Marketing

How Fanatics moved from audience targeting to optimizing campaigns for customer LTV

Fanatics Sportsbook recently adopted a different approach to its performance marketing, especially on CTV, after experimenting with ad tech outfit Cognitiv, which led it to move toward a more system-led approach.  For years, performance marketers have built campaigns around the premise of defining the ideal customer, identifying where that audience spends time, and then placing

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‘Humans at the helm, agents in the loop’: WPP is testing a buyer ageny for video, but it’s bigger bet is on governance

Marketers are nervous about agentic media buying. WPP is betting governance is the answer.  Which is why alongside the launch of its Buyer Agent for Video yesterday (June 18), it unveiled a coalition of premium media owners including Disney, Netflix, NBCUniversal, Paramount and Fox as well as standards bodies IAB Tech Lab and Prebid.org. It

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Omnicom Media rolls out research showing the need for CTV advertising to change its ways

Have you ever binge-watched a show on a streamer that carries advertising, only to see the same unskippable ad over and over again — to the point where you swear you’ll never buy that product because they’ve hounded you and interrupted your content experience?  Omnicom, via its Omnicom Media and Omnicom Production arms, plans to

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Future of Marketing Briefing: Soccer doesn’t need better marketing, just better marketers

Scott Fenton has a man bun, tattoos, and a Travis Scott sneaker collection visible over his shoulder on Zoom calls. He is also, improbably, the brand director of Chelsea Football Club — a role that, at most Premier League clubs, is still written up as a commercial function: ticketing and memberships, partnership activation, fanbase growth,

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L’Oréal accelerates generative AI content engine with fresh OpenAI deal

OpenAI’s advertising platform remains a building site, but marketers remain incredibly keen to forge alliances with the generative AI leader. L’Oréal is the latest to strike a deal, this week unveiling a partnership to give it a leg up in product discovery and to use the organization’s latest models in its CreAItech marketing production system.

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