up on live sports

This week’s Future of TV Briefing features a Q&A with ViX COO Rafael Urbina about TelevisaUnivision’s deal to stream MLB postseason games and how live sports is boosting the streamer’s ad-supported subscriber base. The streaming game Primetime TV’s upfront slump, Peacock’s Olympic subscriber haul, Chick-Fil-A Plus and more The streaming game Having wrapped its “Summer

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Why Wendigoon and other creators are taking talent management into their own hands

As more digital creators look to expand beyond the content grind, some are finding that their skills and knowledge are a good fit for the world of talent management. On Tuesday, YouTuber Isaiah “Wendigoon” Nichols became the latest prominent creator to enter the talent management business by announcing his part-ownership of the talent management firm

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