This is an excerpt from our Digiday+ Research report “The marketer’s guide to AI applications, agentic AI, AI search and GEO/AEO in 2026,” which explores how marketers are navigating the opportunities and challenges AI brings as it becomes an indispensable part of marketing. The report is based on a survey of 142 brand and agency […]
Ending up your first six weeks as global CEO of an agency holding company that’s been struggling with a major retention of a global client is pretty solid. So it has been for Takeshi Sano, who at the end of March took over Dentsu. On Friday, Heineken announced the winners of its global media, production
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The ad-tech firm pointed to the budding market for ads in AI chatbots and with CMOs it believes will start to treat walled gardens as “leftovers.”
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The days of agentic ad tech being only for direct ad buys are coming to an end. PubMatic has run more than 30 fully autonomous, end-to-end agentic campaigns through the SSP’s AgenticOS platform, CEO Rajeev Goel told investors during the company’s Q1 earnings call on Thursday. That’s in addition to more than 1,000 direct publisher
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The upfront is no longer just a shop window for content Amazon owns, it’s now one for its ad tech too. That’s a shift from how this period usually works. The tech pitch used to come after the content deal was done — a separate conversation, often with different people. Not anymore. “There’s this big
If a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound? And if a UID2 doesn’t work — does anyone notice? Inside a UID2 mix-up that has a publisher questioning the value of alt IDs. Then, what Kochava’s settlement with the FTC means for any ad tech company that handles location data. The post
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Created with LePub Mexico City, “Welcome Back, Paisano” uses a sharp sense of humor to help the brand move from purpose to action.
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Roku hosted several client dinners with all of the major holding companies as well as independent agencies in April, each with about 70 people per dinner. It’s the second year Roku chose intimate client dinners over a formal TV upfront event, taking a page from Paramount’s playbook. The post Roku Delivers Upfront Dinners With A
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InMobi Apple Seeds On Thursday, India-based mobile ad tech giant InMobi announced its acquisition of Apple advertising startup MobileAction. The terms were not disclosed. One rationale behind the deal – and InMobi’s desire to sharpen its Apple Ads chops – is the well-documented trend that the loss of Apple ad IDs shifted spend to Android, which
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Last month, a U.S. Special Forces soldier was indicted for insider trading — not on stocks, but on a prediction market. He had detailed knowledge of a military operation. He bet on it. The platform where he placed those bets responded to the indictment with something close to a shrug. That shrug tells you everything
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