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A quick scroll through social media video feeds would likely surface a slew of new programming types — a branded sitcom or game show, creator storytelling and ad-supported microdramas. Social media platforms used to be digital town squares, opening up interaction between brands and shoppers. Now, platforms function more as short-form entertainment hubs. The quiet […]

Dentsu has undergone a shift in top management on a global scale, with new global CEO Takeshi Sano in charge of an agency holding company that sits just under the Big Three — Publicis, Omnicom and WPP — but has taken its lumps over the last few years as it tries to stay ahead of

Publishers have spent years stuffing bid requests with more signals without knowing which ones actually move the needle. Amazon Publisher Services wants to change that. At its annual summit on Thursday, APS unveiled an expansion of Signal IQ, its bidstream testing tool first launched in 2024, that measures how signals passed through OpenRTB requests influence

The FAST channel ecosystem is providing advertisers with a sandbox (no, not that sandbox) to test new CTV formats, targeting tools and programmatic buying methods. The post FAST Content Isn’t Always ‘Premium,’ But That’s Where TV Ad Innovation Is Happening appeared first on AdExchanger.

TV piracy of sports streams is siphoning away millions of viewers. Then: Vox Media and BuzzFeed found new owners this spring, punctuating the end of the pageview era. The post The End Of The Programmatic Pageview appeared first on AdExchanger.

Some global companies are expanding AI ad production in-house, while analysts say agencies continue to provide strategy, creative direction, and specialist support. Executives from Kimberly-Clark, Catalyst Brands, and Target India told Reuters that their teams in India are using AI across parts of the marketing process. These include creating product images and videos, choosing influencers,

Walmart Connect is adding a second DSP partner: Yahoo DSP. Plus: It looks like location data is being used to spy on the military now. The post Retail Wags The Dog; Data Brokers Vs. The Military appeared first on AdExchanger.

Publishers are quietly cutting six-figure AI licensing deals on Snowflake, as the data giant positions itself as matchmaker-in-chief between locked-down news content and enterprises keen to plug reliable publisher content into their own internal AI tools via retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). For publishers, the cloud platform’s Cortex Knowledge Extensions act as a monetized RAG pipe: a