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The Digiday Media Buying and Planning Awards recognize companies, campaigns and technology that have been most successful in the modern media landscape. This year’s nominees leaned on emotionally driven narratives and audience-driven personalizations to deliver connected, full-funnel experiences at scale. Nominees in the Media Campaign of the Year category include Uber Advertising, which built a […]

Michael Silberman, evp, media strategy, Piano As consumer use of AI search accelerates, publishers are seeing precipitous traffic declines. According to Piano’s benchmark data across hundreds of publisher sites, search traffic dropped by 36%, revenue fell by 16% and the overall audience across all sources was down 9%.  When Google surfaces an AI-generated answer at

Brands should be able to see all of their own data. That doesn’t sound like a controversial statement. However, many ad platforms obscure parts of their clients’ data because the results are unpromising, discreditable or difficult to convey, according to Dan Larkman, CEO and founder of performance CTV tech company Keynes. Keynes’ goal is to

If there were an Olympics event for how fast someone can scroll to the bottom of a privacy policy and hit “accept,” you’d find me on the podium with a medal. But buried in those endless paragraphs are real trade-offs related to data sharing, liability and, increasingly, whether your content and data can be used

The biggest AI risk in digital advertising is probably not the one most people are talking about. It’s not creative generation. It’s not job replacement. It’s not whether AI can optimize campaigns faster than humans. The real risk is what happens when autonomous systems begin making commercial decisions without clear ownership, governance or accountability. That

Meta AI is opening the door for hackers; Does performance marketing work for luxury brands?; and advertisers still don’t trust their agencies much. The post Meta’s Customer Disservice Bots; Paying For Performance appeared first on AdExchanger.

Publishing execs aren’t convinced if — or when — Google Zero will happen, but they’re preparing for the worst anyway: a future where Google search stops driving traffic to their sites, and becomes a destination for information. The threat of this zero-click future feels more real after Google’s last developer conference, where execs announced sweeping,