Marketing

Gen AI sponsored Snaps offer financial education to Gen Z

Data and technology company, Experian, is set to expand access to its financial education and consumer-first AI strategy to younger consumers by integrating into Snapchat’s AI sponsored Snaps ads. The company hopes its AI-powered credit and personal finance information will help Snapchat users understand the complexities of finances through conversations with an LLM. Rather than

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CMOs Have To Be More Tech-Enabled Than Ever – And So Do Their Agencies

Advertising agencies have invested millions of dollars into their own AI-powered platforms to handle all kinds of tasks, from creative testing to audience targeting and campaign planning. An outsider to Ad Land might be forgiven for assuming all these AI tools are, essentially, the same as one another. (It probably doesn’t help that so many

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The AI Chat Ad Frontier: What LLMs Change About Brand Safety And Control

ChatGPT ads are here, and brands are testing the waters. This marks the true start of LLMs as a new advertising channel, reshaping the customer journey and introducing a new surface for brand safety and suitability. It’s a real inflection point for advertising.  Impressions, searches and even transactions that once traveled through websites will increasingly

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Netflix Gets Closer To Marketers At The Upfronts; A New CAPI Crops Up

More Ads! More! “Late Night” host Seth Meyers roasted Netflix during NBCU’s upfront presentation earlier this week, telling the audience that the streamer was hosting its own event at a pier on the Hudson River “because once a Netflix show hits two seasons, that’s where they dump its body.” Jokes aside, despite the new location

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Marketers put up guardrails as AI agents reshape programmatic buying

AI agents are evolving quickly. In theory, agents are autonomous decision makers — automating campaign creation, optimizing ad buys and drafting pitch decks. In reality, marketers aren’t ready to give up control, establishing guardrails to keep agents in check. Marketers don’t have a lot of trust when it comes to AI agents in ad buying

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‘We should own it’: Hershey’s programmatic chief on AI agents and media mix modeling

AI media buying agents steal the headlines, but some of the highest-impact applications of agentic technology by brand advertisers has been in the form of media mix modeling (MMM), systems that monitor the impact of ad investments and help to divine a marketer’s next move. Related Insights Marketing on Platforms Why brands are shifting toward

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