Marketing

AI Is Bringing MFA To Social Media. Here’s How Advertisers Can Avoid It

AI has changed content creation overnight. What once required time, skill or a production budget can now be spun up in seconds.  That’s led to an explosion of low-quality, made-for-advertising (MFA) content, not just across obscure websites, but also on social platforms like TikTok, YouTube and Meta.  For years, MFA was a mostly web-based problem:

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As big brands flood the podcast ad space, startups are refining strategies to stand out

This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. With fierce competition moving in from bigger companies, brands are trying to calibrate their podcast advertising strategy to fit today’s listener habits.  Acast, a podcast monetization company whose network includes popular shows like “The Adam Buxton Podcast” and “WTF with Marc Maron,” saw its sales

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WPP estimates commerce media spending to overtake TV this year

Advertiser spending on retail, travel and financial services media channels will surpass the amounts spent globally on television this year, according to new projections from WPP. The company’s latest global ad spend forecasts predict that commerce media will account for 15.6% of global ad spend in 2025, compared with the 14.6% spent on linear and

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‘We just did the math’: The new baseline for ad tech transparency 

The open internet didn’t grow opaque because of a single bad actor or decision. Marketers chased cheap scale, and the ecosystem expanded around that demand. New intermediaries, auction layers and resellers piled on, creating complexity that no one fully intended. Even earnest transparency pushes on the demand side were diluted as the sell side sprawled

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