Marketing

CloudX Hits GA With Plans To Rewire The Mobile Ad Stack Using AI Agents

CloudX – a startup co-founded by the guys who co-founded MoPub and MAX – is using LLMs agents, “intelligent monetization” and a trusted execution environment to make the mobile ad stack behave more like programmable infrastructure than another AI-powered SSP. That’s a lot of zeitgeisty buzzwords all at once.  So, here’s the jargon-free condensed version: CloudX CEO

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When Does AI Help Vs. Hurt Marketing? This Video Ad Platform Aims To Draw The Line

Marketers claim they want control over creative production, but the moment a new AI tool hits the scene, they’re suddenly all about convenience. AI video ad platform Airpost, which launched last month, does its best to find that happy medium. Today, it announced $4.1 million in seed funding. If your company wants to give up

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IAB CEO David Cohen: ‘The Health of the Publisher Community is Critical to the Health of Our Overall Business.’

On stage, IAB CEO railed against AI companies. “Every single company that is training and building these AI tools without compensating publishers is free riding on their investments,” he said. “Free riding isn’t just unfair. It’s stealing.” The post IAB CEO David Cohen: ‘The Health of the Publisher Community is Critical to the Health of

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As The Economy Goes, So Does Ad Spend; Microsoft AI Plays Nice With Pubs

GDP vs. ROI One long-standing concern among investors is that ad-dependent businesses – even the largest ad platforms – are tethered to the economy. When growth slows, advertising budgets are among the first to be cut. But, according to a piece in The Economist, the biggest Big Tech giants have been making the case that they’ve broken

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Future of TV Briefing: How AI agents prime TV advertising for ‘premium automation’

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how agentic AI can enable TV networks to automate the sales of complex linear TV ad packages. ‘Premium automation’ Disney’s next CEO, YouTube’s TV measurement issue, Paramount+’s plans and more ‘Premium automation’ This week we had NBCUniversal’s Ryan McConville on the Digiday Podcast to talk about the

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Here’s what else a $8M, 30-second Super Bowl budget can purchase in 2026

The Super Bowl — arguably the industry’s most coveted ad opportunity — is back this Sunday. Already, advertisers have shelled out up to $8 million for a 30-second spot. Notably this year, marketers are also grappling with plans to spend around the Winter Olympics and World Cup. Ad prices continue to climb, with brands like

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