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System1 ranked 2025’s most effective U.S. ads by emotional response and strength of branding.

2025 was a carousel of chief marketing officer (CMO) exits, arrivals, and shake-ups that kept the advertising world on its toes. While the CMO door keeps revolving, 2026 will once […]

Ad buyers and sellers tell us how AI will affect TV in the year ahead.

Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday research panel. It’s been another year of ups and downs in the marketing and media businesses — and Digiday+ Research tracked them throughout the year, surveying publisher, agency, brand and retailer professionals at regular intervals throughout 2025. This is a member-exclusive

This was the year AI went from being a future concern for publishers to being part of their daily reality. In 2025, generative AI was weaved into traffic analyses, licensing negotiations and product development. Clicks from search waned. AI answers increasingly replaced blue links that drive people to publishers’ sites. Some companies struck AI content

Enjoy this weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem …  The post Comic: Season’s Beatings appeared first on AdExchanger.

This story originally published on sister site, Glossy. When Pandora rolled out its first AI-powered service agent earlier this year, the goal wasn’t to showcase cutting-edge technology. It was to survive the peak holiday shopping season without sacrificing the customer experience or margins. The agent, dubbed Clara, launched as a chatbot on the brand’s website

TV ad measurement is breaking down. Privacy restrictions are mounting, traditional identifiers are disappearing, and the deterministic measurement advertisers once relied on is harder to maintain.  On this episode of Inside the Stack, Cynopsis’ Lynn Leahey speaks with Benjamin Heaton, Senior Director of Product Management at Tatari, about what’s actually wrong with TV measurement and

As programmatic means of investing in channels spreads further across the media landscape, there remain a few gaps where it’s neither efficient nor even doable. One of those less developed areas is product placement and sponsorship opportunities, which are either unwieldy or downright un-buyable. But Omar Tawakol, CEO of Rembrand, has his eye on a

AI is fueling advertising, and AI agents are running ads. As we close out 2025, take a moment to listen to this AdExchanger Talks interview with Paul Longo, GM of AI in ads for advertising, for his POV on both of those topics. The post Two Types Of AI In Advertising appeared first on AdExchanger.